The Start of the Journey

Let us introduce ourselves:

My name is Anne-Marie, I am 26 years old and am married to Patrick, who is 33.

We have been together almost 6 years and got married in August, 2008.

After 3 years of trying to become pregnant and experiencing losses, we began fertility tests in November 2009.
The final results were revealed to us in May 2010, 'natural pregnancy is not going to happen, ICSI is the only option'

Our world fell apart, it just shattered.

Thanks to our families and our many wonderful friends, we began counselling and we contacted the Private Fertility Clinic in Cork, who instantly put our minds at ease.

It seemed all was not lost and because of my age, there was a good chance of the ICSI being successful.

However......we had to wait............and those of you who know me, know that waiting is not one of my strong points...!!!

We had to wait four weeks for our first consultation, but we had plenty to do while we were waiting, with blood tests and the like.

We continued with our counselling sessions, which helped us to deal with the feelings of uncertainty that we were experiencing.

We also did a lot of research on IVF and ICSI, a lot of it seemed impossible to understand. I made a lot of calls to the Clinic in Cork during this period of waiting, and they were just fantastic, they answered all of our questions and put our minds at ease every time.