Alayna and Fisher Powell’s baby Infertility Journey
Infertility is something nobody ever asks for. Infertility is a lot of things but our journey is the most heartbreaking, emotional, scared, faith testing thing i/we have/are going through. We are not asking for no pittyness, we want people to simply know our story/testimony so maybe it will help someone else out there.
After 3 round of Failed IUI’s (Intrauterine insemination) medical treatments.
Our next step in our journey is IVF (In vitro fertilization) to have a baby. Which is where they will take my eggs and his sperm to create a baby in a lab. Unfortunately insurance does not cover a penny and everything is out of pocket as it will cost us around $30k. We were given a 98% success rate if we continue with IVF. Of course no infertility treatment is 100% guaranteed. BUT that’s where faith, hope and lots prayers comes in.
If you are able, we would never be able to thank you enough for giving to our IVF fund goal. If you are unable to do so, all we ask is your prayer and encouragement as we take this next step. we know we can’t do it without our friends, family, our community and believers beside us.
So after 4 years of our infertility journey we are still in our waiting season till God’s plans are fulfilled.
We have grown tremendously in our Faith and have been very blessed to have family, friends and our church by our side.
In sharing our story/hearts we hope it leads people to never stop believing no matter how hard the road gets. God will never leave your side, he loves you, he has a plan for you. Trust in HIM. God has such a beautiful and wonderful plan for us and you no matter how that may look.
Since I was a little girl I’ve always dreamed of being a momma and having a family of my own. Well my biggest fear in life of not being able to conceive a child and becoming a momma became my reality. Knowing my body doesn’t work like it’s suppose too is heartbreaking knowing my body failed me to give my husband a child as it’s his dream to become a dad just as bad. Once fisher and I got married in June of 2021 we prayed and knew we both wanted to start a family. At the time we were 18 and 19 years old. We both grew up very fast and we had a house, great jobs (own businesses), vehicles, a wonderful relationship with God and just knew we were ready to start a family of our own. At the time, we never knew we were about to start a journey that would change our lives.
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Medical journey:
After a year trying to convince and unsuccessful I made an appointment with an OBGYN doctor… (let me just say Nobody knows your own body like you do..I always had a gut feeling something was wrong with me but never knew/couldn’t figure out what it was) once I made an appointment, the doctor brushed me off, didn’t give me any options and told me nothing was wrong with me that “I had my whole life to have a kid”, that was a punch in the gut and a feeling that I as a person didn’t matter to that doctor. Fast forward to almost two years of infertility, I made an appointment with a different doctor and she actually listened, cared and prescribed me medication to make me have a cycle each month and try to help us conceive. My wants mattered to that doctor no matter my age.
After being on medication for a little over a year, making it 3 years of unable to have a baby we knew it was time to take a big step and get answers and our dream we’ve always wanted (a baby). We did lots of praying and researching. We knew everything here forward was not going to be cover by insurance and everything will be coming out of pocket. We decided to go to Positive Steps Fertility Clinic in Shreveport LA. God definitely lead us in the right path going there. The staff there are absolutely amazing, sweet and caring, they treat us like family from the beginning. We knew no matter the answers we were about to get good/bad our love for each other would only be able to grow. Fisher got tested and everything was great. I (Alayna) got tested and boy… let me just say we are very blessed and grateful that I am able to eventually conceive/carry a baby just with help of doctors, God and science. When they tested me (like I said before, I knew something was always wrong with me just never got the answers till then) there was multiple things going on. I have PCOS, wayyy too many eggs, one of my tubes are partially closed which semen can still pass through, not ovulating like I’m suppose too. Backwards uterus, etc. A huge factor is me having way to many eggs, an average woman has 24 eggs (12 on left, 12 on right) I have over 73 eggs. Some may say that’s good but it’s bad cause when my body goes to try to ovulation my eggs are fighting and non of them are really winning.
We were given a 3% chance of being able to conceive a baby naturally.
Fast forward, we decided to do 3 rounds of IUI (Intrauterine Insemination) infertility treatments. Which had around 40-50% success rate for us. After many prayers, doctor appointments, ultrasounds, medications, money…all 3 rounds failed.
It was such an emotional, heartbreaking rollercoaster.
We have wrestled with our faith, grief, sadness, patience but also have enjoyed the Joy and peace knowing our God has it all under control in his hands!
Once the IUI’s failed, we had a consultation with the doctor. At that point we were given only a 1% chance to conceive naturally without treatments.
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If you are able, we would never be able to thank you enough for giving to IVF fund goal. If you are unable to do so, all we ask is your prayer and encouragement as we take this next step we know we can’t do it without our friends, family and believers beside us.
In sharing our story/hearts we hope it leads people to never stop believing no matter how hard the road gets. God will never leave your side, he loves you, he has a plan for you. Trust in HIM. God has such a beautiful and wonderful plan for us and you no matter how that may look.
Thank you for taking the time to read our story as we are in the journey of having Baby Powell.
