So I know it's been a few weeks and I know most of you know by now that what we prayed for and hoped for didn't happen. I took a test about 12 days past when we did the IUI and it was negative. I was heart broken but still trying to convince myself that it was still a few days early. I was allowing myself to be a little hopeful until finally we knew for sure on Wednesday that it wasn't what he were hoping for. So I called my doctor because I was seriously at a loss. Why in the world will this process not work again. We have kept everything the same as the first time and I just wasn't understanding. So I made an appointment to go into see my doctor to see what her thoughts were on what we should do next.
So I went in a few days later to see Dr. Dayal. When I talked to her the only test that hadn't been ran or ruled out was a test for Natural Killer cells. This is when my body sees the embryo as a foreign body and rejects it so it won't allow implantation to happen. Everyone has these cells, it's just that some people have an over abundance of them when they are trying to get pregnant. Well they drew my blood that afternoon and sent it off to be tested. The following Tuesday I got the results back. Part of me was hoping that this was why it hadn't been working so we would have an answer but the other part of me was hoping this wasn't the problem because it just makes things 10 times more complicated. When I talked to the nurse she told me that my NK cells were slightly elevated with a tendency to elevate even more under stimulation (implantation). So the fix for this is getting intralipid infusions. The safest course of treatment for us now would be to undergo IVF.
This course of treatment would allow Dr. Dayal to only transfer one embryo which would lessen the risk of multiples and lessen the chances of pre-term labor during our next pregnancy. This course of treatment coupled with the treatment from the high risk doctor would give us the best possible chance of carrying our next baby to full term, which is of course what we want. Even though she will only be transferring one embryo we still have a 60% success rate. We don't have a timeline on when all this will happen yet, as I'm sure most of you know that IVF is pretty expensive. I have applied for a grant and we should find out if we got the grant by the end of July. I'm hoping early to late fall we will be moving forward with IVF. Right now we greatly appreciate all prayers. This have been such a tough road and we want nothing more than to carry, deliver, and finally bring home a healthy baby boy or girl. Thank you again for all of your support!
God Bless and love to you all!
Tom and Whit
