Second Chances

I have decided to reinstate my original blog.... this is a personal journey about myself and our troubles to start a family. I don't intend to offend.... which I seemed to do last time and as I was still so emotional following the miscarriage I wasn't strong enough to fight the claims (and instead was made to feel like shit for feeling and writing about things). This is a therapeutic outlet about my own thoughts and emotions so I hope that people can read it and take it for what it is.


The storey so  far..........

I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) in April 2008 after going off the pill in June 2007 and still awaiting my period to return. I had lots of bloods and a scan at the time which confirmed it. I also had a smear result come back with high grade abnormal cells which were removed in July 2008. I have had the all clear now from smears, however have to have yearly ones to ensure they don’t return or form to become cancerous. We were told that all this could lead to difficulties trying to conceive. 

After I got married in January 2009 I wanted to start trying straight away given that we knew we would have difficulties so in May we officially began. It wasn't easy given that my cycles never went back to normal - it could be up to 60+ days until I got a period.  We went to a gynaecologist who put us on 50mgs of clomiphene and then increased this to 100mg. This was July 2009. In December we were referred on to Repromed, the fertility specialists in Christchurch. Since our time with them we did 2 monitored cycles on clomiphene with ovridrill HCG trigger shots, a HSG tube flush, and then an IUI. We were successful with the IUI however our baby did not survive past 7w 1d, and at 8w 4d we had to undergo a D&C which just broke our hearts. It took 5w 6d for my period to return and we have decided to  carry on trying. We tried 2 more IUI's with no success so now we sit and wait on the IVF public funding waitlist for our call up!


I can only hope that the next time we are blessed to get pregnant that we are able to go full term and hold our precious bubba in our arms... please please please be soon!!!