First Entry

I am a blogger novice, but here it goes...

My blog is about my husband and my attempts to become parents for the first time.

We were trying for 9 months before I got pregnant in Jan06, went for first scan and they couldn't find a heart beat (baby had died), so had a d&c (took remains from uterus), waited 3 months and contacted ivf doctor. Had a test to see if my fallopian tubes were ok, they were, so I had an laporoscopy (key hole surgery to check uterus, tubes and ovaries), found out I had endometriosis (legions on the uterus), which reduces my fertility, and a uterine infection resulting from the d&c. Had antibiotics to clear up the infection, and then started ivf in Sep06. (Ivf egg collection involves taking a nose spray which stops your natural cycle, a bit like the menopause, and boy was I waking up with night sweats! Then there's daily injections, given by husband, to stimulate the ovaries, then one big one 36 hours before egg collection, which involved setting the alarm for 3.30am to do the injection!) Had 19 eggs collected, got OHSS (ovarian hyper-stimulation syndrome resulting from the ovaries over-reacted to the ivf drugs, and producing toxins which cause fluid to leak from your blood into your abdominal cavaties - hmm not nice), spent 4 days in hospital swollen up like a balloon, and took about 4 weeks to make a full recovery.

Anyway, of the 19 eggs, 15 fertilised, of which 9 embryos were good, and I had 1 transferred, and the rest frozen, found out I was actually pregnant, but had excruciating pains so they did a scan and found out it was ectopic, so had it removed along with my right fallopian tube. Had another egg transfer on 8th Dec 06 (and found out that 3 other embryos didn't make it, so have 4 still frozen). Found out I was pregnant on 21st Dec, and had an ultrasound at 5 weeks to make sure it wasn't another ectopic (it wasn't, thank goodness).

So that's me up to date! Am trying to keep positive and think, after 2 failed pregnancies, that this one will be the one, but I'm finding it so hard not to worry about every twinge, and find the waiting horrendous - I'm 6 weeks pregnant, and maybe I'll not worry so much after I'm out of the danger zone at 12 weeks - so another long long 6 weeks to go...