I never thought I would write this story ever. I still can't believe I am doing it, but here I am, writing a story of how DH and I got pregnant after three years of dealing with infertility. We were married for 4 years before we started trying to get pregnant. I never thought it would be so hard to get pregnant, because everybody around us got pregnant so easily. We were living in Minneapolis at the time we started trying and we were far away from our home country. We started by measuring my temperature each morning and I couldn't figure out when I was ovulating. I kept monitoring my temperature, because I thought that maybe I hadn't understood the technique right. After six months of trying my DH got transferred to our home country in South America. We decided to go to a doctor to see if there was anything wrong with us. In the beginning, all the tests were normal. They told us that there shouldn't be anything preventing us from getting pregnant. After one year and one cycle where I hyperstimulated, another doctor found out that I had PCOD and that I wasn't ovulating. I was put on a drug that induced ovulation. Almost a year went by and still nothing happened. Then, I had to have surgery because I had a huge cyst on my right ovary. The doctors thought that I would get pregnant after the surgery but again nothing happened. We decided to keep trying with the ovulation drugs for another 6 months and then move on to inseminations. I had one insemination in my home country and nothing happened. A month before my second insemination my DH was transferred again. This time it was to Colombia and I was very sad that we had to start all over again with another doctor. Thank God, our doctor in Venezuela had recommended a wonderful doctor in Colombia. We went straight to her office after we moved. She couldn't find the reason behind our infertility either. We tried two more inseminations and then we made the decision to try an IVF cycle.

Our first cycle was horrible. I felt terribly moody and the cycle was cancelled because I didn't respond well to the medications. We waited two months and tried again. This time they only managed to get 2 eggs and just one of them fertilized. I was very sad, but DH kept telling that we only needed one to get pregnant. Unfortunately, we didn't get pregnant that cycle.

We decided to take a rest for six months because we were emotionally and physically exhausted. In May, we were ready to start another cycle. This time it was like heaven. I responded well to the medications and everything went smoothly. The day of the retrieval, they were able to get 8 eggs and 4 of those eggs fertilized. We transferred all four embryos. Twelve days after my transfer I was scheduled to have my pregnancy test. I truly thought that I wasn't pregnant. I went in for the test at 8:00 AM and at 9:15 AM the doctor called me at home to tell me that I was pregnant.

I am now17 weeks into the pregnancy and we have found out we are having just one baby, a baby boy. I never thought the day would come when I would be able of see my own baby on an ultrasound monitor. We still can't believe it!!! For us it is like a dream, but it is a dream come true.

Editor's Note: The story "I still can't believe it" is the updated version of the story "Our time will come someday" which originally appeared in the "Continuing Journeys" section.