She came home from a dream honeymoon to find a shock letter telling her she had endometriosis.
When Lisa Pettifer, arrived home from her dream honeymoon, she sifted through the post that had arrived when she was away.Months before, she had an exploratory procedure to find out the reason behind her chronic stomach pains.
‘Four weeks came around quickly. Laying on the scanning bed, I just had a gut feeling. The room went silent and I just knew something was wrong.‘The nurse looked at me and said “I’m sorry but..” and that is all I remember her saying.’Doctors told Lisa that her baby’s stomach was larger than it’s head and it was unlikely to survive and advised her to have a termination.
In 2015, Lisa was pregnant for the third time. She experienced pregnancy symptoms so thought everything was fine and was offered her first scan at 12 weeks, as normal.She says: ‘I was unbelievably nervous, it felt like time had stood still. I could see another woman come out of the same room I was in when I had my bad news about Thomas. I was sitting there praying to god for my scan to not be in that room, but it was.
‘That afternoon after taking the medicine I became extremely poorly, I was throwing up, couldn’t keep anything down and I was in more pain than ever. A diagnosis meant she was finally able to explore treatment options – but this brought more difficult news. Lisa explains: ‘They did countless blood tests over and over again and the only thing they could find is that I had a high hormone level.
This meant that IUI treatment, where sperm is inserted into the womb in a clinical setting was not an option for them. Lisa explains: ‘They managed to get seven eggs from me, they fertilised them with Dan’s sperm and on day three they transferred two low graded embryos into my womb. The couple went back again to the fertility clinic to talk about what their options were going forward and were told by doctors to explore using a donor egg.
‘Without our knowledge my sister set up a GoFundMe page to help pay for our IVF drugs, so many friends, family and even a few people who didn’t know us donated which we will always appreciate so much.’ After taking a few weeks to think and talk about it, the couple decided that they would go ahead and use a donor.
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