Why dreams become reality!

How wonderful is everything when you dream it, when you plan it…

“I will have a baby in a year”, “i will have three children”…
And when patience is different than the dream…What do tou do?

Patience? And how much?
When does the dream start to move awa?;
And if the dream takes too long to become reality?
Disappointment gains ground day by day and drowns the dream.

In my case, things were difficult. Serious oligospermia.

And i was just shy of 40…And as time went by, our dream to have a baby was becoming more and more distant.
We had our first in vitro fertilization. And the result?

Not only was it negative, but it caused ovarian hyperstimulation.
We tried again the next year. Another fresh cycle. Again nothing…We had frozen embryos and so, the same year, we attempted a frozen cycle. Negative…

Two years later, we decided to try again with the rest of the frozen embryos. Total disappointment.

 When we went to Mihalis, i was disapointed. Almost sure that nothing could be done. My dream was slowly fading…

So, we started, with Mihalis as our guide.

With a controlled pharmaceutical stimulation, i had five eggsm but only three were suitable for intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Finally, only one was fertilised. Only one! I was disapointed….
The second day, we performed the embryo transfer. A perfect quality embryo.

The embryo quality is more important than the quantity finally.

My first B-Chorionic Gonadotropin exam was 433. I was pregmant!
I was finally going to have the baby i was dreaming of.

My dream came true and i now have my baby in my arms..
Mihalis, thank you for supporting us and for not letting me give up on my dream!

Exactly right El. It is not the number of eggs that counts, nor the number of embryos that are produced after an in vitro fertilization treatment, but only the embryo quality. There were many occasions where, after an overine stimulation, we got two or even three eggs from a successful embryo, in contrast with other cycles with many eggs and embryos that did not end up in a pregnancy.

Well done for not giving up and believing in what io just explained, even though you were disapointed at first. The result proved me right.

The quality and not the quantity shape the outcome of an in vitro fertilization attempt.