Michelle's Story: IVF, Loss and Hope

Hello, my name is Michelle and my husband Brandon, and I have been TTC for over 3 years now. We started out simple, the oh let’s try and not try and it will happen. It did not go that way at all. Little did I know what road we were heading on. We met the doctor after a year and they said I have PCOS, which we already knew and to keep trying. We did 3 medicated cycles, ultrasounds and a trigger shot. No dice. Each time was brutal. We moved onto acupuncture in 2018, and boom, pregnant! We couldn’t believe it! Happy and excited, with all the feels, but started bleeding and miscarried.

This went on 5 more times, and finally I had enough. I couldn’t handle any more pain.

March 2019 was our last loss, I was done. We took a break, which felt good and healthy. We finally met with an RE and he said IVF was our only option at my age, since I’m now 38. We started this journey like many of you in September, 4 days before our wedding. We made a vow that no matter how bad things got, we would be okay. It’s been a hard road, but we never lost hope. We found out with the PGS testing I had abnormal eggs, and he has low motility and that was probably our problem. We had ten eggs on retrieval day and out of those ten 3 made it to embryos and out of those 3, we got the anxious call as my husband and I were on pins and needles that we have one normal embryo, and she is a girl! We were crying full of joy and over the moon for this little miracle.

IVF is pure hell. The emotions, the sickness. I lost 10 pounds from all the meds and not being able to eat. I was a wreck, but she will be worth it. We aren’t done yet, but we have more hope than we’ve ever had before. Transfer is scheduled January 16th. Our little warrior to come 10-2020.

I won’t give up and no one should. We are blessed with getting just her alone.

-Michelle Lancour

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