My husband and I decided to complement our family with a new member, a child, and I say complement because in the history of our life we have been accompanied by two cute little dogs that, as we say, made us “dog parents.”
That process of complementing our family was difficult, more difficult than we imagined at the time. At that time I was 35 years old and had been off birth control for two years. We lived abroad and took things very calmly. Upon returning to Colombia, we consulted several doctors and they told us that we should try naturally for another year, since we were more stable here, but without achieving our goal: to get pregnant. After that we wanted to turn to a specialist and underwent our first fertility treatment. In that treatment, I was told to take medication to stimulate ovulation, but that did not work, then we had several artificial inseminations and they did not work either.
Some years passed and always with the illusion of having a child, several of our friends became pregnant and that weighed on our hearts. Mainly me, as a woman one always punishes oneself with greater force.
A relative of my husband recommended INSER as the best place to get a new treatment. The reputation and experience motivated us to take up the matter again.
I requested the appointment and we started a new process, there were several cycles, trying one thing and another. Many tears derived from the negative results. My husband and I would go out to some public place and I would see families with their happy babies, that made me suffer a lot. Each refusal was a stab to the heart and almost to the point of making me give up. Throughout this process, Dr. Juan Luis accompanied us, and when we went to the appointments I cried a lot, what’s more, my heart shrank every time we had an appointment and when I arrived at the INSER headquarters I was already with my emotions at a thousand. I could not find comfort in the words of the Doctor, nor of my husband, I wanted an answer to so many negative results.
At the end of that painful process, because I cannot say that it was easy, in fact, it was very difficult, the good news arrived: We were pregnant!
Now I am with my baby, Thomas, who is now two months old and has brightened the family and our hearts.
In conclusion, it is a very difficult process, many tears of pain, of disillusionment. You have to draw strength from where you don’t have it and get excited when all hope is lost. In our case, the reward is our beautiful baby and seeing him makes me think that everything was worth it.
Elizabeth.
