Infertility, embryo donation, birth trauma and developmental issues with Anna
Waiting for you
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Two and a half years after getting married Anna’s husband Kyle was diagnosed with Sperm Maturation Arrest, which is irreversible and is considered to be absolute infertility.
Their only option to become pregnant was sperm donation. They were both on different pages about this and it caused too much tension so they decided not to do sperm donation and not to have children.
Anna made the decision to leave the job she loved working with children because it was too painful. She did a facebook post to explain to everyone at once and from that post a family contacted them about donating embryos
The process of embryo donation started from there. They met with the couple and then went through the process of ethics committee, lawyers, counselling and psychiatrist.
They were given full public funding due to being fully infertile as a couple.
The first embryo implanted worked and Anna became pregnant. She had a difficult pregnancy with pelvic separation and round ligament pain, to the point of blacking out.
Anna had a traumatic birth including a week long induction process and manual dilation to 5cm, and ending in c-section. She experienced borderline post partum psychosis and complex PTSD.
They tried for 2nd baby with embryo #2 which was also successful.
Anna had a big bleed at 10 weeks (hematoma) and from 10-20 weeks she didn’t stop bleeding.
She experienced a beautiful healing birth with the birth of her second child.
However her daughter had severe jaundice and then seizure like behaviours, health issues, and developmental delays
Anna and Kyle are so grateful to have their two daughters and are planning on trying their third embryo in the near future.
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