VR Baby Story!

Just want to post here for encouragement to those that may be struggling after a VR. My husband had his VR in January 2021 after his vasectomy about 1.5 years prior (yeah, we regretted it almost immediately, haha). He had a great SA 3 months after the procedure. However, my husband decided to try testosterone replacement therapy right around the time of that first SA to help him get in better shape. I knew the testosterone would not be helpful to conceiving, but did not know how much it would prevent it (he did get in great shape, though, haha). After not conceiving for 6 months, we went to a fertility doctor in August 2022. His SA was straight 0’s all the way down. I was mad (mostly at myself for not expressing my opinions on the TRT, but also at him 😆), but I knew that if God wanted us to have more children He would provide a way. Our fertility doctor put my husband on Clomid and HCG. It is pretty expensive medication so we knew we could only continue doing this for a little while, but trusted God. He went back for another SA after 3 months in December 2022. The SA was better - not straight 0’s anymore, which I was happy about- but it still did not look great to me. We scheduled an appt with our doctor to discuss the results and the path forward. Then we found out I was pregnant 5 days later!! We went to the appt we had scheduled anyway. We could tell the doctor came in preparing to give us bad news, but we stopped him and told him the news. He couldn’t believe it and called it “a miracle.” He said it could have been a bad collection that day of the SA, but he still could not believe it. I am now 14 weeks pregnant and just found that we will be having another baby girl in August. When I recount this story, I am just reminded of how faithful God was to our prayers and in His perfect timing. The whole journey was incredibly difficult and disappointing, but it showed me and my husband a lot about ourselves, each other, and taught me how to truly surrender to God’s will for our lives. At the beginning of the journey, I was so anxious all the time about whether I was pregnant or not and trying to control every variable to conceive that I could personally. By the time I got pregnant, I had truly given up having more children into His hands realizing how little I can control things. Anyway, I hope this post was encouraging to someone in the middle of this mess. I had to get off Glow for a while, because it was just too hard to post that AF had come AGAIN despite every pregnancy symptom in the book. But this community can be so uplifting when things are hard, so I hope this helps someone to keep up the fight! 💕