My IVF Journey After 10 Years of Infertility
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- I tell my entire IVF Journey after over 10 years of infertility. I'm finally sitting down and summarizing my IVF journey for you guys. I was on a 10 year plus infertility journey prior to my IVF journey; a journey thought had no end for me. I had convinced myself I would never be a mom, that my body was not capable of having a baby.
After over 10 years of fighting my losing battle with infertility, I finally decided to go for IVF fully expecting it to fail. My IVF journey started off with very low expectations, but I went for it because I didn't want to regret not trying it.
So sit back, relax, and I hope you get some encouragement by hearing my IVF journey success after so many many years of infertility. Those of you going through infertility and IVF, you got this!!
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Go to playlist entitled IVF Vlog to see my entire IVF journey vlogged!!
INSTAGRAM: @brittany_elizabeth_rn
Recently, I've been focused on IVF. I share my infertility journey in hopes of supporting other women. I also enjoy posting effective home workouts, nutrition facts, and healthy lifestyle tips that have helped me live a healthier life. I absolutely love connecting with you guys as we navigate life's challenges.
About my channel:
My name is Brittany and welcome to my channel where I share everything I know about health, fitness, nutrition, and how I lead a balanced lifestyle while working as an Operating Room Nurse. In addition, I'm passionate about sharing my infertility story and current IVF journey. Balancing living healthy with going through IVF is not easy, so I want to share it all in hopes of supporting other women.
I had IVF babies at 37 and 39. It is great to be an old parent 🎉
Aww so awesome to hear!! Thank you so much for sharing!🥰🥰
I've watched all your previous videos and the two things that I can relate to the most with you are the struggles with anxiety and the believing I am actually pregnant. I am 7 weeks pregnant after 12 years of infertility, having started IVF last fall, I went through 2 retrievals, a failed mosaic FET transfer in Feb and then 2 more retrievals in the spring, I get it now. It is so surreal, I can't wrap my mind around it. Even after taking a pregnancy test every day for a week after my two blooddraws, it's still hard to believe. I had a scare at 6 weeks, but come to find out it was probably just the vaginal progesterone irritating my cervix, but I had had zero bleeding up until that instance. We were fortunate to have a 6 wk ultrasound and found out baby was okay with a heartbeat of 121 bpm! The anxiety during the waiting period and the anxiety until I heard a heartbeat is unreal. I feel like this whole process is just a series of hurdles one after another. You get through one phase with a sigh of relief just to brace yourself for another challenge ahead. I've appreciated all your insight from the tips with PIO shots, I still have another 5 weeks of those, to the food ideas and just your overall relatability! Thank you, thank you so much! And continue to be in awe by that beautiful darling miracle baby boy you have!
Oh wow thank you so so very much for writing all of this to me!!😭 You are the sweetest and I’m so glad I can be a little ray of hope for you❤️ You’ve definitely been through so much; I’m so incredibly happy for you! HUGE congratulations on your pregnancy!!🎉💗
Keep fighting all of those doubts. Try your very best to trust your body, and the process. Try your very best, when you’re ready, to enjoy your pregnancy…because it will be over before you know it and you will have missed it. I so regret my disbelief. I so regret not letting myself enjoy my pregnancy, because it was over and I feel like I missed the whole thing.
I know it’s so hard, but try your best to get excited about it, because girl..it’s happening for you!!!🎊🙌🏻
BTW, I had the same bleeding scare too at 6 weeks from the vaginal progesterone.
You got this girl! Keep taking good care of yourself and I’m so excited for you!!💕
My daughter in law had 2 IVF baby boys. 2 FETs , 2 years apart. One round FET each time.
This is such wonderful news and is so encouraging!! Thank you so much for sharing!❤️❤️
Thanks for this video. I'm a FTM at 31 weeks via IVF and what you said about IVF being a pre-trimester resonates so much. I'm so grateful to be pregnant but it feels like I was in the thick of it for 5 months before pregnancy. I imagine it feels similarly if trying for a while without ART as well but it definitely feels like pregnancy occupies more than just 10 months.
Aww huge congratulations on your pregnancy girl!! Yeah when my friend told me that it really resonated with me too. I’m so glad we can talk about all of this because I’m finding out we all experience very similar emotions and mental battles. Thank you so much for sharing and continue to take good care of yourself!🤗💕
Thx Brittany!! I relate to this so much. I just turned 38 in June and went through 2 egg retrievals the beginning of the year. I then needed open abdominal surgery to get fibroids and a baseball sized ovarian cyst removed. My 6 month wait post op to heal is almost over so I’m looking forward to a fully medicated FET. Your PIO videos are great as my husband is similar to yours and I’ll have to do it by myself. I also have all the respect for nurses, my mom has been a bedside RN working mainly in the ER and ICU and I know you guys really go through it!
I think I remember you telling me this in a previous comment❤️ I’m so glad you’re healing well and I’m so excited for your transfer!!🎉
I’m also very happy to help with the PIO shots…you got this girl!! Reach out anytime thru here or IG if you have more questions.
Keep taking good care of yourself and I’m praying your transfer is successful and you finally get your miracle too💕🙏
Aww look at that cute lil guy listening to you and looking around
Haha yeah he’s becoming more and more interested in what I’m doing 🥰 thank you!
My first embryo transfer is in a couple of days. Thanks for sharing your journey, it helps to hear someone's success story!!
Aww I’m so glad I can share and help! That means so much so thank you for your sweet message! Praying for a successful transfer and that you finally get your miracle too🙏💕
@@brittany_elizabeth_rn thank you! I'm so grateful to say that it was successful. We are finally pregnant! Thanks again xx
Such a beautiful beautiful baby! I'm so happy for you and I thank God for your videos! They are so helpful. These are things the clinic don't discuss.
