I spent a lot of my time on these forums during my fertility journey. Promised myself that if we were ever successful that I would share my story to give others hope.
I am now 39. We were trying to conceive for 7 years. (I have one fallopian tube from an ectopic pregancy) After 2 years of trying to concieve and at the age of 33 we were referred to a fertility clinic where we had our 1st round of ICSI.
We produced 3 5 day blasts. The first transfer resulted in a 15 week miscarriage (cause unknown) the 2nd was a missed miscarriage and the third a chemical pregnancy.
Following the miscarriages we decided to have a break from fertility treatments.
We were referred for further tests relating to the miscarriages and the Consultant recommended before we try again that we go see a nutritionist (privately funded) for more tests, we tried a strict diet provided by the nutritionist and vitamin supplements. Then we had our second cycle of ICSI which resulted in us getting 6 5 day blasts. We didnt carry on with the strict diet as it was too grueling but we continued with the supplements for the first transfer.
The first transfer was a BFN, the next transfer we put 2 back which ended as a chemical pregnancy, the next transfer was a BFN. I decided I couldn't face having another 2 separate transfers with the 2 remaining embryos and decided to put them both in. This was to be our final attempt. Prior to this, the Consultant recommended I have an endometrial scratch (there is little evidence that support these scratches work but in my case I believe it did help) and they also added blood thinners to my treatment plan and double progesterone - a shot of progesterone in the morning and pessaries in the evening.
We got a BFP! I was 38 by this point. I had a large bleed just before my 6 week scan was due. I was convinced I was miscarrying again. On the scan it showed 2 heartbeats! And the bleed had been further down in the womb. We couldnt believe we were having twins!
The pregnancy was relatively smooth by our standards until around 22 weeks, I was having extra checks with the preterm Consultant (due to the late miscarriage) and at 22 weeks a scan revealed my cervix had significantly shortened, one of the bag of waters was entering the neck of my cervix, therefore I had to have an emergency stitch put in to hold the pregnancy. My cervix couldnt cope with the weight of the pregnancy. This was successful. After everything I still couldnt believe we would have these babies. We didnt buy anything until 30 plus weeks and I didnt dare do very much for fear of losing the pregancy. As the weeks passed by we started to believe this actually may happen for us.
At 35 weeks plus 5 days my waters broke and I gave birth naturally to our 2 beautiful twin girls who are now 10 weeks old and I still cant believe they're ours.
Dont give up when things seem like they're never going to happen, we are proof that the universe likes a stubborn heart and miracles can happen.