Empty Uterus in a Nutshell

Hubby and I met seven years ago at my 21st birthday celebration. I was the one guzzling pitchers of beer – he was the one in eyeliner. It wasn’t love at first sight, but it quickly turned into more. We decided to get married after dating for about three years because we knew we would have a difficult time conceiving and we wanted to get started. (Hubby needs a kidney transplant and his health issues effect his sperm count).

Shortly before our wedding we tossed out the birth control and started TTC. After about two years we started to get upset and had Hubby’s sperm tested – 2million with 90% abnormal or not swimming. Crap! We were screwed.

We continued trying on our own, hoping for a miracle, while also looking into donor sperm and foster adoption. It took Hubby a long time (and a few sessions with a marriage counselor) to come around to the idea, but we finally started the process to adopt and also started trying with donor IUI.

In the end my family was horrible to us and had nothing nice to say about the child that we had chosen to adopt. We finally decided that it would be unfair to that child to bring him into another situation where he wouldn’t be fully accepted. We were crushed.

After two donor IUI cycles with BFNs we decided that maybe there was an issue with my fertility as well, and we ended up at a fertility clinic. Much to our surprise, they were willing to offer us an IVF cycle at a 60% discount (IVF was something we NEVER thought we would be able to afford before). We decided to give it one shot, and implanted three embryos and froze a fourth. All three took!

Sadly, we lost one of the babies at 10 weeks. Our beautiful twin girls were born on September 23, 2008 via emergency c-section (the whole pregnancy was rocky after we lost the triplet). They were 10 weeks premature. After 7 weeks in the NICU, one week home, and then another week in Peds for severe apnea…we finally have our little princesses home with us and we are loving every moment of it.

In March we got a HUGE surprise – we are pregnant again. All on our own this time! How did this happen? We don’t care…we’ll take it!