You never want to see your children hurt, mentally or physically, ever!! I have seen Anthony & Erica go through such pain that it hurts me and the rest of our family.  Although their first round of IVF failed they are determined to become parents.  The best way for that to happen is another round of IVF. With the 1st round costing them close to $15,000 it is not in their budget to do another round right now. But now is the time as they still have  11 more embryos frozen at the clinic. We are all helping as much as we can but it's still not enough so I'm turning to our family and friends to ask for help. Please help us make Anthony & Erica's dream of becoming parents come true. I know they will make amazing parents and their baby will be loved beyond measure. Any donations, shares  or prayers will help tremendously. Thank you in advance for all of your love & support. We truly appreciate each & every one of you in our lives. Below is the story of their journey...
This is our journey
It takes a lot of strength & courage to talk about infertility especially on social media or even to our closest friends.. I’m not sure why we have been so embarrassed & secretive about our journey on starting a family but we were for so long, until now. Once you are married babies are just one of those things you assume comes along with it, so you stop trying to prevent it from happening, but a few years passed for us of praying/waiting & still no baby.. then we started to figure out that something wasn’t right. A lot of tests, doctors appointments, blood work & procedures just to not get any real answers to anthony’s unexplained infertility. At that point, IVF was the only direction the doctors were pointing us in. After a year of talking, praying & researching about IVF we decided to start saving for the operation. On 8-13-19 we received our IVF meds and started the process! By the time of 8-26-19 came my stomach/ butt was bruised from all the shots, I was bloated, VERY hormonal.. (poor anthony) & SO sore (who knew a egg retrieval would be the worst operation I’d ever have in my life) but we kept reminding ourselves at the end we could be pregnant! Fast forward to 10-17-19 was our transfer day & we transferred 2 beautiful little embryos! We were PUPO (pregnant until proven otherwise) probably the most stressful 2 week of my life of waiting to see if they made it to week 5, but sadly our babies didn’t. We were shocked, angry, depressed & confused of how this happened to us. (We had a 70% chance but fell into the 30% of failed transfers). So many emotions we had to work through while we grieved this loss that we were so sure it was going to happen! We never stopped praying for it to be Gods will for us to have a family.
I am thankful for every step we went through.. it only made us stronger as a couple. Im VERY thankful for my amazing husband who has been by my side every step of the way. We still have quite a journey ahead of us but we will get to the end of this heartache and I know everything will be worth the wait. ❤️
Please keep us in your prayers!
Next time you ask somebody “when are you having kids?” “Are you starting a family soon”, “You guys have been together so long, why don’t you have kids?” please keep our story in mind! You never know what a couple is going through to start a family..