Good morning everyone! Just wanted to share a little background on my ttc journey. I'm 38yo this year, married for almost 3 years (in July!). Never been pregnant in my entire life (that I know of). Never got to try a pregnancy test kit. In 2018, we decided to go for fertility checks and discovered that I have low AMH. Sperm was normal. So last year, we decided to go for IVF with KKH Dr Sadhana after numerous researches and appointments with overseas clinics and Raffles Medical. Why not utilise gov subsidy and Medisave right, IVF is expensive.
Anyway, on 17th Nov 2019, we had a Egg Retrieval surgery. Out of 7, only 4 were matured enough to be viable. Next day, received a call that all 4 failed to be fertilised (3 disintegrated upon ICSI). 1 egg out of the remaining 3 started secondary mature, which means that the egg is of poor quality but Dr Sadhana wanted to try to save the cycle. Long story short, our first IVF cycle failed. Miserably. In pain from the surgery and utterly disappointed, we let my body healed for 3 months. Alas came CoVid..!! Jan 2020 appointment got postponed.
As we are currently living overseas, we couldn't fly back in April. So we decided to fork out our savings and do it here in Qatar. Meanwhile, I have been meticulously using OPK to try to catch my ovulation days. Finally in April, I was confident that I ovulate on Day 12. In any case we tried few days before.
3 days after ovulation, we went to visit the IVF clinic here. Amazing clinic, new facilities and kind staff. Our doctor is the director of the clinic. As it is private, no long queues, no waiting game for test results like in KKH. I was started on Gonapeptyl injections on Day 21 cycle for 2 weeks. Waited for my period. Day came and went. Got my very first pregnancy test and a faint line on day 5 past missed period! After a week past missed period, we went back to the clinic for a blood test.
I am happy to say for the first time in 37+ years, I am 5 weeks pregnant (Last Menstrual Period)! Yesterday got my first scare with brown spotting.
Maybe this pregnancy won't last. Maybe it will. But at least we know even with low AMH, we CAN get pregnant! So please don't despair and give up hope. I've had polyps removed and 3 years of disappointments. Baby dust to all of you ♥