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Growing Our Family in a Unique Way

~We’re a fun-loving family who enjoys the great outdoors together!
~We’re a Christian family who is currently attending a Baptist church, but has a Catholic, Assemblies of God, & Reformed background.
~We have politically conservative values.
~We want a large family but have come upon some devastating issues over the years.

Snapshot of my life and family:
We have been married for 8 years. My husband works at an internet company as a Fixed Wireless Engineer (he climbs towers to supply internet to rural areas). I am a work-at-home business owner, providing virtual assistance (emails, customer service, website design, bookkeeping, etc.) to natural health professionals. I homeschool our children as well!
We are Christians who are highly involved with our church and relationship with Jesus.
We enjoy the great outdoors! Our main hobbies include camping, hiking, and kayaking. We like playing board games and reading as well. My husband is a self-proclaimed nerd who does play role-playing games with his friends one evening every-other week.
Our church has a weekly kids program during the school year where they learn memory verses, listen to Bible stories, and play games. Our kids love going there! We also have them play homeschool soccer in the fall, and attend other homeschool activities and field trips.
We live in the country on just under 4 acres. We have a dog, barn cats, and lots of chickens (if my chicken math is correct, about 20…ish). We do not have animals in the house.
We're really an easy-going, down to Earth family who loves children.
Fertility story:
When I was in elementary school, I knew I wanted a large family 12+ children. When I was in middle school, I had a very vivid vision of a little Asian girl, and I could hear the words, “This is your daughter”. 3 things happened with that vision. 1. I instantly knew that was God talking to me. 2. I became a mother in my heart at that young age. 3. I knew at that moment that I would be adopting in the future.
When my husband and I met, and were getting to know each other, I informed him of my vision and of my desire to have many children. He was all on board! He said, “I’m perfectly fine with a bunch of kids as long as I don’t need to get a CDL to drive my family around”. He is such a goofball! With that said, we’ve had 13 kids in mind (13 kids and 2 adults fit into a 15 passenger van, haha!).
After we got married, we had no problems getting pregnant.
~The first pregnancy was fantastic and the delivery was pain-free.
~Our second pregnancy and delivery was ironically even better!
Just a note to say, we always prayerfully consider HOW to grow our family whenever we’re ready to expand. Especially because of my middle school vision. We did hear about embryo adoption at this point, but being we weren’t having issues, we didn’t think it was for us – but did think it was a really cool and unique way to grow a family for those who didn’t want to go the IVF route.
~Our third pregnancy ended up being a miscarriage of twins.
~Our fourth pregnancy ended in a very rare type of ectopic pregnancy where the baby attached to the outside of the upper-right side of my uterus. I won’t go into the whole story right now, but basically, there was a point where the doctor’s only option left was surgery, and they didn’t think they could save my uterus. We prayed so hard and did not feel comfortable with the surgery, so we opted to be monitored while trying some alternatives. From the time we were diagnosed with the ectopic pregnancy to the time we were cleared to try again, was a whole year. But I have my uterus.
~Our fifth pregnancy ended in miscarriage.
~Our sixth pregnancy, with all the issues before, I got a blood test right away and another a couple days later. In that time, my progesterone dropped in half to the point where the midwives and doctors didn’t think the baby would make it. But I went on a progesterone suppository anyway and the numbers kept rising! We did an early 8-week ultrasound and there was a heartbeat! There was also an issue. The baby was separating from the wall of my uterus and was just barely holding on. We got all of our prayer warriors praying (multiple churches, most of our family members, all of our friends, even a couple Christian radio stations – we were all praying!). Our baby was so well prayed for that she decided to stay in for 2 extra weeks (at some point we had them all praying for her to get out!). Her delivery was actually a painful delivery, but we are blessed to have our miracle baby!
~Our seventh pregnancy, with the issues from the previous pregnancies, I got on progesterone right away. At the 8 week ultrasound, there was a gestational sack with no baby (blighted ovum). After much research, we found a number of testimonies where they found the baby at an ultrasound a few weeks later, so I stayed on progesterone just in case. The 11 week ultrasound showed the same thing. A gestational sack with no baby. So I quit progesterone and waited for the miscarriage to start. It ended up starting about 1.5 weeks later, but I ended up hemorrhaging and having to go into the ER for an emergency D&C.

Needless to say, we have been devastated by all of our losses. We're extremely grateful for the children we do have. And yet we have this desire in our hearts for a large family.

The doctor said I have a fantastic uterus with no lumps or bumps and I should have no problem holding a baby. Though we haven’t gone through fertility testing, we’re thinking we have a form of secondary infertility. Blighted Ovums typically mean there’s a chromosome issue. And we know about the progesterone issue. So our issues have been, getting the baby to implant INSIDE the uterus, progesterone issues (which is easily supplemented by a suppository until about 13 weeks pregnant), and potential chromosome issues.

With all of that said, we’ve prayerfully considered closing the door on trying ourselves (not necessarily slam the door shut and lock it, but maybe just lightly keeping it just barely cracked).
Infertility diagnosis or N/A:
N/A
Do you have any children? (If so please explain) 3 natural conception/births
Marital status: Married
My Information:
I Am: Female
My Age: 31 - 35
My Race: Caucasian
My Eye Color: Blue
My Hair Color: Medium Brown
My Education/employment info: AAS & Traditional ND / Self Employed
Partner Information: (Or N/A)
My Partner Is: Male
Partner Age or N/A: 31 - 35
Patner Race or N/A: Caucasian
Partner Eye Color or N/A: Hazel
Partner Hair Color: Medium Brown
Partner education/employment info or N/A: BS / Fixed Wireless Field Engineer
INFORMATION ABOUT THE EMBRYO(S) - If you are a RECIPIENT choose N/A.:
Was an egg donor used or N/A? N/A
Was sperm donor used or N/A? N/A
Any other children? (If so please explain) N/A
How many embryos do you have available to donate? N/A - I am a Recipient
Name or city/state of clinic/facility where embryos were created: N/A
Name and city/state of clinic/facility where embryos are stored: N/A
Overall embryo batch quality: N/A
Final Thoughts (This are is for both embryo donors and embryo recipients. Please clarify any answers from above or include any info you would like to share):
As stated before, we’re totally open to international adoption, and we do want to pursue that in the future (Lord willing, from multiple countries), but I'm suppose to be at my prime baby carrying age, and with international adoptions taking 2-5+years per adoption, we don't want to miss out on growing our family through pregnancy. So we're pursuing embryo adoption first as a means to grow our family. We know at this point, we probably don’t have enough baby-carrying years to have 13 kids, so we’re holding the number of children with open hands. Ideally, we’d be able to adopt maybe 6-8 embryos (whether from one family, or from multiple families with fewer embryos). Then transfer 2-3 at a time (we’re perfectly fine having multiples).

What we do know is, we love babies and kids, we love adoption, the door to us having more kids that are genetically ours seems to be closing, and we (well, I) love being pregnant.

We have a 7 year old, 5 (almost 6) year old, and 1.5 year old.

Thank you for reading our profile and considering us as a family for your precious embryos.

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Backpacking

Board Games

Camping

Entertaining

Flea Market

Gardening

Music

Singing

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