In the beginning...

We have been on a journey to start our family since early 2005. After realizing that because of certain medical abnormalities our only option to conceive our own child would be through in vitro fertilization, we met with Dr. Dodds. Our first round of in vitro ended tragically at about 2 weeks post conception and we struggled through some dark times as we grieved the loss of our twins. In Jauary of 2007 we tried again with frozen embryos that we had gathered during the first in vitro process. We had the doctor place 3 embryos, none took. We chose to use our remaining frozen embryos (3 again) in July 2007, again, none took. Now out of frozen embryos we had the tough decision of what now?! After much contemplation we decided to give in vitro one more try. In October 2007 after a very traumatic egg harvest we created 4 more embryos and placed them on the 19th, again, no pregnancy. At this point we felt that we were going to have to stop trying in vitro. Not only is this exhausting financially but also physically and emotionally. In December Dave had some further testing done and it was found that he actually had a viable count! We were told for the first time that we might actually be able to conceive naturally! We began attempting immediately but by April realized that this still was not the answer that we thought it would be.