A Patient’s Journey: Hope and Determination

veena

An infertility treatment can be a nightmare. There can be physical, mental, social and financial pain involved at times. And might go through all of it while fighting the battle ‘PREGNANCY’. One thing though : whether it’s attributed to the man or the women or a combination platter of the two , or maybe nobody’s quite sure of what’s causing it typically, no matter what we torture ourselves within our own minds, it’s truly is nobody’s fault and I was living with it for past 8 years.

Let me take you through my roller coaster ride of infertility treatment which I defeated with the help of a preeminent expert Dr S.Vyjayanthi at MotherToBe.

Our journey started back at Bangalore followed by a failure in our first IVF trial. It felt like an exhausting process and was getting very stressful on the relationship. IVF was the only hope we had & this failure was devastating. And we understood there was definitely some issue that needs to be dealt with. We decided to relocate to Hyderabad. After a thorough research we found out about Dr Vyjayanthi and her prowess in this area. So without delay we booked an appointment and met her. On our very first meeting we understood it has to be only ‘HER ‘ who will be able to walk us out of this darkness.

Dr Vyjayanthi , quite an honest , caring & kind person. She radiates a persona that would make us believe in the ‘ Hope Zone ‘ for as long as possible. She advised us to try IVF right away, and we started our treatment with a-lot of confidence & positivity. Doctor & her team guided us throughout the treatment giving us the utmost care , concern & support required. Even though I had experienced IVF treatment in the past it felt like a total new venture. Treatment under doctor’s care felt very simple and comfortable with minimum medication and smooth progress. But to our surprise the result was not as we anticipated. Certainly it was very hard for both of us to accept the failure this time because of the amount of help we have received from the doctor. We were very sure it would be a closure to the pain we have been through all this while. It was a phase of denial , fear & uncertainty. We took some time to post that episode and made up our mind to give it another chance. And the doctor suggested we seek help from a counsellor amidst the next trial. And I started seeing her , she offers personalised and holistic support on the journey to become a parent. She helped me tune into what I already had. She helped me focus on what was working in my life , noticing that and how to have deep gratitude for it. And we tried for the second time with Dr.Vyjayanthi’s reassured strong belief in our case . And we became pregnant on 28- 11-2022 -; a day that changed how I see myself. It was all happiness & joy for us and to my family. And I have understood one thing that good things take time and all this happened only because of the doctor and her immense knowledge in our case. She has been very patient and understanding of us and our case , I believe that made a difference.

And I wanted to just say one thing , as women we put all of this pressure on ourselves. It’s like we have to prove how badly we want the baby to earn the baby. It’s easy to push yourself beyond what you’re really comfortable doing. It’s easy to think if I don’t do all the things it must mean I don’t deserve this baby in some way. And that just is not true. It’s important we figure out what we are comfortable with and to be at peace with it . It was so helpful in my case.

Thank you.