In Vitro Fertilization

Our path to in vitro has not been as stressful yet as the many stories that I have read, but who knows what will happen. I am going to start the story from the beginning so I don't forget it. John had a vasectomy about 10 years before we got married. We had talked about having kids and we waited until about a month after we got married to have the vasectomy reversal. We went back to the surgeon who did the original vasectomy. He told us at the time that after 10 years there was not high percentage that it would work, but if we were planning on having multiple children it might be worth a try. If it didn't work the next step would be IVF. Some background information on vasectomy reversals...When a man has a vasectomy his body can sometimes create antibodies that kill the sperm, so even if the reversal "works"(the tube is reconnected) sometimes the sperm come out dead. After the surgery, the doctor told us that the reversal went well. One side had scar tissue, but the other side looked great. About a month after the reversal we had a semen analysis and the doctor was surprised at how many swimming sperm he saw. We were so excited that John didn't go through that painful surgery for nothing. He told us if we weren't pregnant by Christmas(this was in August) to come back. Well, needless to say we weren't pregnant by Christmas. Instead of going back to him we thought it would be a better use of our time to go to a doctor who could help us with the next step. We assumed that would be in vitro. We needed to have another sperm analysis done, but we figured we should have it done at the University of Utah where we would have in vitro done if that was really the next step. We made an appointment for a in vitro consultation at the University of Utah Center for Reproductive Medicine. More to come...

First Anniversary-June 17, 2011

Well, we have been married for one year and things are going great. It's so funny that I haven't added to our blog once during that whole time! I spent most of that time finishing up my masters degree and playing. We have had a fun year getting to know each other and traveling. This year we went to San Francisco for Valentine's Day, Acapulco for Spring Break, Lake Powell last week, Napa wine tasting next week and Turks and Caicos islands on July 15th. John sure took me seriously when I told him that traveling is something that I really want to do! One other thing I told him that I wanted to do was have a baby. We already have two wonderful kids, Dylan and Dakota and I can't imagine better teenagers. I know that he is an amazing father because how else would you get such amazing kids? John recently read a book that encouraged him to write every day and of course he thinks I would be good at this. I'm sure that the subject I am going to be writing on will be a little personal at times, but as we have been trying to get pregnant I have found it helpful to hear other people's stories so I am going to try and write down mine as well.