Heidi and Jack's Miracle Baby Fund
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Heidi and Jack are very deserving of a baby. They possess several attributes that would make them excellent parents. Their faith, open hearts, patience, and positive attitude are a few. This is their story: They met at a job in West Chicago in 2003. Jack very patiently kept asking Heidi out until one day she had a feeling she should give him her phone number. Their first date was The Naperville Riverwalk. Jack was a true gentleman. He picked Heidi a flower and 364 days later proposed at the same place with his Great Grandma’s diamond. They moved to St. Louis in March 2007 and were married on 7/7/07.
As the saying goes, first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage. However, this last part hasn’t come easy for Jack and Heidi. They started trying to extend their family in January of 2010. They were experiencing difficulties; therefore, they started doing IUI (Intrauterine Insemination) procedures in August of 2012. They did 5 tries of this in rapid succession. After 3 of these, they switched to a doctor that a good friend recommended and did the other 2 with that new doctor. The IUI’s unfortunately weren’t successful and weren’t cheap. They had to pay a total of $3500. Also, in April of 2013, Heidi’s GP (who had PCOS) said that she believed Heidi had PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome). However, this cannot be officially diagnosed because although you can have PCOS without having the cysts, they cannot diagnose without the cysts. Because of this syndrome, Heidi’s GP recommended that she go on a gluten free, dairy free diet.
After doing the GFDF diet for a year, they started doing IVF, but then had to stop for three months due to a medical reason. They officially started their first IVF cycle on August 21st, 2014, which, coincidentally, was the 10th anniversary of their first date. They were very blessed to be able to conceive their son Jackson with the first cycle. They were also very blessed that they were able to freeze 4 embryos (because only 20% of women can freeze any).
With a tragic turn of events on May 7th, 2015, when they went in for an ordinary ultrasound, they discovered the baby didn’t have a heartbeat. Through the process of trying to find an answer as to why they lost the baby, the doctors discovered that Heidi has a blood clotting disorder called Factor V Leiden, which led her body to form a blood clot which cut off the nutrition supply to the baby and eventually killed him. In order to prevent this from happening again, Heidi was put on blood thinner shots for their first frozen cycle, which they did 10/2 and unfortunately did not take. Going forward, for every cycle, Heidi will be put on these shots, along with the progesterone shots and prescribed pills, again. And once she is pregnant, she will continue to receive the progesterone shots for 10 weeks, the blood thinner shots the entire time, ultrasounds starting at 6 months, and stress tests starting at 30 weeks. All of this extra monitoring means that there is extremely small risk of anything happening to the next baby.
The IVF is very expensive and up until now, their insurance hasn’t covered any of the costs except for a small portion of the medicine, the cost of which is not included in with the transfer costs. However, since Jack’s company was recently bought out and they have switched insurances, the insurance will cover $11,000 of the cost of a fresh cycle. This will only help a bit however, because that still means that if they wind up needing to do a fresh cycle, they will still have to come up with at least $7,000. Plus, for the frozen cycles that they would like to do first…since they already have 3 frozen embryos left, of which they can only transfer one per cycle in order to prevent the risk of multiples…it costs $4,500/transfer.
In order to conserve money, they haven’t been on a vacation since their honeymoon in 2007. They’ve also had only one car since 2008. They are desperately putting all of their money towards their dream of conceiving and delivering a baby. They have spent a total of $25,500 thus far, $10,000 of which they had to borrow. Now they are trying to come up with as much money as they can as quickly as possible because time is of the essence since both Heidi and Jack’s parents are getting older and would love to have time with their grandkid (s).
Throughout all of their trials and tribulations, Heidi and Jack have held onto their tremendous faith, which has given them so much strength. They know God has a plan for them and that they will eventually be blessed with their miracle. While they know that there are other ways that they could become parents, after much prayer, they feel confident that they are walking in the direction that He is leading them and they will therefore not give up. In order to move quickly, and hopefully not incur any more debt, they would be so appreciative of any contributions you could make to help them fulfill their dream! Heidi and Jack's first goal is to raise $4,500 in order to start the next cycle recommended by their doctor in early December. They would love to be blessed with a boy and girl someday!
