our journey to have a child

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=215 BGCOLOR="#CC3366" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="2d506732dkcfyw.gif"> <div> <IMG SRC="17a6f8c0.gif" border=0 width="111" height="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> "Ask wisely, with love, for everything you want." - Mark Victor Hansen, Author and Speaker </div> <div> Click here to go Back to <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our adoption pagesletter to bmom"><U><B>Our adoption pages-letter to bmom</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=95 BGCOLOR="#CC99CC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#993366" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Our Baby Blessings adoption and infertility support</B></FONT><B>  </B><B> </B><B>|   </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Baby Blessings adoption and infertil"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id72.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our adoption from China 2006"><U>Our adoption from China 2006</U></A>   |   <B>our journey to have a child</B>   |   <A HREF="id71.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letter to Birth Mom"><U>Letter to Birth Mom</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id69.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="baby poetry"><U>baby poetry</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id68.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="babys nursery pic "><U>baby's nursery pic </U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=385 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CC99CC" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FF6666" FACE="Arial" ><B>Our Baby Blessings adoption and infertility support</B></FONT>   <B>  |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Baby Blessings adoption and infertil"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id72.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our adoption from China 2006"><U>Our adoption from China 2006</U></A>   |   <B>our journey to have a child</B>   |   <A HREF="id71.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Letter to Birth Mom"><U>Letter to Birth Mom</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id69.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="baby poetry"><U>baby poetry</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id68.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="babys nursery pic "><U>baby's nursery pic </U></A></div> <div> <B>our journey to have a child</B></div> <div> I wanted to explain our journey to have a child.</div> <bR> <div> My journey starts before I was married. I went to a doctor in Chicago where my treatments started with surgery to check out all my systems to see what was the problem with my cycles. I think I have always had missing or irregular cycles.</div> <div> They didn't find anything wrong so they did more tests. I had 2 major surgeries in 2 years in 1990 and then again in 1992. I don't think they helped a bit. </div> <bR> <div> Fast forward from 1990 until current day. I have had lots and lots of tests. I have had 6 D&C's in the past 5 years, sad to say. I have either  no cycle or too much cycle. There really isn't any middle ground. </div> <bR> <div> I have done years of clomid with no luck. I tried glucophage (it's a diabetic drug to make some women have normal cycles)  and it didn't work for me.  Actually I felt like passing out so I stopped taking it. </div> <bR> <div> About the only thing that has been successful is when using Pergonal and Profassi. Out of the 5 times I have done Pergonal injections, I have gotten pregnant 3 times. </div> <div> I seem to be able to get pg while on these injectables, but seem to loose the baby before week 8. Doctors are unsure why this happens and are not sure how we could prevent this from happening again in the future.  </div> <bR> <div> We went to a reproductive endocrinologist and had tons of blood work done in 2002. Even John had blood work and semen tested. We all came back with excellent results. We were unsure how we felt about IVF and decided to try again thru our local gyno instead of this new RE. Since I could ovulate on my own with drugs, there really wasn't any reason to do IVF in our minds. The difference in cost is that IVF is $5,000 more than just doing the shots and ovulation shot alone. Also I did some more checking with different IVF dr's and they agree that IVF is not going to help us carry a child to full-term anymore than doing the Pergonal and ovulating on my own.</div> <bR> <div> We did our 4th-5th cycle of injectible drugs September/October 2003, I miscarried at 4 weeks in late October 2003. Loss is painful in many ways, the emotional loss is difficult but I believe God is in charge of us all. The physical hurts heal over time, but there is a great disappointment in the process of trying and failing again and again.</div> <bR> <div> We didn't do any fertility treatments in 2004. At the end of 2003, we paired up with a very young girl and promised to adopt her child. Alexander was born 2-26-2004 and we were at the hospital to see him. We brought him home from the hospital the next day and he's now officially ours on paper.</div> <bR> <div> I'd like to add that we did an Open adoption and that Alexander's bmom, bgramma, and b-great-gramma are all still a part of his life. They can call us and come and see him if they want to see him. This has worked out very well so far. </div> <bR> <div> We didn't want Alexander to grow up alone, so we adopted a little girl from China in March 2006. Alexander is 4 years younger but he is about the same size. This was a great solution, as they both play together and spend lots of time outside in our big yard.</div> <bR> <div> Is there another child in our future? I'd love to adopt another infant. To do it all over from the very first day again....</div> <bR> <bR> <div> We have a Big yard, a big house, and lots of love to offer children, if you know of a bmom who wants a loving home for her child.....please contact us. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> ******</div> <bR> <div> More information soon,</div> <bR> <div> sandra</div> <div> (updated 10/31/2006)</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>