{"id":3059,"date":"2019-11-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/uncategorized\/maria-sebastian-story\/"},"modified":"2020-07-14T12:41:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T12:41:23","slug":"maria-sebastian-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olgafertilityclinic.com\/en\/news\/maria-sebastian-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A baby on the second ICSI attempt with own eggs and own sperm at O.L.G.A. Clinic after 12 egg retrievals, 16 embryo transfers and 4 IUDs in local clinics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Dear Friends, we are happy to share with you the remarkable story of Maria <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/mariakristinlindstrom\/\">@mariakristinlindstrom<\/a> and&nbsp;Sebastian, who&nbsp;has got a baby on&nbsp;the second ICSI attempt with own eggs and&nbsp;own spermat O.L.G.A. Clinic after&nbsp;12 egg retrievals, 16 embryo transfers and&nbsp;4 IUDs in&nbsp;local clinics.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"cf\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n    &ldquo;In August 2010, we decided that&nbsp;I would stop taking the pill&hellip;\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    It was nerve-wracking when&nbsp;we threw the already started pill box in&nbsp;the bin&hellip; Soon we may become pregnant and&nbsp;continue our lives with a small baby&hellip;\n  <\/p>\n<p> But&nbsp;periods continued to come, month after&nbsp;month&hellip;\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Sex became a must&hellip;\n  <\/p>\n<p> After&nbsp;a year of trying and&nbsp;lots of tests and&nbsp;checks on&nbsp;both of us, a male factor was finally found &mdash;&nbsp;Sebastian had reduced sperm mobility&hellip;\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    IVF treatment would be needed if&nbsp;we wanted to get pregnant&hellip;\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    It was a tough message to receive&hellip; But&nbsp;we go and&nbsp;do this, and&nbsp;it will all be alright&hellip;\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    It may certainly not work on&nbsp;the first try, but&nbsp;the second or&nbsp;third maybe. I remember thinking that&nbsp;way&hellip;\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    We did 3 attempts at&nbsp;an IVF clinic, 500 km from home, that&nbsp;all failed&hellip;\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    The next attempts were at&nbsp;a clinic about 230 km from the small community in&nbsp;which we live&hellip; Car journeys became a big part of our lives&hellip;\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    We got embryos back every time, sometimes of really good quality &#8230; We were often told that&nbsp;everything looked so&nbsp;good; it gave us hope and&nbsp;strength to keep going&#8230;\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    Hope is the last thing to die, so&nbsp;we lived on&nbsp;hope&hellip;\n  <\/p>\n<p> When&nbsp;5-6 ICSI treatments without pregnancy have suddenly become 11-12, we stopped and&nbsp;asked the question: &ldquo;Do we have the strength to continue? Can we really continue to get up and&nbsp;dust ourselves off many more times, when&nbsp;everything falls apart and&nbsp;anxiety grows stronger for&nbsp;each failed attempt? When&nbsp;we are repeatedly torn between hope and&nbsp;despair. No, we have to do something else.&quot;<span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;\">&nbsp;<\/span>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    <span style=\"font-size: 1.1rem;\">The expectation and&nbsp;hope of seeing a positive pregnancy test during this time was all we were fighting for!<\/span>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    <span style=\"font-size: 1.1rem;\">We decided to test insemination with donor sperm. We were assessed if&nbsp;we were suitable as&nbsp;parents etc. It was mentally very stressful. Obviously, it was emotionally tough to try to get pregnant with donated cells, but&nbsp;our longing for&nbsp;children outweighed that&nbsp;fear. A package of 4 attempts was made without results.<\/span>\n  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n    Years rolled on&nbsp;and&nbsp;in the spring of 2017, when&nbsp;12 egg retrievals, 16 embryo transfers and&nbsp;4 IUDs have been made without single pregnancy, we said that&nbsp;enough is enough.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    We can&rsquo;t continue like this! We CAN&#39;T get pregnant! There must be something wrong with me (Maria) that&nbsp;makes me unable to get pregnant&hellip;\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    BUT, before&nbsp;we give up on&nbsp;having our own children, we should to try another clinic&hellip; A clinic in&nbsp;another country&hellip; O.L.G.A. Clinic&hellip;\n  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"\/en\/news\/maria-sebastian\/\">The second part of Maria&rsquo;s and&nbsp;Sebastian&rsquo;s story<\/a> was significantly shorter and&nbsp;happier. <strong><a href=\"\/en\/news\/maria-sebastian\/\">Please read it here<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n  <br \/>\n  &nbsp;<br \/>\n  <br \/>\n  GREAT NEWS! You can also meet Maria and&nbsp;Sebastian in&nbsp;person! Maria and&nbsp;Sebastian will travel to Stockholm to tell you their story in&nbsp;Swedish in&nbsp;our <a href=\"\/en\/events\/seminar-stockholm\/\"><strong>Big Fertility Weekend in&nbsp;Stockholm<\/strong><\/a> 16 and&nbsp;17 November 14:00-16:00, Strandvagen 7A.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Maria and&nbsp;Sebastian have also kindly provided&nbsp;their contacts for&nbsp;you if&nbsp;you wish to contact them personally:<br \/>\n  <br \/>\n  <a href=\"mailto:\u200bmaria@icasveg.se\">maria@icasveg.se<\/a><br \/>\n  <br \/>\n  <a href=\"mailto:sebastian@icasveg.se\">sebastian@icasveg.se<\/a><br \/>\n  <br \/>\n  Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/mariakristinlindstrom\/\">@mariakristinlindstrom<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"phonecons\">\n  Please register and&nbsp;join any of the two dates at&nbsp;14:00 as&nbsp;long&nbsp;as&nbsp;seats available.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"phonecons\">\n  <a class=\"ui button\" href=\"\/en\/events\/seminar-stockholm\/\">Register Now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A baby on the second ICSI attempt with own eggs and own sperm at O.L.G.A. 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