'For us, and many other couples like us, getting pregnant wasn’t that simple at all.' realwomenrealstories
with a Reproductive Endocrinologist at the UCSF Center for Reproductive Health to get checked out. I had my sperm analyzed, while Ying had to endure a battery of tests, scans, and bloodwork in order to fully evaluate her reproductive system. Everything came back normal, meaning the diagnosis was “unexplained infertility,” which is exactly what it sounds like: there was no obvious explanation for why we were having trouble getting pregnant.
However, none of those less invasive treatments worked for us, and our anxiety started increasing. We started imagining all the possible reasons for why pregnancy just wasn’t happening. Ying worried that she partied too much in college and that this was her body’s way of getting back at her. I worried that maybe I drank too much coffee every day, or that the weekend beers were ruining my sperm.
Eventually, we reached the point during the slow and torturous journey of uncertainty where we were finally ready to begin IVF. A single round of IVF typically costs tens of thousands of dollars, but thankfully, my health insurance was able to cover one round; after that, we’d be on our own. Multiple rounds of IVF aren’t uncommon; we were told that in our case each embryo transfer had a 50-60% chance of working.
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