Sweetielol's story

When I was 19 year's old, I got pregnant accidentally, disaster most my age may of thought, not me I was over the moon, the boyfriend wasn't sure but just as he got excited disaster struck, I began bleeding and was in pain. The pregnancy turned out to be ectopic, which too those unsure means that it was growing outside the womb and therefore was not viable. The fallopian tube was very close to rupturing and was removed. I had umpteen Doctors visit me while I stayed in hospital, but what stood out to me then was the word IVF!

Being so young I carried on living life and and having fun, babies and IVF where never far from my thoughts. In 2001 myself and my husband became a couple, we had known each other for some time and things eventually clicked. My husband knew I wanted a family of my own (he has 2 daughters from a previous marriage) and we started trying in the hope that things would just happen, I mean we where young why would it not, after a year nothing had happened. I had already been diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome)which can cause fertility issues, but as so much time had passed trying to conceive, me made the inevitable visit to the GP and where referred to the local hospital for tests. By 2005 we where under Barts hospital, London, and after numerous blood tests, scans and sperm tests, we had our first try with IVF. I found the whole process fairly easy, injecting did not bother me at all, it was a necessary process to get what I longed for. Sadly it failed, but we had some embryos frozen, and had a FET (frozen embryo transfer) in 2006, again this failed and money was tight so we stopped treatment.

A few years later after my husband had taken his daughters home after spending a lovely easter together, I noticed how quiet it had become, and I realised I did not like the quiet, something had to be done. I went online and looked up my local PCT, and sent a very long email. Previously we had been unable to have free IVF because my husband has children, it did not take into account that I did not! Anyway they replied and advised that as the girls did not live with us and together we had no children, we where entitled to 3 goes of IVF plus FET if required. Woohoo, finally a break, so back off to the GP and re-referred to Barts. So in 2009 we headed back to the hospital and started tests again, I had my remaining tube removed and found I was 'missing' an ovary, strange, as never been told it has been removed and all scans showed '2' ovarys. Anyhow I had been having problems in late 2008 early 2009 high blood pressure and feeling pretty rubbish so I started loosing weight. In May 2010 we started our 2nd fresh IVF cycle, it went well and soon I was on the dreaded '2 week' wait, that was my 'hell' as for many other woman constantly watching for symptoms, I remember those 2 weeks as painful! I felt awful, the whole time, 3 days before my test date, and after waking up to the most horrendous heart burn we decided to test, the longest few minutes went by and we checked the pee stick, it was POSITIVE, at long last our dream was starting to become a reality.

L was born in April 2011 and has just celebrated his 2nd birthday, he is a cheeky, smiley, happy chatty boy and I love him to pieces, he has made our lives, every day is a joy. Coming home from work to the sound of 'mummy's home' is the best along with the kiss, cuddle and 'wuv oo mummy' before he gets tucked up in bed :)

--Sweetielol (talk) 05:34, 29 April 2013 (UTC)