Fertility Road Issue 44 May/June 2018

FERTILITY JOURNEYS 2018
if this transfer had not worked then we could
always try again.
I waited until I was heading home from work to
call her back. After staring at the ORM phone
number for an eternity, I found the courage and
called. My hCG level was 529. We were pregnant!
I screamed at the top of my lungs and cried
uncontrollably with joy!
I thanked Christina and immediately called Brandon
at his work. He had to remain calm in front of
his colleagues who are clueless as to what we are
going through. I told him my hCG level and he got
incredibly quiet and said, “I need to take a walk.”
Once, I got home, I laid down in the bed with
Duke, our dog, by my side and waited patiently
for Brandon, who arrived home less than an
hour later. He was still in shock and needed
reassurance so we called Christina by speaker
phone so she could tell Brandon what I had
already shared with him.
When you’re so used to hearing “ No”, you need
reassurance from the experts that the cards are
finally in your favor. We were so excited we
decided to quietly celebrate! We went out to
dinner at a local authentic Mexican restaurant
and had one of our favorites, enchiladas.
We made an agreement not to share the news with
our parents until we had received the results for the
next two tests to ensure we had a health pregnancy.
On Monday, March 5th
my hCG level was 2,601.
We had more than doubled!
On Wednesday, March 7th
my hCG level was 5,748. We had
doubled again!
On Saturday, March 10th, we shared the news
with our parents, my mother and father and
Brandon’s mother. They were all uncontrollably
happy and excited that their individual journeys
to becoming grand-parents were within reach.
We were clear with them that we are not sharing
the news with any other parties until the end of the
first trimester. We are not making plans for baby
showers or picking out names or buying clothes. We
After staring at the ORM
phone number for an eternity,
I found the courage and called.
My hCG level was 529. We were
pregnant! I screamed at the
top of my lungs and cried
uncontrollably with joy!
Dr Barbieri comments on Heather and Brandon's journey
are taking this journey day
by day with gratitude and
patience.
We had our 6 week
ultrasound Monday,
March 19th and found
out that both embryos
had taken. We are
having fraternal twins!
Baby A had a heart rate of
114 and Baby B had a heart
rate of 111 both are above the 100
rate which is considered normal. We
are ecstatic! Wow, we got here.
We weren’t sure if anyone would ever believe in
us. We weren’t sure that anyone would take the
additional time to help us overcome this ten year
obstacle. We are so grateful to ORM.
We realize that this is only the beginning and
are doing our best to take things step-by-step, but
we are extremely thankful and doing our best to
live in the moment and appreciate the gifts of life
bestowed upon us through this journey.
The entire ORM team is truly overjoyed with the wonderful news of Heather’s
twin pregnancy.
Everything we do at ORM is with the goal of helping our patient become
parents, and for them to be able to have success and a healthy baby on their
first attempt.
Heather’s pregnancy is developing as expected and is now well-established. She has graduated from our
care at ORM, and I know that she will be happy to be done with all her various injections which are part
of the IVF process. She will now be looked-after during the rest of her pregnancy by her local physician.
We are honoured to have been able to help Heather and Brandon and will be continuing to follow their
journey closely in the coming months ahead.
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