Well its been a long time…..

Back in May, we decided to try one last time to get pregnant.  After our successful IVF in 2012 that resulted in our son, we had 6 embryos left to freeze.  Two were implanted in January 2015 and resulted in a blighted ovum (A story for another day).  After a break of a few months,we decided to try with our last three embryos.  I knew this would be, one way or another, the end of our long journey with infertility.  In many ways, I welcomed that end-whether we were blessed with another child or not.  I was tired.  I was weary.  I was ready to move past this and continue to enjoy the amazing life and gifts I had been given.  We had tried 4 times with 8 embryos.  One IVF had failed, the following Frozen Embryo Transfer had resulted in a chemical pregnancy, the second IVF in our miracle of a son, and the fourth had resulted in a miscarriage at 6 weeks due to a blighted ovum. After the miscarriage in January, I wasn’t too hopeful that this last try would be a success, yet I wanted to see this through to the end.  I wanted to give our family the chance to grow, to experience the joy of having another child.  So I dug down deep, found that spark of hope and began again.

Well, it is with great joy that I write today that we are 20 weeks pregnant.  We found out recently that we are having a girl.  Joy abounds!!!  It has not been easy.  There were multiple times during the first trimester that we though we had lost her, yet she is seemingly healthy and thriving!  I have had everything from low betas, heavy bleeding, the miscarriage of a twin, massive blood clots, measuring behind……but she has come out the other side a fighter, a survivor, and I can’t wait for her to be a part of our family.

I know people experiencing infertility stumble upon my blog from time to time.  I am hoping to write entries about all the milieu of things that happened during this try.  I hope that someone can find hope, comfort, and/or information to help them along their journey.  Stories such as these were a comfort to me during my darkest hours, and I hope my story can somehow offer that sort of warm light in the dark for people still going through infertility.  There is life on the other side…….