Road to IVF, 1st cycle

I'm pending to start my first IVF session. I'm nervous and excited all at the same time. It's about $7,100.00 for IVF but about 20% from me.

We have a full nursery ready for a baby. My husband and I want a baby! Infertility has been such a huge issue with me and with my mom.. She was not successful with IVF, I was the only one she was able to conceive. I'm her lil miracle..

I'm hoping to have my one miracle or two?

I've chosen to have IVF with ICSI for a higher success rate. I also had a hysteroscopy and D&C. So I'm praying for a sticky baby or babies. I do want two good embryos.

I'm freezing my other embryos in case this isn't successful my beautiful sister in law said she would be our surrogate if come needed.

I've only been pregnant once before and it only lasted 5wks, I only got to see the yolk sac. But it was the best 5 weeks of my life! It was literally 2 weeks after we got married we conceived naturally.

It's been almost 3 years of painful testing, scrapings, horrible medications..
I let go of a previous infertility doctor, he was so admit for me to have a hysterectomy and have a surrogate.

My new doctor, Dr. Lowell Ku, has been awesome and has given me a whole new hope that I can still conceive, but we are moving fast because of my hyperplasia, in fear that it will come back.
Because it does pretty quickly.

One neat fact about Dr. Ku, we both are born on Halloween!!
How cool is that!

I gotta give him props, he's gentle, calm, and his beside manner is wonderful and understanding.
He always draws out the game plan, I've kept all of the ones they've given me, saving it for my scrap book.

This past Wednesday we completed the mandatory embryology class, medication class, and my mock transfer. Only thing we are waiting is for Aunt Flo to arrive and get this show on the road!!

My journey begins

Welcome to my life...

My husband and myself have been together since Sept 20, 2002, pretty much right after I had started remission from having Hodgkin's disease cancer.

We got married after 8 years on Oct 30, 2010; 2 weeks later we conceived and ended up with a miscarriage after 6 weeks, from that day forward it changed our life's forever.

My husband wanted to be a dad and I wanted to be a mom for our first time ever. It took a toll on me. After countless of painful doctor visits, two gyno's and 2 infertility specialist pretty much not giving me any hope or positive feed back.

I was basically was told that I was tinkering on the line of having endometrium cancer, that if by April 2013 this doesn't clear up, I was to have a hysterectomy and I was to go ahead and find a surrogate. That beyond upset me.

This doctors name is Dr. Sye Le. I remember I left out of there crying, and started to research a lot about my situation and I remember reading about other stories similar to mind and these women had successful pregnancy's. So I searched around for another doctor. I ended up finding Dr. Lowell Ku.

Best find ever!!

Hopefully this helps explains my story..