In a new essay as told to People, Keizer-D’Anna says that getting pregnant with her first child was no trouble at all.
But just two years later, the Mount Vernon, New York, couple began a 10-year journey to conceive that has brought with it a series of devastating heartbreaks.That was followed by an emotional D&C and genetic testing, which showed the cause was chromosomal. After three failed IUIs, they made the decision to switch to IVF. But unfortunately, that too would become a long, difficult, and painful process."After nine egg retrievals, 12 transfers, four clinics, six surgeries , an attempt to remove my uterine septum, 60 lbs. of weight gain from the various medications and much more, I was lucky to get pregnant via IVF in October 2017."
"It was three months of pure hell, and I did it two times," Keizer-D'Anna shared."It was all very costly and I Finally, the couple were advised to try donor eggs -- something that Keizer-D'Anna admits was a difficult and emotional decision. They decided to try IVF -- one last time -- and went for a final retrieval in April of 2019. From that retrieval, they extracted two viable embryos. Although Keizer-D'Anna says they are both of"OK quality," they haven't been genetically tested, and aren't likely to be.