RE: embarrasment of riches (pg, mc, adoption ment-long)

[Guest guest]

Congratulations, Caroline! I know there are lots of us who love to hear

stories like yours (and who are cheering you along)!

, SU (resected 12/04), 2 m/c

[Guest guest]

Hi Caroline -

What a wonderful story, congratulations on the adoption of your son

and on your pregnancy, I hope everything goes smoothly. You are a

very fortunate woman! Your story touches me quite closely - after 3

years ttc my DH and I initiated adoption procedures from Russia (I

lived in Russia for years in my 20s, it was the natural choice).

Just before we expected our referral I got pregnant - naturally as

well, no IVF or fertility drugs - what a shocker! As we had not yet

had a referral we decided to put the adoption on hold and see how

the pregnancy progressed (I have a complete SU unresected, so we

knew about the high miscarriage rate). This was actually quite a

difficult choice, as (I'm sure you understand) we were completely

committed at that point to adoption and were so excited to get our

referral. Adoption or pregnancy were both great options for us, one

wasn't better or preferred over the other and adopting just seemed

so right. In any case, the pregnancy did go well and I had a

beautiful daughter this past July. Her name is Zoya, the Russian

version of Zoe - so her Russian name will hopefully go very well

with the name of her future adopted sibling - we still hope to adopt

from Russia, but we'll probably wait another 2 years or so. The wait

is difficult, as part of me still feels like we have a child in

Russia ... .

Thanks for much for your story, it makes me so happy and I'm

thrilled for you. An embarrasment of riches for sure.

Take care and enjoy (and gets lots of help -- you will be busy !

a

35

Complete SU

DD Zoya 5 months old

[Guest guest]

Hi Caroline -

What a wonderful story, congratulations on the adoption of your son

and on your pregnancy, I hope everything goes smoothly. You are a

very fortunate woman! Your story touches me quite closely - after 3

years ttc my DH and I initiated adoption procedures from Russia (I

lived in Russia for years in my 20s, it was the natural choice).

Just before we expected our referral I got pregnant - naturally as

well, no IVF or fertility drugs - what a shocker! As we had not yet

had a referral we decided to put the adoption on hold and see how

the pregnancy progressed (I have a complete SU unresected, so we

knew about the high miscarriage rate). This was actually quite a

difficult choice, as (I'm sure you understand) we were completely

committed at that point to adoption and were so excited to get our

referral. Adoption or pregnancy were both great options for us, one

wasn't better or preferred over the other and adopting just seemed

so right. In any case, the pregnancy did go well and I had a

beautiful daughter this past July. Her name is Zoya, the Russian

version of Zoe - so her Russian name will hopefully go very well

with the name of her future adopted sibling - we still hope to adopt

from Russia, but we'll probably wait another 2 years or so. The wait

is difficult, as part of me still feels like we have a child in

Russia ... .

Thanks for much for your story, it makes me so happy and I'm

thrilled for you. An embarrasment of riches for sure.

Take care and enjoy (and gets lots of help -- you will be busy !

a

35

Complete SU

DD Zoya 5 months old

[Guest guest]

Congratulations on your son and on your pregnancy. When do you get

to go back for trip two and get your son? Do you have dates yet? We

adopted our daughter at age three from Kazakhstan last fall and she

has been an indescribeable blessing. We are now pregnant with number

two. I am 17 weeks now and we're all thrilled. I love to read about

other families adopting because it has just really made our lives so

much more than they ever would have been.

Take care!

>

> Well, that's what my RE said I'm suffering from at least.

>

> I haven't posted here for almost a year, so my story in brief is

that

> I have experienced IF for three years, due to PCOS and a BU/SU

> combo. I tried IVF three times, became pg once, and m/c at around

7

> weeks. Theory was that it could have been my uterus, though of

> course that wasn't definite, but chromosomal analysis showed

nothing

> wrong with the embryo. So alongside the option of going back for

> more IVF hell immediately, I was given the choice of an abdominal

> metroplasty to repair the uterus, as a lap/hyst resection wouldn't

> work because of the outside indentation of the uterus as well as

the

> septum within. Rather than trying IVF three MORE times in order

to

> determine if it really WAS my uterus causing m/c's, I opted to go

> straight to surgery then to enjoy a long recovery away from

hormone

> injections, etc..

>

> AND DH and I decided that after the surgery we would be ready to

move

> on to adoption. We figured that we'd adopt, I'd spend the

requisite

> months recouping, maybe my uterus would work if we tried more IVF

> later, and if not we'd go back for adoption again.

