Last year, their growing family was preparing to welcome baby number seven—kids ranging from newborn to sixteen. But with just five dollars in their account, $4,500 in monthly bills, and no savings or retirement to fall back on, the future looked impossible. Then came the final blow: her husband was let go from his job—no […]
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They told her the odds were just 5%. Her only embryo—graded 4BC and untested—was all she had after two grueling IVF rounds. No special protocols, no endometriosis treatment—because she didn’t even know she had it yet. That diagnosis would come much later, after a laparoscopy. But despite everything, against every statistic, he held on. Today,
In 2022, she was diagnosed with bilateral hydrosalpinx—a cruel twist in her journey to motherhood. She fought hard, trying everything to save her tubes: laparoscopy to drain them, heat therapy, all in hopes of clearing the path. But nothing worked. With heavy hearts, she and her doctor agreed to clamp the tubes and move forward
At 37, she was facing stage 4 endometriosis and the uphill battle that came with it. Determined to take control, she started DIM and Calcium D-Glucarate before IVF—to tame her endo and clear excess estrogen. But when it was time to begin stims, her estrogen was nearly too low to continue. It almost ended before
At 40, after years of heartbreak and determination, she had already faced two miscarriages and four failed embryo transfers—each one with normal embryos. Diagnosed with diminished ovarian reserve, silent endometriosis, and recurrent implantation failure, she wasn’t new to the complexity of infertility. Her journey spanned nearly every approach: medicated and modified natural transfers, immunological protocols,
Around 11 weeks, it hit—this weird, stretching, crampy feeling low in the belly. Not quite pain, but definitely not subtle. It caught her off guard every time she stood up too fast or sneezed while sitting down. Round ligament pain, they called it. Felt more like a surprise attack. Now at 22 weeks with her
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When the fever came during pregnancy, worry crept in. But instead of panicking, she turned to what she knew—simple, natural things. Egg whites whipped and pressed onto paper towels, tucked beneath socks, brought down the heat. Garlic and onions on the feet helped too. When she needed more, she tried pulsatilla and belladonna, finding comfort
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Everyone said move on to IVF. That’s what the specialist recommended too. But she wasn’t ready to let go just yet. Something told her to try once more, even if it didn’t make sense on paper. There were no clear answers—tests all came back fine. Still, the pressure to jump to the most expensive option
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They got tired of keeping it all in. So when people asked, the truth came out. No more dodging questions, no more forced smiles. If someone joked about not having kids, the answer was honest: it wasn’t for lack of trying, and advice wasn’t needed. After the miscarriage last year, they stopped working on the
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They started trying when she was 35 and her husband 33. Early on, they discovered his sperm count was lower than average—not dramatically so, and without motility or morphology issues—but enough to raise concerns. Her own fertility tests all came back normal. Still, month after month passed with no positive test, no sign of progress.
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