The young woman, now 25, received eggs from her sister. She is expecting a boy and a girl.
Buy a house and have children. These were the plans of a young Australian couple, Amber and Chris. In 2014, the first step was taken, after they bought a house. But for the rest, everything quickly became complicated.
In 2015, Amber began to experience hot flashes, which prompted her to see a doctor. The ax falls for the couple: the young woman, then aged only 23, had reached menopause. Her FSH level signaled that she could no longer have children naturally.
“It shocked me,” Amber tells the Australian blog. Houseofwhite. I only remember crying and screaming wondering if I was going to be able to have children. “
Worse and worse
It was only the beginning of a series of dashed hopes. Shortly after, a 7cm cyst was spotted on one of her ovaries. It had to be removed, and the young woman began treatment to boost her fertility. But her other remaining ovary didn’t seem more likely to ovulate.
The couple therefore tried, without success, two in vitro fertilization (IVF). Again, a second cyst was spotted on her second ovary, forcing the doctors to remove it in turn, as well as the uterine tube (fallopian tube). Amber therefore found herself without ovaries, and with only one uterine tube.
An untenable wait
Undeterred, the couple decided to persevere. Amber’s sister Taylor then joined the project, deciding to help her sister. She donated her eggs to him. But, then again, the first attempt at IVF failed.
“Mentally, physically, emotionally and financially, I didn’t think I could carry on,” she recalls. But three months later, the three people involved tried again. “The two week wait was unbearable,” she recalls. One day I felt like it had worked, and the next day I felt like it had failed. ”
Finally, the good news came. Despite the inconvenience of the early pregnancy, everyone, Amber first, was thrilled. Even more so when she learned that IVF had worked so well that she was not expecting a child, but twins: a boy, and a girl.
Telling her story is an opportunity for her to send a message of hope to other women who, like her, after several IVF failures, are beginning to despair.
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