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So, on Sundays, I will feature a successful infertility story. My goal is for you to be inspired and discover someone you can relate to. I hope the stories warm your heart, give you some peace, and help you believe that success is entirely possible.
But, I need your help! If you or someone you know has been successful through infertility, please contact me (sfinfertility@optimum.net) and I will include your story and a link to your twitter account, facebook page and/or blog! Please include the following in your post:
- How long did you struggle through infertility?
- What did you go through (as far as treatments, different doctors, adoptions agencies, etc.)? Feel free to explain in as much detail as you would like.
- How did you handle disappointments through your cycles (natural and otherwise) or months of waiting?
- What were the ‘stress-free’ techniques that you tried that helped you get through the cycle or time (yoga, meditation, acupuncture, support through family, friends & on-line, etc.)?
- If you could give advice for couples going through infertility now, what would it be?
*Also, please include a picture and your status now [how far you are into your pregnancy or the age of your child(ren)].
*Also, with your permission, I would like to include parts of your answers in a new book I am working on where I am combining stories, techniques, and advice from the blog in one place. With any luck and determination, in time, there will be more than one edition. If you’re interested and/or have some questions, please e-mail me at the above address.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
My name is Anya Sizer and I am the mother of two IVF children born after six years of treatment , five rounds of IVF and odds of 1 in 125,000 of ever conceiving .
My journey took us through Male infertility ( azoospermia ) Secondary infertility , Immune issues , Miscarriage and early menopause to finally have my six year old daughter and my three year old son .
I now work as a fertility coach supporting and resourcing people through infertility issues , speak regularly to the media and run Londons only infertility support group .
Happy to share my story !
Anya
http://www.thefertilitycoach.co.uk
Thanks for sharing Anya! I added you link!
Hey Krissi – Thanks for the comment on my blog and interest in featuring our success story. Happy to oblige. Would you just email me so I have your email address and can send you the particulars, a photo, etc. Also, would you add me to your blogroll? I will do the same!
Thanks!
Miss MVK
HI Krissi!
I’m happy to help you out…you are more than welcome to use my story. I think I can find you a picture too if you want. Just let me know! Thanks for your kind words…they mean a lot!
And—happy ICLW!
Please feel free to use my story in an attempt to help others. You can get my complete story on my blog.
http://latebloomer13.wordpress.com
i would love to encourage others by showing them that it IS possible, i emailed you
Hi Krissi
Thanks for stopping by my blog. You have the exact same first name as my sister – so when I saw your message it threw me a bit… until I realised you were a different person!
I would be happy to send you my story – shall I email it to you? Or just post it here..
Thanks!
Thanks for stopping by my blog, coments very much appriciated!!
Would love to send my story through…thankyou.
Thanks for your message and the kind words! I will be happy to share my story hoping it bring hope to others still struggling… I will email you know with a picture!
Hi Krissi,
My kids are now 15 and 21 and I would love to share my story of my 10 year fertility quest which began in 1985 and completed in 1995…………with the gift of many years of hindsight and raising 2 kids – one biological and one adopted, I have woven a long tale.
I am a Gestalt trained Co-Active Certified Coach working with women in the transitions of motherhood and teens through the transitions of girlhood . Please let me know how I can tell my story in detail – could you send your email ?
Thanks for asking. Storytelling is helpful and healing.
Anne Belden
Sea Changes Life Coaching
I emailed you with my story and a link to my blog. Thanks for this, I love reading the success stories and am excited to have one of my own.
This is a story of a miracle w/o any fertility treatment. A huge miracle. In 1998, I had my left tube and ovary removed because of masses. The remaining right tube was clubbed. I have been infertile since 1998. From 1998 and on, I have experienced pains from adhesions, which have cause chronic and painful IBS. In 2009, I have a myoectomy and removal of the adhesions. Because of the chronic IBS pain, I was sent to Emory in 2009 for MRI’s which discovered I had a hydorsalpinix in my only remaining tube. In March 2010, this was confirmed by another ultrasound done at my doctor’s office. Fast-forward, I began to read info on clearing my hydrosalpinx naturally through Clearpassage, but never took part of it. I felt that if God wanted it healed, then it would. I decided at that point that I would visualize my hydrosalpinx clearing on it own….I know weird..right. Anyways, to make a long story short, me and my ex fiancee began dating again and low and behold one day I felt pregnant and took a test and the test came back positive. I was floored because since 1998 when I was married to this day, all my pregnancy test have all been negative. I would even hold them up to the light and take them apart. Well, there was no guessing that it was positive. I could not believe it cause I am 42 years old and have been infertile since 1998. I know God had a plan in this. Also, when I moved to my new home, I started having asthma attacks and was on asthma meds, as well as other meds for IBS so this may have helped to clear up the hydrosalpinix, but again, my faith in God has been renewed, regardless how this occurred as the chances of me ever becomming pregnant was impossible, with one tube/ovary, adhesions and a hydrosalpinix. Ironically, when i went to have my first ultrasound to confirm where the baby was attached, it was found in the uterus and the ultrasound tech said that “I guess it cleared itself” when I asked about the hydro. She asked where I had been diagnosed with the hydro and I told her Emory and her as she had done my previous ultrasound in March 2010. I am now 10 1/2 weeks pregnant and praying for my little miracle continues to thrive in me. If you have any questions on the meds that I took or the visualizations that I did, please contact me as I want to share my success story. It worked for me and I don’t want to keep this to myself. Also, I will be happy to fully document all this with medical information if needed as this is such a miracle that I want to share this with anyone that will listen.
