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In September 2012, my husband and I found out the devastating news that we would not be able to concieve children naturally and would therefore need fertility treatment. I have Polycystic Ovaries (PCOS) and my husband has a high percentage of anti-sperm antibodies present making our chances of natural conception less than 5% and the need for IVF/ICSI as necessary.
In an attempt to cope and deal with what was to come, I decided to keep a blog. I had never written a blog before and had hardly read any. As we started our first cycle of IVF I also started to document my thoughts, hopes and fears on a blog. The blog was always for me and a way for me to try and deal with what was happening (I'm usually very good at bottling things up!). Like I said before, this blog was for me and I was completely new to the blogging community. Therefore, when I started being contacted by others all over the world who had read my blog it was a completely unexpected and amazing experience which filled me with many emotions. I was humbled and joyed by the fact people were finding comfort and reassurance from my posts but also incredibly heartbroken to speak with many others going through similar devastation.
Unfortunately, we kept getting more and more bad news. It seemed that everything we were trying and doing was failing, nothing was working and I found it harder and harder to keep blogging about my experience. My original blog was also called 'babyhopesblog' on Wordpress but it seemed I was losing hope altogether and blogging became too painful. Eventually, my husband and I decided we needed a break, from all the treatment and upset and away from all who seemed to be getting everything we wanted...a family. We decided to rent our home, move to Australia for a year, save up for another cycle of ICSI (we had already spent all our savings on previous rounds) and then hopefully return and feel ready to try again.
Amazingly, the night before we were due to sign over our home for a rental agreement, we found out we were pregnant (I was clearing out and found a pregnancy test. I was going to throw it in the bin but randomly decided to do it!) . We had somehow, unbelievably conceived a child naturally. Due to having no periods, we had no idea how far along we were, all we knew was that we were further along than we had even been before in our dream of creating a family.
As I am writing this now (August 2015), my beautiful son is napping next to me. He is our little miracle grow who is perfect in every way. He turns 2 in September and currently I am 32 weeks pregnant so we will soon be welcoming our beautiful baby girl into the world. She too will be another miracle grow who we were able to concieve naturally after trying and failing further fertility treatment.
For a long time I wanted to revisit my blog and up date on information, to offer further hope to others and my hopes for the future but I could never pluck up the courage to do it. Finally, I decided it was time to start my blog again. So here I am! This blog will still be filled with all of my 'baby hopes'. I hope to revisit my previous blogs and share my emotions and experiences with conceiving our little miracle grows. I want to share my experience of becoming a mummy for the first time, and the second time! This current pregnancy has been quite challenging (suffered with Hyperemesis Gravidarum for the first 24 weeks and then was diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes at 28 weeks) and I hope to share my experiences of pregnancy. I plan to share my experiences along the journey of motherhood as our family grows once more.
I want this blog to be honest and real. This blog is for me and any others who may find comfort or reassurance in what I am writing.
In September 2012, my husband and I found out the devastating news that we would not be able to concieve children naturally and would therefore need fertility treatment. I have Polycystic Ovaries (PCOS) and my husband has a high percentage of anti-sperm antibodies present making our chances of natural conception less than 5% and the need for IVF/ICSI as necessary.
In an attempt to cope and deal with what was to come, I decided to keep a blog. I had never written a blog before and had hardly read any. As we started our first cycle of IVF I also started to document my thoughts, hopes and fears on a blog. The blog was always for me and a way for me to try and deal with what was happening (I'm usually very good at bottling things up!). Like I said before, this blog was for me and I was completely new to the blogging community. Therefore, when I started being contacted by others all over the world who had read my blog it was a completely unexpected and amazing experience which filled me with many emotions. I was humbled and joyed by the fact people were finding comfort and reassurance from my posts but also incredibly heartbroken to speak with many others going through similar devastation.
Unfortunately, we kept getting more and more bad news. It seemed that everything we were trying and doing was failing, nothing was working and I found it harder and harder to keep blogging about my experience. My original blog was also called 'babyhopesblog' on Wordpress but it seemed I was losing hope altogether and blogging became too painful. Eventually, my husband and I decided we needed a break, from all the treatment and upset and away from all who seemed to be getting everything we wanted...a family. We decided to rent our home, move to Australia for a year, save up for another cycle of ICSI (we had already spent all our savings on previous rounds) and then hopefully return and feel ready to try again.
Amazingly, the night before we were due to sign over our home for a rental agreement, we found out we were pregnant (I was clearing out and found a pregnancy test. I was going to throw it in the bin but randomly decided to do it!) . We had somehow, unbelievably conceived a child naturally. Due to having no periods, we had no idea how far along we were, all we knew was that we were further along than we had even been before in our dream of creating a family.
As I am writing this now (August 2015), my beautiful son is napping next to me. He is our little miracle grow who is perfect in every way. He turns 2 in September and currently I am 32 weeks pregnant so we will soon be welcoming our beautiful baby girl into the world. She too will be another miracle grow who we were able to concieve naturally after trying and failing further fertility treatment.
For a long time I wanted to revisit my blog and up date on information, to offer further hope to others and my hopes for the future but I could never pluck up the courage to do it. Finally, I decided it was time to start my blog again. So here I am! This blog will still be filled with all of my 'baby hopes'. I hope to revisit my previous blogs and share my emotions and experiences with conceiving our little miracle grows. I want to share my experience of becoming a mummy for the first time, and the second time! This current pregnancy has been quite challenging (suffered with Hyperemesis Gravidarum for the first 24 weeks and then was diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes at 28 weeks) and I hope to share my experiences of pregnancy. I plan to share my experiences along the journey of motherhood as our family grows once more.
I want this blog to be honest and real. This blog is for me and any others who may find comfort or reassurance in what I am writing.