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Help us support the Yunkers in their journey of IVF
All of you that know Mike and Ashley personally, know the amazing people they are, each dedicating their lives to serving others. We witnessed the miracle of them finding each other, watching their love story unfold was proof of their ultimate faith in Gods plan. We are asking all those that love Mike and Ashley to come together and help make this miracle of having a baby possible!
Below are words from Ashley about their struggle and heartbreak during the first round of IVF.
| I’m d e v a s t a d e d. It’s with a broken heart that I share with you the details of how we began 2019.
This past Wednesday we got the call that our 1 embryo is not viable to transfer. We only had enough money to do IVF once. I thought surely it would work. I had not entertained the idea that it wouldn’t happen, I couldn’t.
Honestly to get through the last couple days I’ve had to ignore my reality, because when I do think about my life long desire to be pregnant with my husband’s child can’t happen... well I weep.
The grief that I’m experiencing I would relate to loosing someone you love, where you grieve all the memories you had & won’t have. For me, I’m grieving all the moments I won’t get to have, the moments I’ve dreamt about having since I was a teenager. People would ask me when I was in high school what I wanted to be when I grow up & I proudly said, "a mom”
I don’t understand why God didn’t allow our one embryo to be strong enough to transfer. I’ve had to wait a long time for some important things in life, one of those being my amazing husband, but I always had hope that someday I would get married. And that day came! I waited a long time to have a baby, IVF is our only way to be pregnant, without IVF all hope for a child together is gone.
Our doctor did say that with my round of IVF I had all the right numbers & bloodwork for my age, she said that with a slight modification to the plan she really believes we could conceive with a 2nd round of IVF. The doctor later talked to the finance department & said if we decide to do a 2nd round it would be 20% off. While that is really great of them, we don’t have anything close to being able to do a 2nd round.
My current state of grief when I’m not weeping is figuring out how we can come up with the money. (Due to my age, time is not on our side, so saving & trying in a few years is just not an option.) I’m trying to grasp for hope that my deepest desire to give birth to my child is not over. I’m looking into grants or scholarships for IVF. Pray with me that somehow, we will be selected for a scholarship!
Wish this was just a bad dream & I’d wake up looking forward to Feb 20 when we were suppose to transfer our embryo.
#ivffail #ivfjourney #yunkerivfstory|
All of you that know Mike and Ashley personally, know the amazing people they are, each dedicating their lives to serving others. We witnessed the miracle of them finding each other, watching their love story unfold was proof of their ultimate faith in Gods plan. We are asking all those that love Mike and Ashley to come together and help make this miracle of having a baby possible!
Below are words from Ashley about their struggle and heartbreak during the first round of IVF.
| I’m d e v a s t a d e d. It’s with a broken heart that I share with you the details of how we began 2019.
This past Wednesday we got the call that our 1 embryo is not viable to transfer. We only had enough money to do IVF once. I thought surely it would work. I had not entertained the idea that it wouldn’t happen, I couldn’t.
Honestly to get through the last couple days I’ve had to ignore my reality, because when I do think about my life long desire to be pregnant with my husband’s child can’t happen... well I weep.
The grief that I’m experiencing I would relate to loosing someone you love, where you grieve all the memories you had & won’t have. For me, I’m grieving all the moments I won’t get to have, the moments I’ve dreamt about having since I was a teenager. People would ask me when I was in high school what I wanted to be when I grow up & I proudly said, "a mom”
I don’t understand why God didn’t allow our one embryo to be strong enough to transfer. I’ve had to wait a long time for some important things in life, one of those being my amazing husband, but I always had hope that someday I would get married. And that day came! I waited a long time to have a baby, IVF is our only way to be pregnant, without IVF all hope for a child together is gone.
Our doctor did say that with my round of IVF I had all the right numbers & bloodwork for my age, she said that with a slight modification to the plan she really believes we could conceive with a 2nd round of IVF. The doctor later talked to the finance department & said if we decide to do a 2nd round it would be 20% off. While that is really great of them, we don’t have anything close to being able to do a 2nd round.
My current state of grief when I’m not weeping is figuring out how we can come up with the money. (Due to my age, time is not on our side, so saving & trying in a few years is just not an option.) I’m trying to grasp for hope that my deepest desire to give birth to my child is not over. I’m looking into grants or scholarships for IVF. Pray with me that somehow, we will be selected for a scholarship!
Wish this was just a bad dream & I’d wake up looking forward to Feb 20 when we were suppose to transfer our embryo.
#ivffail #ivfjourney #yunkerivfstory|
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Ashley Yunker
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