We would like to introduce you to Daisy, she is on her journey to motherhood. Unfortunately, she has experienced infertility at a very y0urng age, and due to her condition, she has decided to move forward with IVF to become a mother. Here’s her story.”This is my journey. It’s been a crazy, emotional and heartbreaking couple of years. After being diagnosed with Stage 4 endometriosis and PCOS at the age of 17, I experienced excruciating pain on a daily basis, fainted several times because of it, and was admitted into the gynecology ward every couple of months. After my fourth surgery, I asked my gynecologist if he thought I should check my fertility. He laughed and told me, “the NHS won’t pay for it because you are only 20”. Dishearteningly, I spoke to my dad and begged him to take me to the Harley Street Fertility Clinic. It was there that I received the heartbreaking news that I was in-fact prematurely infertile. My wonderful consultant recommended I freeze my eggs and find a sperm donor to create a handful of embryos, which would then also be frozen. I choose to do both. Fast forward to the 10th March 2016, I started IVF and froze both my eggs and embryos.
The process was hard and emotional. I experienced a phantom pregnancy and after a phantom miscarriage, I was in a really dark place. Fortunately, the process was successful and they managed to freeze four embryos and five eggs. I still experienced pain every single day, admission to the gyne ward became the norm and all of the nurses knew my name. My head was clogged. It was filled with pain and I couldn’t help but wonder ‘what’s next?’. I had two more surgeries and was told my endo had progressed to stage 5. The last operation was in October 2018. My surgeon and consultant told me my womb was full of endo, adhesions that were attached to my bowel and from previous surgeries a lot of scar tissue. He removed as much as he could but told me that my womb will not last another two years and that I should consider doing my transfer now because he knew how much I wanted children.
Once I had recovered from the operation, I went to see my fertility consultant. Together we decided that I would start my transfer the first week of January 2019. Unfortunately, I got very ill on the first scheduled transfer date and was admitted to the ICU with pneumonia. We stopped all treatment and replanned it for when I had a clean bill of health. On 31st January, my dad and I went to my fertility clinic and my consultant was pleased with my progress so we decided to start the Frozen Embryo transfer. The first stage of FET included a scan and blood work, and the results were perfect. She told me everything looked amazing. On 1st February, I started taking the medication for the transfer and I’m now very pleased to be on the journey of becoming a mother. It’s everything I’ve always wanted. Of course, I’m very scared but I am equally so excited for this journey. I wanted to share it with you all because I know a lot of people are going through this too, but even in 2019, infertility is a taboo subject.
As I’ve discovered, you can become infertile at any age, and that needs to become something we can all openly talk about. Follow my journey through the highs and lows of my IVF. By sharing this, I hope that I can encourage someone to follow their dreams of becoming a mother – in which ever way it takes to get there.” – Daisy We love to receive stories from individuals and coup0les who have or experiencing infertility. We know that this is a very difficult time, however by sharing stories we can connect, encourage, and even heal from what we go through in life. Click here to follow Daisy’s story on Instagram. ]]>