>

> So, I have the surgery (and survive the recovery), the adoption

from

> Russia moves along as well as those things move along, and we

finally

> receive a referral for a little 7 month old boy! Two weeks before

we

> travel to meet him, we find out that we're pregnant. Solo. No

> outside assistance. Yikes, so we're faced with the decision of

what

> the heck to do! Our social worker tried to talk us out of the

> adoption, saying two babies 14 months apart was way too much, etc

> etc. Well, we decided that was hogwash, and we knew that we had

to

> move forward with the adoption because we were totally emotionally

> committed to this little guy we've never met. Of course we're

also

> amazed and bewildered by the blessing of a surprise pregancy we

> didn't think would ever come without help from a cast of thousands

> and plenty of injectables.

>

> Fast forward to today, we returned from our first trip to Russia

on

> Monday, where we met our adorable little son Jack. Today I had my

> last appt with my RE, where we saw our adorable(?) little 9w0d old

> bean measuring right on target. So after almost four years of

> famine, we seem to be blessed with quite a feast ahead of us!

>

> Of course I'm nervous about my new re-shaped uterus, and I hope it

> will hold up for me. Like Hollie, I'll need to have a c-section

at

> 37 weeks or so, but I hope also like her the uterus will do it's

job

> and hang in there through the end. We had 6 weeks between surgery

> and conception, which they say should be sufficient.

>

> Anyhow, thanks for letting me ramble about my story, and I look

> forward to being in touch with this board again after my

relocation

> to the adoption boards for a while!

>

> -Caroline

[Guest guest]

Congratulations on your son and on your pregnancy. When do you get

to go back for trip two and get your son? Do you have dates yet? We

adopted our daughter at age three from Kazakhstan last fall and she

has been an indescribeable blessing. We are now pregnant with number

two. I am 17 weeks now and we're all thrilled. I love to read about

other families adopting because it has just really made our lives so

much more than they ever would have been.

Take care!

>

> Well, that's what my RE said I'm suffering from at least.

>

> I haven't posted here for almost a year, so my story in brief is

that

> I have experienced IF for three years, due to PCOS and a BU/SU

> combo. I tried IVF three times, became pg once, and m/c at around

7

> weeks. Theory was that it could have been my uterus, though of

> course that wasn't definite, but chromosomal analysis showed

nothing

> wrong with the embryo. So alongside the option of going back for

> more IVF hell immediately, I was given the choice of an abdominal

> metroplasty to repair the uterus, as a lap/hyst resection wouldn't

> work because of the outside indentation of the uterus as well as

the

> septum within. Rather than trying IVF three MORE times in order

to

> determine if it really WAS my uterus causing m/c's, I opted to go

> straight to surgery then to enjoy a long recovery away from

hormone

> injections, etc..

>

> AND DH and I decided that after the surgery we would be ready to

move

> on to adoption. We figured that we'd adopt, I'd spend the

requisite

> months recouping, maybe my uterus would work if we tried more IVF

> later, and if not we'd go back for adoption again.

>

> So, I have the surgery (and survive the recovery), the adoption

from

> Russia moves along as well as those things move along, and we

finally

> receive a referral for a little 7 month old boy! Two weeks before

we

> travel to meet him, we find out that we're pregnant. Solo. No

> outside assistance. Yikes, so we're faced with the decision of

what

> the heck to do! Our social worker tried to talk us out of the

> adoption, saying two babies 14 months apart was way too much, etc

> etc. Well, we decided that was hogwash, and we knew that we had

to

> move forward with the adoption because we were totally emotionally

> committed to this little guy we've never met. Of course we're

also

> amazed and bewildered by the blessing of a surprise pregancy we

> didn't think would ever come without help from a cast of thousands

> and plenty of injectables.

>

> Fast forward to today, we returned from our first trip to Russia

on

> Monday, where we met our adorable little son Jack. Today I had my

> last appt with my RE, where we saw our adorable(?) little 9w0d old

> bean measuring right on target. So after almost four years of

> famine, we seem to be blessed with quite a feast ahead of us!

>

> Of course I'm nervous about my new re-shaped uterus, and I hope it

> will hold up for me. Like Hollie, I'll need to have a c-section

at

> 37 weeks or so, but I hope also like her the uterus will do it's

job

> and hang in there through the end. We had 6 weeks between surgery

> and conception, which they say should be sufficient.

>

> Anyhow, thanks for letting me ramble about my story, and I look

> forward to being in touch with this board again after my

relocation

> to the adoption boards for a while!

>

> -Caroline