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Our Journey to Baby Summerskill

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Hi everyone, thank you for taking the time out to read our story! If you know us personally, you know our journey to parenthood hasn’t been an easy one. If you’re new here, let me explain it for you. My husband Aaron and I have been together for 8 years and have been trying to grow our family for 6 of those years. After routine blood work and procedures to see why weren’t able to conceive, we were told everything looked good and that we had unexplained infertility. We tried everything we could with my OB before she referred us to a fertility clinic in Troy Michigan. After 4 failed IUI’s at that fertility clinic, we decided to take a year break and try on our own. Once that failed, we chose to seek out a second opinion with a reproductive endocrinologist at the University of Michigan. Within 10 minutes of speaking to her, she recommended we see a urologist and suggested there may be a bigger problem that no one else took the time to figure out. Upon meeting with him, he recommended Aaron have surgery to fix/repair an issue and the surgery was a success! We were so hopeful going in to our next IUI’s only to have those 4 IUI’s fail as well. She then recommended that I take part in a weight management clinic to see if losing weight would help our chances of conceiving. In May of 2019, I began the program and at the end of the 4 months, I had lost 50 pounds!!! To say I was thrilled would be an understatement! Proceed to the next 3 IUI’s and all 3 of those failed as well. After an IVF consult with our doctor & several phone calls to our insurance about coverage and medication costs, we quickly realized this next step in our fertility journey was not going to be easy or cheap. Any funds raised will be used for the IVF medications, the cost of the IVF procedure(whatever isn’t covered by insurance) and any other expenses associated with the IVF procedure itself. We will begin all of our pre-testing in the next month or two and are hoping to begin our IVF process in July and August!! We exhausted all of our other fertility treatment options before moving on to IVF because we knew the financial toll was significant and we didn’t want to do something prematurely if we didn’t need to. Some of you know how much this means to not only myself but my husband as well. Having children has always been part of our plan from day one. Life just seems to keep throwing us curveballs but we are not going to let them stop us!!! Any amount helps & we are so grateful for all of you for even considering donating!! We love you!! Thank you!♥️
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Donations 

  • Karly Saez
    • $25
    • 2 yrs
  • Katie Gunning
    • $40
    • 3 yrs
  • Sally Lemmo
    • $100
    • 3 yrs
  • Karly Saez
    • $25
    • 4 yrs
  • Demmer Jacqueline
    • $100
    • 4 yrs
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Candy Summerskill
Organizer
Rossford, OH

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