Hello everyone!
This morning I got up early, excited by the idea of \u200b\u200bsharing with everyone who wants it, the road to the project + of my life: becoming a mother
to 40 years in New York!
Well yes ... last year I decided to leave my beautiful Florence, my home, my family, my friends, my job and follow your heart and married November 14, 2009 a wonderful person with a single flaw: being American!
So, not without difficulty, I moved ... taking with me many dreams and hopes, but also a lot of loneliness, having left all my life, my habits, my world.
And here I am in quite a skyscraper on the edge of Manhattan, in front of the my huge window overlooking the Statue of Liberty. Our thoughts turn often to my loved ones far and I hope this blog makes me feel less alone in my "rugged" road to motherhood.
My adventure in search of a child begins January 12, 2010. After several months of trying "natural" test ovulation, basal temperature, I said to Scott: "Love, why do not we go to a doctor to see if everything is OK? Maybe we need just a little bit 'of vitamins? ". And since I am one who likes to go straight to the point, I found an institute specializing in infertility.
Dr. Greenseid is a petite person, younger di me, che mi è piaciuta dal primo momento. E' calma e paziente, e meno male perchè il mio inglese è lontano dall'essere perfetto.
Vi siete mai chiesti come si traducono frasi tipo: “mi sento gonfia..ho delle perdite..” ; o quando ti chiedono di “spiegare” che tipo di mestruazioni hai?! Colore?! Densità?! Per non parlare della depressione che ti viene quando cerchi di capire come funziona il sistema sanitario americano!!
Dal primo appuntamento all'Institute of Reproductive Medicine and Sciences ( IRMS) io e Scott usciamo con una lista di esami lunga un mese!! Esami del sangue di tutti i tipi, mammografia, isterosalpingografia, spermiogramma per Scott... per non parlare the various types of ultrasound, transvaginal or not, which makes me all'IRMS directly.
The good thing is that the States do not have to wait months for an appointment, especially if you have a good health insurance such as ours. All very "easy" ... the IRMS take appointments, you go and you do not have to worry about even withdraw the exams because they ship directly to the doctor.
has begun ... well, to be honest, the exams are almost all mine. Scott copes with a blood test and a semen analysis (we "harvested" and brought home within 45 minutes to analyze :-). I have to do two mammograms and an ultrasound breast .. the girl that makes me fall in love with the examination the fact that I'm Italian and I bombarded with questions like: what is the best train to come to Italy from Paris? Stuff like that ... I exploit the speed of "friendship" to request information on the results of my exam: "What do you see? Why should I make 2 of mammograms? ". She cute. In the end, so good. Well also hysterosalpingography, examination is not funny where you inject "there" of the contrast to see if the tubes are open. My I am. I
an eco-trasnvaginale to 3 day cycle (I will not comment!), Blood tests at all hours of the day to test my hormone values \u200b\u200b... you know that in America do not have to be fasting for the investigation of blood?!
On February 4, is a day I will not forget easily. Scott and I we are received by a smiling Dr. Greenseid that with all the calm of this world tells us that "no one" of our exams went well!
The only chance of having a child is artificial insemination. Not that
in vivo (fertilize my eggs in me) but only in vitro : pulling my eggs fertilized in the laboratory and put it back inside ... we hope to survive! Luckily, I was thinking about some vitamins and go ... In the phrase of Dr.
"the chance that you will produce healthy eggs are very low, but there always adoption "I burst into tears. Scott gets up sentence: "Enough!" We calmed down. She explains the procedure to be followed to artificial insemination: more tests, hormone treatment. In the end I would ask: "What are the chances I have a son?". You tell me that you can not know because you do not know how to respond to hormonal treatments. I insist. He says: 50%. We
destroyed. My dreams of starting a new life and make me a family disintegrate. So many questions, many doubts. I call my friends ... talk to me vent .... Then one of them tells me a phrase: "you are one that when you want something you do not stop at nothing. Sure you have a child. " Li I wake up ... I'll try some! But I'll try not to distort one thing that should be natural .. I do my own internal clock, I do not want to get treatment to get pregnant even absurd! If after 2 or 3 times will not do, I'll stop. I'll cry all my lascrime and then continue on with my life.
And so with other investigations. My further echoed in water shows fibroids / polyps (I understand) ... Dr. tells me that their protocol provides that the IVF (I use the English term to refer to in vitro insemination) will be made only on uteri perfect. I ask: "mine is perfect?". He replies: "I will." I understand that after I have to work to remove these "so" that taking away from my baby ... especially if the children were more than one (as with IVF you enter more than one embryo, so if someone does not survive, there is always another ... unless they all survive!).
On 1 April 2010 I will work with. It will be my first experience in a hospital and am a little nervous! Let's hope so ...
We'll update!