I would like to share with you......

I was inspired by another triplet mommy to write about our journey of trying to conceive. It is pretty personal, but I think a lot of people hit the blogs and if I can give 1 person hope or insight then it's all worth it. Plus, you have to listen to this amazing song by Kelley Coffey, country music singer. She has some wonderful music and this song will make you just melt especially if you've had any trouble at all trying to have children. I will post a link at the bottom.

Jeff and I knew right from the beginning that we'd need some intervention from medical speicialists if we decided to start a family. Jeff had his vasectomy reversed in 2004. The reversal was a success,so they said and we tried and tried to get pregnant, but it never happended. Poor Jeff, I made him get so many tests. He was such a trooper, he trusted and did everything that I said after researching and researching and discussing with his Dr. Since we thought everything checked out with him I turned the tables onto my self and started going to my Dr. I was on clomid for awhile and that really helped me ovulate, but still no pregnancy. Nothing....
I shared Jeff's test results with my Dr and she explained that we should really talk to an infertility specialist because with those low #'s across the board it would be tough to get pregnant. We'd tried for a little over a year before we went to The Center for Reproductive Medicine. When we met with the wonderful Dr there she told us that our best chance to get pregnant woule be IVF. We could have done artificial insemination, but frankly that would not have worked. Because of our insurance coverage we decided to go for IVF. We were so lucky, our insurance paid up to $10,000.00, but only once in your life time. So, basically one round of IVF was paid for. I started on all the shots and started going in so they could monitor me and only 3 eggs had developed. That was not the goal, they give you those drugs so you can produce several eggs so that in the lab you have lots of 'tries'. The Dr told us we could cancel our cycle and start over. She said since I was so young she put me on a pretty low dosage. Or we could remove the 3 eggs and try to fertilize them and see what happens. Part way thru I was informed that we may need to use donor sperm which broke my heart. Thankfully we were able to get a good sample to use of Jeff's sperm, but it was pretty scary there for a couple days not knowing. We decided then to move ahead with the 3 eggs. Thankully 2 of the embryos made it 5 days in the lab and they transfered them to my uterus. Much to our amazment they both implanted, in fact one split and gave us our beautiful identical girls and the other was of course Evan our perfect little boy. This was our first try and I know that is rare and people try for years and years, this whole process only took 2 years. One of the keys though is that you really have to push your Dr sometimes and go in visit after visit and just keep asking questions and keep pushing them to find an answer. Our answer was pretty simple, but I know others aren't.

This was such a journey and 'someone' must have had a special plan for us. We are so blessed and so lucky. I never gave up, I came close, but never did. I'm so glad I didn't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqfGqOx2iDQ Here is the link to that song :)