I sent you an email, but want to make sure you got it! Thanks for stopping by my blog and suggesting I sign up as a success! Hopefully our story will give others hope
Thank you for the comment, I would love to participate. I’ll be emailing you!
I would love to participate I will send you an email!
Hi Krissi – Thanks so much for your sweet comment on my blog inviting me to participate in your success story feature. I would love to share our story, but it still feels oh so tenuous to me. I realized that although I’ve wanted this so much for so long, being pregnant is still just another step on our journey to a family. When I am holding this baby in my arms, only then will this feel to me like a success. So yes, put me on your schedule for December!
btw – you did an awesome job with Genevieve’s story. She has been such an incredible source of support for me. Much love!
Hi Krissi
Thanks for inviting me to participate, I had completed the questions and emailed them to you along with a few photo’s!
What a great job you’re doing!
Much Love!
Thanks so much for visiting my blog and asking me to share my story. I’d be happy to! I’ll send it off as soon as I get a chance.
ICLW #9
I just wanted to update everyone to let them know that my little miracle baby was born on 8/5/2011, She weighed in at 6 lbs 7 ounces. She is named Amanda and she is my pride and joy. I also wanted to add that it baffled me how I was able to become pregnant because I know in my heart it was nothing short of God’s hands. In my reflection, I had to remember the things that I prayed for when I was young. I used to pray a lot and talk to God when I was 7 to 9 years old. I remember telling him once that I wanted to have a baby when I was young and another baby when I was in my 40′s (I was 43 when my little Amanda was born) because If I did not have another child at an older age, I would regret it for the rest of my life. God never forgot my prayer nor did he forget the many other prayers I prayed as a child. I had long forgotten that prayer, but when I asked God for a miracle and that I was ready to devote my life to this child, putting aside other goals and dreams, it came true, because ultimately, she is all I want and that is all that really matters. My older daughter who is 17 and my three week old Amanda, have completed our family. As a side note, I would love to have another baby but my sister says that I would be messing with my “blessing bank” and that I am blessed that this baby is healthy and well, despite my age and other medical issues which all seem to abate when I became pregnant. To all those hoping for their miracle, I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers because I know all too well the feeling of infertility (infertile since 1998). Keep praying and hoping as God does still work miracles. If you don’t believe it, read my stories. Thank you for reading my stories.
I am a mother of 2… a 4 year old boy and a 2 month old girl. I have PCOS and Hashimoto’s (thyroid disease). I had my first child with only a little heartache, but struggled and fought to have my second. Just 6 months before I got pregnant with her I was told by a specialist that even if I could *by some miracle* get pregnant, that there was no way possible I would ever be able to carry to term again because my thyroid antibodies were way too high and would continue to cause further miscarriages. She said there was nothing left to do. Then I found out about “dessicated thyroid” medicine. IT CHANGED MY LIFE!!! Aside from finally taking away my thyroid symptoms *which no other medicine has ever accomplished* in just about 2 months, it cut my thyroid antibody levels by more than half, which is supposed to be impossible. I was then able to carry my baby girl full term. I want to shout out to the whole world that dessicated thyroid medicine is the ONLY way to go. You can get more info on the medicine at stopthethyroidmadness.com …
Anyway, I guess I coped with all the disappointments and heartaches with a combination of faith and chocolate. And blogging is a life saver for infertility. I found support and help just when I needed it most, much more effective and cheaper than therapy. After my most recent miscarriage I felt completely dead inside, and it was very difficult to “relax” during my pregnancy, especially since I wasn’t supposed to be able to carry to term and because I kept bleeding every other week. I don’t think that there’s a magical solution to make us feel better and relax through all of this, we’ve been through too much pain for too long… for me I just had to keep my head down, I stopped watching the news, I stopped reading blogs where awful things were happening, I took out my extra stress on early “nesting” (my nursery was done immediately after finding out the gender.), I chose to believe I could do it this time, I decided that even if I lost another baby… that mourning the loss before it happened only robbed me of my present day joy, and that rejoicing in being pregnant didn’t “betray” my grief at losing a baby, and wouldn’t CAUSE it to happen again. Saying that is very easy, but it was a struggle and a fight every day to choose to believe those things. Some days I couldn’t do it, and on those days I would cry *a lot* and pray and eat lots of chocolate, maybe watch a sappy movie. I had to let myself go in order to have the strength to just keep going.
I am not “done” with infertility, since I really want more children still. So I suppose I will continue to struggle this way. I fully expect there will be many days in my future with lots of tears, screaming, and bashing my head against the wall. I’m sure I will complain and bitch and moan to anyone who will listen. And I will give them support when it’s their turn to scream because STUPID AFV came instead of those two little lines. That’s how we get through. We help eachother and hold together. Infertility blogging makes all the difference.