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Everything Was Fine

Mark and I have been together since 1993 and we got married in July of 2000. After we had been married for two years, we decided to start trying to have kids. After trying for close to a year, I decided to go see my OBGYN. She did a basic check of me and said we would be best off doing the tests on Mark first since they were less invasive. In January of 2003 we got the news that Mark’s tests were not good. They referred us to a RE to get the specifics.

We had talked about adoption before we were ...

I knew before we married that having children would be difficult, simply because my husband had had a vasectomy during a previous marriage. No kids, but that's another story for another time. I told him that somehow, someway I WAS going to have children. Nearly five years after we married, he agreed to have a reversal. We also found out that he needed a varicocele repair. I thought that would do the trick and we'd soon be parents. Ha. It was only the beginning of our long journey. Several months of ovulation predictor kits, charting temperature, putting baby bonnets that friends had 'blessed' under the mattress (yes, seriously), and we were no closer to ...

We started TTC a year after we were married. I knew we would have a hard time. I don’t know how I knew, but I knew. Maybe its because I’m a worrier by nature. Even though I was only 33 years old, we were at the RE’s office at the 7-month mark. I half expected her to tell us that our problems were all in my head, but instead she diagnosed us as having severe MF infertility. I distinctly remember her stating our options: IVF with ICSI, then donor sperm, then adoption. I was thoroughly shocked at the idea of donor sperm and adoption was well beyond anything I was prepared ...

One woman’s struggle to have a child in a world where fertility is taken for granted and IVF is held out as the miracle answer to impaired fertility. As we approached the end of our treatment options ...

Dear Carolyn and Sean,

Thank you for sharing your story of grace with us. You have demonstrated love and compassion in ways that many of us cannot even grasp. You have, without a doubt, touched each and every one of us in the IVFConnections community. Logan is a beautiful little boy ...