So, I guess this is where it all begins! I have been married to my wonderful husband for over 2 years now, and I still love waking up to him everyday. I really do love him so very much. We have been together since June 1999, so 11 years and counting!
I have desperately wanted us to have a baby for quite some time, but hubby was a little reluctant, and took a LOT of persuading! But he finally agreed that we could start trying for a baby after our wedding. I stopped taking birth control in April 2008, and we married the following August. We began "trying" straight away, absolutely convinced that we would conceive that first month! Unfortunately we didn't. In December 2009, over a year later, and still no hint of a baby, we finally agreed we needed some help. We saw my GP who sent me for the basic blood tests to check I was ovulating. And Hubby was to have a sperm analysis. We went back to see her in February 2010 to get our results. Mine showed I was likely ovulating, and she didn't feel there was any further investigation needed for me. My Husbands tests showed that he had a low count, poor morphology and motility but most importantly he had a greatly increased semen viscosity. Meaning that any good troops he has, simply cannot get anywhere as the semen is to thick for them to swim through. Although she couldn't say we would never conceive naturally, it was quite unlikely, and so deemed fertility treatment our only real hope.
I felt like the whole room had closed in on me, and truly felt my heart break. All I have ever wanted in life is to be a Mummy. To have my own darling children to love. Now I was being told that fertility treatment was our only real chance of this happening. Fertility treatment, that has around a 40% chance of working.
I was informed my BMI was to high for us to qualify for NHS treatment, so I was advised to loose weight and once, I had lowered my BMI to below 30 then my GP would start our referral. So fast forward to December 2010, I still have 14lb to loose to get my BMI below 30, but my GP agreed to start our referral regardless, Yay! We have an appointment on the 29th December to see the consultant, and I hope we will then be able to start some form of treatment, in the first part of 2011!
So, that's my journey so far, 28 months and 38 cycles later, I truly hope 2011 will be my year.......
