Fertility & Reproductive Health: Meet others and share your story

@kellycattell Thank you and I hope that you are able to get in at Mayo!

Hi all! I am Jules and I was born with MRKH, which is a congenital disorder of reproductive organs. I have healthy ovaries but unfortunately, my uterus has never grown to its full potential (as I like to call it). I am looking for fellow sisters and infertility warriors to connect with and stay up to date on the latest infertility news and research. My options for having children are: IVF through gestational carrier or uterine transplant. Nice to meet you all!

Hi Jules, welcome! I had to look up MRKH to learn that it stands for Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/mayer-rokitansky-kuster-hauser-syndrome/) I had not heard of it before. You will certainly get connected with other infertility sisters here, like @loren12 @minnesotamrsa @abcdefghi and others. Actually, in welcoming you, I hope to get an update from all the group members too.

What does 2020 have in store for you? How is everyone doing?

2020 is going great. We got a positive result from our transfer and are six weeks along right now. We are cautiously optimistic. I hope everyone else’s year is going as well as ours.

Wow, @paddingtonk that is brilliant news for 2020. Congratulations (spoken with optimism, cautiously).

Our news for 2020 is that we are also expecting our first after our fertility journey began this past spring! We are due the beginning of July! The fertility journey is by far the hardest thing I have ever had to do but worth it!

Congratulations!

Join me in welcoming two new member to the group. @catchrstnsn and @bl2018, welcome. We look forward to getting to know you. Why not start by introducing yourself?

Hi,

My husband and I have been on TTC journey since we got married in 2018. We have only had one pregnancy in November of 2018 that ended in a difficult miscarriage at 10 weeks. We had gone in for what was supposed to be a happy 9 week, see your baby for the first time, ultrasound. Only our ultrasound showed a 6 week baby with no heart beat. Since then we have not had any more positive pregnancy results.

We started looking into IVF in August of 2019 and have an unexplained infertility diagnosis. We started IVF injection in the beginning of January and had our first egg retrieval on January 17th with 17 eggs retrieved. Of those only 6 fertilized and 4 made it to blast. We transplanted 2 embryos on January 22nd and found on February 5th that none of them stuck. We are looking at completing a frozen transfer in April and trying really hard to stay optimistic.

I’m so sorry for the heartache you two have had in such a short period of time. It can feel impossible to stay positive sometimes, I totally get that. After three retrieval’s we have never had any to freeze. We start feeling insane for doing it again and expecting different results, but we never have any answers. Let me know if you ever want to vent or swap stories.