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Nikki & Steve (Australia)
Chapter Four: What Was I Waiting
For?
I can’t believe it took us five years to try IVF.
It was the most exciting time of our lives. We were probably over
confident, but after much prayer I felt assured that it was OK and
that it would work. What can I say? It did work!
In consulting my letters to my sister I find that the drugs were
not so much fun. I got some pretty major headaches, felt bloated
and was very worn out. I don’t recall being over emotional at that
time, but Steve might tell a different story on that one. But to
tell the truth, none of it really mattered. We were on such a high.
It was like the best science lesson we have ever had. Suddenly we
knew more about how a baby is made than we realised was involved.
We were just soaking up all this information and it was really
exciting. We were watching my follicles grow in number and size at
ultra sounds every second day. We showed our drug kit to anyone who
was interested and explained how we had to mix a bit of this with a
bit of that. We had drawing up syringes and this whole little
chemistry kit (they’ve changed the drugs now, to make them more
user friendly). It might sound strange, but it was like the
injections gave us something to do, to participate in making our
baby, because we weren’t contributing in the conventional
way.
Watching as they retrieved my eggs was incredible. I was a bit off
the planet on pethidine and I think I may have told our doctor that
I love him (very embarrassing). They said I may have trouble
remembering because of the drugs, but we didn’t stop talking about
it and somehow I retained the best bits. Then the best part of all
was seeing our little Billy, as a five-day old blastocyst, before
they popped him into my uterus. You don’t get that if you conceive
naturally!
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