As the saying goes, first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage. However, this last part hasn’t come easy for Jack and Heidi. They started trying to extend their family in January of 2010. They were experiencing difficulties; therefore, they started doing IUI (Intrauterine Insemination) procedures in August of 2012. They did 5 tries of this in rapid succession. After 3 of these, they switched to a doctor that a good friend recommended and did the other 2 with that new doctor. The IUI’s unfortunately weren’t successful and weren’t cheap. They had to pay a total of $3500. Also, in April of 2013, Heidi’s GP (who had PCOS) said that she believed Heidi had PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome). However, this cannot be officially diagnosed because although you can have PCOS without having the cysts, they cannot diagnose without the cysts. Because of this syndrome, Heidi’s GP recommended that she go on a gluten free, dairy free diet.
After doing the GFDF diet for a year, they started doing IVF, but then had to stop for three months due to a medical reason. They officially started their first IVF cycle on August 21st, 2014, which, coincidentally, was the 10th anniversary of their first date. They were very blessed to be able to conceive their son Jackson with the first cycle. They were also very blessed that they were able to freeze 4 embryos (because only 20% of women can freeze any).
With a tragic turn of events on May 7th, 2015, when they went in for an ordinary ultrasound, they discovered the baby didn’t have a heartbeat. Through the process of trying to find an answer as to why they lost the baby, the doctors discovered that Heidi has a blood clotting disorder called Factor V Leiden, which led her body to form a blood clot which cut off the nutrition supply to the baby and eventually killed him. In order to prevent this from happening again, Heidi was put on blood thinner shots for their first frozen cycle, which they did 10/2 and unfortunately did not take. Going forward, for every cycle, Heidi will be put on these shots, along with the progesterone shots and prescribed pills, again. And once she is pregnant, she will continue to receive the progesterone shots for 10 weeks, the blood thinner shots the entire time, ultrasounds starting at 6 months, and stress tests starting at 30 weeks. All of this extra monitoring means that there is extremely small risk of anything happening to the next baby.
The IVF is very expensive and up until now, their insurance hasn’t covered any of the costs except for a small portion of the medicine, the cost of which is not included in with the transfer costs. However, since Jack’s company was recently bought out and they have switched insurances, the insurance will cover $11,000 of the cost of a fresh cycle. This will only help a bit however, because that still means that if they wind up needing to do a fresh cycle, they will still have to come up with at least $7,000. Plus, for the frozen cycles that they would like to do first…since they already have 3 frozen embryos left, of which they can only transfer one per cycle in order to prevent the risk of multiples…it costs $4,500/transfer.
In order to conserve money, they haven’t been on a vacation since their honeymoon in 2007. They’ve also had only one car since 2008. They are desperately putting all of their money towards their dream of conceiving and delivering a baby. They have spent a total of $25,500 thus far, $10,000 of which they had to borrow. Now they are trying to come up with as much money as they can as quickly as possible because time is of the essence since both Heidi and Jack’s parents are getting older and would love to have time with their grandkid (s).
Throughout all of their trials and tribulations, Heidi and Jack have held onto their tremendous faith, which has given them so much strength. They know God has a plan for them and that they will eventually be blessed with their miracle. While they know that there are other ways that they could become parents, after much prayer, they feel confident that they are walking in the direction that He is leading them and they will therefore not give up. In order to move quickly, and hopefully not incur any more debt, they would be so appreciative of any contributions you could make to help them fulfill their dream! Heidi and Jack's first goal is to raise $4,500 in order to start the next cycle recommended by their doctor in early December. They would love to be blessed with a boy and girl someday!
Organizer and beneficiary
Dayna Jeschke Minakis
Organizer
Ballwin, MO
Heidi Dierks
Beneficiary