Hello everyone,

I want to introduce myself and share my husbands and my hard fought 10 year infertility story with you.  My name is Leisha and I hope that you find our story inspiring and also keeps your faith up.

My husband and I dated for 9 years before we got married and always talked about having children.  After we married we tried right away to have a family.  We just didn’t know that it would lead us down a very long path.  By no means was this easy for us.

We thought like many other couples that we would get pregnant right away.  We tried for several months, but still did not.  We consulted with my OBGYN to see if there might be something wrong with me.  He suggested that we try naturally for a year.  After trying  for a year my OBGYN suggested that we go through Artificial Insemination for at least six months.  My husband and I tried for a year hoping that one of the extra months we might get lucky, but we did not.

By now my husband and I were beginning to think that there was something wrong with one of us.  My doctor suggested that we go through some tests.  The tests showed that one of my tubes were blocked.  I also mentioned to my doctor that I was having lower abdominal pain for quite sometime.  He suggested that I have Laparoscopic Surgery to see what was causing me the pain.

During surgery, my doctor found that my fallopian tubes were blocked and that I also had Endometriosis.  He fixed everything that he could and told us to keep trying.  After several more months, we still weren’t pregnant.  I had another dye test that showed one of my tubes was clear and the other one was blocked.  My husband did some research on massage therapy in which we traveled from Wisconsin to Florida for.  Unfortunately that also failed.

We talked about what we were going to do next.  After ALOT of research we decided to try  In vitro fertilization .  We went through one fresh cycle and two frozen cycles and finally became pregnant!  Seven weeks later we went for our ultrasound and found out that we miscarried.  Words cannot explain what we were feeling.  After the failure of our last frozen cycle, we decided to take a break.  I remember the IVF doctor telling us, “don’t wait too long because it looks like your time clock is ticking”.  What he meant was that I didn’t have many follicles left to produce.

Due to me having more abdominal pain and the theory that my tubes may be allowing fluid to drown my embryos, I ended up having another laparoscopic surgery, this time to remove my fallopian tubes.  This was devastating to us because , not only was my time clock ticking, but now I couldn’t get pregnant naturally.

My husband and I talked about trying IVF one more time.  We didn’t know that after 10 years of trying to conceive  this would turn out to be our last time… ever.  Since the tests showed that I did not have alot of follicles left I was double dosed with fertility drugs in hopes to produce more.  I ended up with 10 follicles, 8 which were good, and only 5 turned into embryos.

After a week we found out that we were pregnant, and after 8 more weeks we were able to see three heartbeats…Triplets!.  We struggled with almost losing them several times.  I was on bed rest after the first 9 weeks due to bleeding.  I was admitted in the hospital at 23 weeks, just one day shy of my 24th week.  I can remember the NICU doctor telling me that I don’t want to have these babies at 23 weeks.  I didn’t know that they can’t save a baby if born prior to 24 weeks.  We had our ups and downs and scares in the hospital, but at the end of 31 weeks and 10 long years, we were blessed with 2 boys and a girl.

I wanted to tell our story in hopes to inspire infertile couples.  When it looks like all else has failed never give up your hope or faith.