My husband and I were trying to conceive for over two years and never had a positive pregnancy test. My OB sent us to do some testing and it was discovered through an HSG test that both of my Fallopian tubes were completely blocked. We went straight to IVF. The first round failed, and we had no frozen embryos. The second round brought 2 viable embryos and we transferred them both and got pregnant! 9 weeks in I started bleeding and it was discovered that I had a rare heterotopic pregnancy meaning that one embryo implanted correctly in the uterus but the other had implanted in my left Fallopian tube causing an ectopic pregnancy. I had emergency surgery to remove my left tube and, unfortunately, lost that baby. I was able to sustain the other pregnancy and had my daughter Kayla in 2014.
We wanted to grow our family so we went back into treatments pretty quickly. IVF rounds 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 were all fails - not even a positive pregnancy test. We decided that we were done with treatments, but I struggled. A lot. I put myself into intense therapy and realized that I wanted to support others and formed the support group which then led to a DIY Walk of Hope through RESOLVE, The National Infertility Association. Our first walk was so successful that my husband and I were nationally recognized at RESOLVE’s annual Night of Hope Gala in New York City in November of 2018.
Through all of this I decided that I wasn’t done and wanted to give IVF round 10 a go…with one catch - I wanted to film a documentary about it! I advocated for myself and opted to have a surgery to remove my second Fallopian tube before getting started with round 10. In October of 2018 I had my tenth transfer and it was successful. I delivered my second miracle baby girl, Rylie, in June 2019.
Inconceivable
I wanted to openly share the raw and real of an IVF cycle so we invited cameras to document our entire tenth IVF round in an effort to uncover the hidden truth behind in-vitro fertilization - baseline testing, ovarian stimulation, egg retrieval, and frozen embryo transfer - in the 2022 film Inconceivable.
