I am the proud mother of twin boys born on March 25, 2004. They are miracles to my husband and me. We tried for eight years to have a baby before they were born. I had two miscarriages, numerous IUIs and even IVF. Our first IUI (March 2000) resulted in a positive pregnancy test, and we were elated but lost that baby at 8 weeks. It was horrible. We tried more IUIs after that but no more worked.

We moved on to IVF, something I never in a million years thought I would have to do. Both of my sisters just thought about a baby and got pregnant. But our first IVF worked too (June 2001). A miracle! We saw the heartbeat at 6 weeks and were just delighted. I wanted to wait and tell the news after the 8-week ultrasound when we would be released from our fertility doctor. My parents went with us for that ultrasound. It was the absolute worst experience of my life. The ultrasound tech could find nothing, no sign of life, of our precious baby. Absolutely horrible. We all cried and I thought I would just die. Life was so not fair. It took me quite a while to get over that.

Finally, we decided to try a FET (frozen embryo transfer) with our two frozen embryos. Things went great with the transfer but it did not work. I was kind of relieved – I would rather it not work at all than go through another loss. I just did not think I could deal with it.

We waited a few more months and tried two more IUIs, with my sister becoming pregnant in the meantime (again, her third) and it was hard for me to deal with.

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