One year

It has been one year since I started my injections for IVF.  I still can't believe all we went through and that IVF worked for us our first try!   Getting pregnant was very tough for us.  We tried for over 2 years.  Seeing negative pregancy test one after the other was very hard.  I was very nervous to find out why we couldn't conceive.  I was afraid that we might not be able to and I didn't want to hear it.   But with my mother in law's encouragement, I finally got a test done to find out.  I learned I had a hydrosalpinx in my tube and would never conceive naturally.   That was a tough day. But also a good one.  We could finally move forward.  We then started down the road of IVF.  Looking back now it's so crazy to think how many doctors appointments I went to, how many times I got my blood drawn (probably close to 30) and that I self administered over 50 injections!!  But today I am holding my baby in my lap.  All so worth it.  It's amazing how many people have told me they have fertility issues.  I hope I can be beacon of hope for those people!  Infertility can be a long and scary road!   In the future if we want to conceive we will go down the IVF road again.  But we have 2 embroys that are frozen for the future.   It will cost less the second time since the most expensive part the first time is getting your eggs ready with medications and doing the aspiration.   But we now have fertilized embryos.  So for second baby (hopefully) I will need to take a little medication, and pay to keep our embroys frozen each year and pay for a second implantation.  We plan to wait a couple years to watch AJ grow up before we have second child.  The cool part is our embroys are frozen at age 30!  So even if I wait till I'm 33, our embroys will be more viable at age 30.  They say frozen embroys actually even take better than fresh!!  So hopefully when the time is right we can add to our family!!