I'm in the middle of IVF. I'm post retrieval and pre transfer. Mentally, I'm all over the place, depressed, moody as hell, tearful, HOT all the time. I don't even know that I want to do this again if I fail. I cry all the time. I'm crying now. My husband feels helpless. All of this is on me. I feel so alone. All kinds of people poking around in my body. And being an African American woman, there's an additional fear because we are treated differently in a medical setting. The Tuskegee Experiments and things doctors did to my ancestors are beyond brutal and is why I hesitated with IVF.
Providers are more annoyed with me or any requests i may have, more huffy, less patient, less polite, less careful, less compassionate, a little less helpful. You just never know who will do the right thing on my behalf because of my skin color, stereotypes or prejudices.
With these meds and this process, it just feels like I'm being burned alive and threatened that i better not scream because of the pain.
Thanks for all of you IVF videos. I relate to working in Healthcare during COVID, plus going through infertility. I also felt burnout and switched jobs, which has allowed me to pursue IVF. I am doing my second IVF cycle next month. Seeing your success is inspiring. I like that you also talk about your exercise through everything as that's also my main coping tool!
Aww I’m so glad you were abele to switch jobs too!! Yeah the burnout is terrible with us nurses 😩
Sending you lots of baby dust and praying your IVF journey ends successfully and that you get your miracle too💕💕
Thank you so much for doing a recap of your touching story. You are really inspiring!
Aww you are the sweetest!! You are so welcome and thank you!🤗
Your baby is soooo cute 😍
Aww thank you!❤️❤️
Your baby is so beautiful!
Aww thank you!🥰🥰
Hi thank you so so much for this am about to start mine and 34 years old
Sending lots of baby dust and positivity your way as you begin your journey!💕🙏
@brittany_elizabeth_rn I will reach out to you to help me out if possible what way is best to get to you
Now I understand why your husband couldn’t do it ! I’m worried my husband won’t be able to do it for the same reasons ik I can’t give them to myself 😔
Thats so interesting. Ur the second American IVF story Ive heard where injections we done after transfer. I didnt have that with mine but I did have to take the progesterone. Wonder if its different in Australia 🤔
Interesting! Yea I’m not sure, but I do know that there are many different treatment plans depending on the individual so I’m not sure it’s so much where you live but what you need for your own individual fertility treatment
I have loved watching your videos. I pray you kept the mosaics. I’m about to transfer a segmental mosaic! Mosaics have a chance!
I do understand wanting the ‘normal’ ones. Just saying self advocate for the mosaics and do all your research should it come to the point you may need them to expand your family 🥰🥰👶🏻👶🏻🥰🥰
Yes mosaics have a chance! Praying yours sticks and you finally get your miracle too!🙏💕
@@bethoutlaw9981I would be so scared to implant a mosaic embryo. 1) I would not want it to fail, and 2) I know I could not handle the difficulties that come with raising a child with chromosomal abnormalities.
Love your videos! I almost feel like we have the same journey. I’m an ER RN, 37 years old, we did two egg retrievals and had 8 embryos. We’ve had 2 transfers: first one failed and 2nd one was a chemical pregnancy. I have uterine fibroids (very aggressive) and have had 2 open myomectomies and 2 closed to take out the fibroids and my husband has low sperm count/ low motility. So we’re racing the clock before my fibroids grow back. I wanted to ask what protocol your Dr put you on? Thank you!
Hi and thank you so very much!! Yeah we have lots of similarities in our journeys…and us nurses need to stick together lol 🤗🤗
But wow uterine fibroids are so tough to have and deal with, I’m so incredibly sorry you have to go through that!! And you’ve certainly been through A LOT already!!
In terms of my protocol, are you referring to my FET process?
Sending you lots of baby dust and praying you have nothing but success from here on out!🙏💕
How old were you when you started IVF journey?
Congratulations! My journey just started and you're helping me way more than you think. Thank you!!! Quick question, are you thinking about trying "naturally" during until you go through your second round next year?
Thank you!!! And I’m so glad!❤️
That’s a great question lol
So we’re not doing anything to prevent pregnancy…secretly hoping I get pregnant naturally but very hard to tell what my body’s doing at the moment since I’m still pretty fresh postpartum. I haven’t got my period back yet and I’m currently breastfeeding. So not sure if I’m ovulating…
Anyways I’m planning on doing another transfer next summer and I’m assuming I’ll have to go thru the whole ordeal of the PIO injections as well.
Sending you lots of baby dust as you continue on your journey💕 praying you get your miracle too!🙏
@brittany_elizabeth_rn thank you so much for your response! Sending love and good vibes!
Hi Brittany I’m turning 40 and just starting my IVF journey after 2 losses. I workout and run 7 days a week. It’s really hard to scale back during my stim weeks 😆 when did you start back on weight lifting and workout out like normal again?
Hi,
Getting ready to start February 2024. I am feeling super nervous bc I had 3 IUI and were not successful despite me not technically having anything wrong with me. I am very nervous, i just want this to happen. Any tips for me?
You got this and I’m so excited for you to start!! I have lots of tips. Just go to my playlist of IVF tips❤️
How did it go?
You said you have tips on how to make the progesterone oil injection less painful, can you share it pls?
Yes! Video link:
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Hi
Wich fertility clinic did you use and where is it?
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Seattle Reproductive Medicine in Seattle
I have a few questions!! Do you have Facebook so I can follow you??? I don’t have Instagram:(
Yes! It’s Brittany Elizabeth ☺️
Hi i just wanna ask i have been taking my estrogen pills but im starting to feel im ovulating is this normal .?
I never have my period this month so I don’t know how this works i forgot to ask my fertility doctor about it or when my embryo transfer was
Hi I’m not sure…but I would ask your doctor