Hi everyone! It’s been a long time since my last post, a year to be more specific. Big changes have happened since then, and today I want to tell you about one of the most significant experiences that I have had. This year, 2018, we welcome home a new family member: Baby Nico. Before telling you about our current life, I want to share with you how it all started.
In February of 2016, we decided that we wanted to have a baby, and we tried insemination at home, but it did not happen. We didn't even try to do it again or talk about it; it was kind of frustrating. After a few months, we moved to New York, and we decided to give it another try and do it in a clinic. The first appointment was on March 21st, 2017. We found this fantastic doctor, who was recommended by my ObGyn, named Rosalind Hayes. On the first appointment, after several questions and clarify doubts, we decide to do an IUI -placing sperm inside a woman’s uterus-. After the questioning for both of us, she did several tests/examination, including trying to inject a flexible catheter into my cervix. To my BIG surprise, it didn't go through (After all, that was the "problem" back on 2016). On March 24th they had to dilate the cervix. OH, DEAR LORD! It was a straightforward procedure, it didn't hurt at all. I was out the same day, and after that, we were eating pancakes at IHOP. After all appointments and procedures, we were ready to make our second attempt. We did have chosen our sperm donor [which took a lot of time, reading and thinking to decide; let me know if you would like to know how all that happen]. On April fools [funny, right?] I got that washed sperm injected right into my uterus with a little help of a tablet/pill named Clomiphene Citrate. We had to wait a very long two weeks. When the time came, we went anxiously and with high hopes to the Lab. We sat in that cold waiting room for a few hours, only to find out, that same day, I was not pregnant. Days before that I was very nervous and anxious, and every time I went to the bathroom I look down to my undies just to make sure I wasn't bleeding. That same day, just as I was getting home from having the blood work done, I got my period, and that's how we found out. Yes, I did cry a lot and got very frustrated, no one is prepared to receive that kind of news, and I had my hopes highly elevated. I remember we went to Canada the weekend before, and I didn't even drink because I thought I was pregnant. I'm fortunate to have Raisha and all the support she gave me those days. FACT: No one knew about this, which made it harder to cope. I remember family members came to visit on several times and we had to hide the prenatal pills, the sperm catalog or even change some appointments, LOL. A few days passed, and we went to our next appointment to try our third attempt, Dr. Hayes gives us the speech about "all of this can happen,” and we both need to be prepared for this kind of news. Obviously, we knew. We started again from scratch. So, for five days to increase my chances to get pregnant I had to take some new pills and get an injection. Also, we bought another sperm vial, and we waited until I was ovulating. *Fingers crossed*. I'm not going to lie, I was very positive and confident, but at the same time I was very anxious because I didn't want to experience the same thing that happened the second try and Dr. Hayes told us this sperm count was lower than the first one. After two LONG weeks, I did my first pregnancy test, and it came back POSITIVE –“stay calm, because it could be a false alarm because of the injection”-, and had to do not two, three test to finally say I was pregnant. On June second, we saw/hear for the first time our baby. How does it feel? Out of this world, MAGICAL. I remember we both cried, we hear that heartbeat, it was so strong... WOW! Amazing, we couldn't believe it, we were going to be MOMS.
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