Dear readers, I continue to introduce you to excerpts from my book "Angels drink milk".
"You should understand that there is no diagnosis of infertility of uncertain origin, there is always a reason for not getting pregnant, and only an experienced doctor can get what that reason is. Don't believe people who say that 95 percent of infertility is due to psychological factors, just the opposite, 95 percent is due to physiological reasons!"
In
general, the persistence of some patients was surprised not only the young
gynecologist Kim Jin-Ho, but also the doctors with a huge experience, her
colleagues. Here is such a story, of course without names and surnames, one of
her colleagues, Pak Pur-Soo, shared at a seminar for doctors. She received a
letter from a Russian patient, which made her want to cry and be happy at the
same time. It was an example of the heroism of a mother who went through
everything possible with one goal-to conceive and give birth to her angel. Here
is the appealing text:
"How
I managed to give birth to our child and carry it out is known only to God.
Seven different IVF protocols in Russia and then one in Korea, which was
victorious, but what it cost my husband and me! Of course, it's not about
money…
For
those who think that you have too many diagnoses, I will write my own. I
have endometriosis[1] in the peritoneum of
the fourth degree (out of four possible), the adhesive process of the abdominal
cavity of the fourth degree, that is, the maximum, an endometrioid cyst[2] of 1,5 inches with
three cavities. A few years before the successful attempt, 3 fibroids[3] were removed: 2.4, 1.5
and 1inches. The small ones, from 0.3 to 1.3 inches remained (with them I went to
the protocol, the cyst was not removed as well). Ovarian reserve at the time of
the last protocol is about 0.3 (the norm is higher than one). Both fallopian
tubes were removed to increase the chances of IVF treatment.
Plus
to the above, I have almost formed diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance,
decreased sensitivity to insulin and, of course, obesity. For this reason, the
entire pregnancy I was injected with insulin, since from the seventh week of
pregnancy, I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus[4].
Pregnancy
up to thirty weeks in general went normally: even toxicosis was almost absent,
but they constantly told me I had low placentation of the fetus[5]. At thirty-one weeks,
I started to bleed a little pink, spent a week in a hospital. At exactly
thirty-two weeks, right during the ultrasound screening, I started to bleed. We
were urgently taken to the perinatal center. I spent the night lying in the
delivery room, thinking what to do. That night I was lucky, the birth didn't
start: I went to bed, but I never left the hospital again. At thirty-four weeks
and five days, I was transferred to a regional maternity hospital for observation
until delivery. On the same day, the nightmare began: a critical placental
abruption! The minutes counted, and the catheters were placed in my veins right
in elevator while they were takingme to the operating room. I was lucky with
the baby: the operating room and all the staff were in full alert, since it was
at this time scheduled for a planned cesarean section of another woman. They
have already started to give her an anaesthetic, but here they brought me, the
woman was urgently disconnected and wheeled out," they put me on the
table. Thanks to the coordinated actions of the doctors, I heard the first cry
of My child! It took about 30 minutes from the time of the beginning of the bleeding
to the birth of my son. If we were at home (which is unthinkable…), he would
not be born, and I would be left without a uterus at least.
Another
horror my family experienced at the end of the first trimester of pregnancy. I
was given a 1:20 risk of having a child
with down syndrome in Russia. This is a high probability! To say that I was
shockedwould be an understatement! I couldn't even cry for the baby. The only
thing that did not allow me to believe the test result and get an abortion is
that the day before I passed the first screening in Korea and underwent genetic
check up. Two weeks later, the result came "a genetically healthy child is
expected. Even at 12 weeks, my Korean doctor said that it would be a
boy. Also, after transferring two fairly average embryos, I was assigned 3
immunoglobulin IVS to prevent rejection.
The doctor decided to play it safe and, as it turned out, he was right.
We
all won together! And I wish the same results to all childless couples who are
going to take advantage of high reproductive technologies and thinking that
they have a lot of diagnoses!"
Reading
this story, you can't help but realize that any hopeless situation is just a
reason to sit down, think for a minute and start acting. Fate likes bold and positive people, as soon as you start to loose
spirits life usually changes for the worse.
[1] Endometriosis is a common gynecological disease in
which the cells of the endometrium (the inner layer of the uterine wall) grow
beyond this layer.
[2] Endometrioid
cyst is one of the types of tumor on the ovary in a woman..
[3]
Fibroid is a benign tumor in the uterus.
[4] Gestational
diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder, which is based on a lack of
formation of its own insulin and a simultaneous increase in blood glucose
levels.
[5] Placentation of
the fetus is attachment of the placenta in the lower parts of the uterus,
leading to its dysfunction as the weight of the fetus increases.
