Jenna Farmer almost gave up hoping that she would have a baby. Then she fell pregnant.
34-year-old Jenna has Crohn’s disease, and due to this her GP referred her for early fertility tests. It turned out she had a low egg reserve.
She’d been trying to get pregnant for a year, and thanks to there being no IVF waitlist in her area she was seen quickly.
Unfortunately, her IVF cycle failed.
She told Metro.co.uk: ‘I had one cycle which failed. It just didn’t work at all. But I was weirdly optimistic, just because we hadn’t been trying that long and my only issue was the AMH – everything else and husband was fine.
‘I just thought it would be fine. Obviously it doesn’t work like that as it’s just a numbers game.’
Jenna and her husband had one frozen embryo left and she saw this as her last chance to get pregnant.
‘I remember thinking if a team of doctors couldn’t make me pregnant it wasn’t even worth trying naturally as there’s no way it could happen,’ she explained.
‘I definitely felt like it wouldn’t happen, my partner was calmer and felt what would be would be.’
But just before her second cycle of IVF, something incredible happened: Jenna fell pregnant naturally.
She had been starting to see an acupuncturist in preparation to try IVF with the frozen embryo that September. She and her husband had not been trying for a child as they were waiting for that procedure.
It was such a busy month that Jenna and her husband only had sex once that month – but it just so happened that was when she became pregnant.
Jenna was over the moon when she found out.
She said: ‘I was just in shock and it took a long time to believe, my husband was a lot calmer and happier.’
Despite living with a chronic illness, Jenna says her pregnancy was great.
Due to her Crohn’s disease, Jenna had lots of support and was under a consultant. She was also given lots of scans – which she says she loved.
She added that she had an easy pregnancy, explaining: ‘He was a textbook pregnancy with no problems. I was anxious in the first trimester but he was such a mover and kicker that he literally never stopped once I could start feeling him so I never felt anxious then.’
Jenna describes the whole pregnancy as being ‘surreal’. She was given a planned C-Section, which she says didn’t give her that ‘instant emotional moment’ as her brain was just trying to catch up with the fact a baby had just come out of her body.
‘It took me a few minutes to get my head around it,’ she said.
‘He is almost seven months now and is a very happy baby.’
When asked if she had any words of advice for other women who are trying and struggling to get pregnant, Jenna says: ‘I won’t say that it will happen when you least expect it, as that drove me crazy.
‘I will say everyone has a story. At my antenatal class almost everyone had struggles to conceive and about half had their baby via IVF.
‘You feel like you’re so different from other couples who you imagine conceived instantly but everyone has a story, they just don’t talk about it.’
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source https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/30/chronically-ill-woman-has-her-miracle-baby-after-failed-rounds-of-ivf-11241051/
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