IUI to ICSI
I must have read a hundred personal accounts of other people’s Infertility Treatment in publications and websites over the 6 years of my own quest for a baby, and the comforting thing is that in some way, I have been able to identify with every one of them. Every one’s journey is different with it’s own twist and turns, bumps and hurdles, but the aim is the same for all of us, we all want to be parents. We all fantasise about that day when we hold our baby for the first time and feel that unconditional, all consuming love that we have longed to feel.
Our journey into the realms of assisted conception began after a laparoscopy confirmed what I had suspected for some time, that I had endometriosis. I was 27, my husband Gary 29 and we had been trying to conceive for about a year. I had always suspected that something wasn’t quite right with me, but after numerous GP’s told me I was merely a ‘cyber-chondriac’ I had just about convinced myself that things would be fine. It was almost a relief then to be told that my fears were justified, but it was a shock to be told that the disease was at an advanced, severe stage, and that I was probably also suffering from polycystic ovarian syndrome to boot.