I have decided to make a couple posts and catch everyone up on our journey to how we got here. I won't go into too much detail since that would just bore everyone ;-) so will just cover the basics.
Five years ago, I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), which is a condition where there is an imbalance of hormones, such as estrogen and progesterone. These hormones are used to regulate the normal development of eggs in the ovaries. Therefore, this imbalance causes a host of problems, mostly infertility.
We have tried lots of ways to deal with this condition over the years. We started wtih basic fertility treatments at our OB office and all were unsuccessful. At that point, we were referred to Heartland Center for Reproductive Medicine Fertility Clinic in Omaha. After some initial consultation, Josh and I knew we needed to spend some time working on weight loss if we were going to be as successful in conceiving as we wanted.
In November of 2008, we started one amazing year of transformation living and breathing Weight Watchers and it changed our lives. We both lost a lot of weight and for a short time we actually forgot such words like "follicle," "ovulation," and "insemination"....all words that were part of our daily vocabulary before.
In November of 2009, once we reached a "healthy" weight, we started treatments at Heartland. What a great feeling that was after all our hard work. To make another long story short, since November of 2009, we have gone through 4 cycles with Intrauterine Insemination and eventually moved up to InVitro Fertilization. We underwent two attempts at IVF last fall and we are getting ready to start our 3rd attempt this January of 2011.
I am just now realizing that this was a long post and hope you are all still reading at this point! ;-) I promise the other posts will be much more exciting than this one but I think the past is important to where we are today.
No comments:
Post a Comment