Since I was 12 I’ve been saying that I want to have children, some little twins and another adopted one. Giving birth always scared me and this was the way of only going through it just once. My family background and that of my husband had no precedents for being able to have a twin pregnancy, so I never thought about achieving it.

Assimilating the situation

I consider myself to be a strong person, a warrior, a fighter, but… an IVF? I fell apart as I’d never done before. I didn’t stop crying for a month. I kept seeing children and pregnant women on every corner. It began to be an obsession, and nobody knew anything yet. The silence was killing me.

Beginning the treatment

After toying with the idea for 4 months, the big day arrived. My first appointment in IVI. 19th September 2007. I was calm, but it turned out that my ovaries had failures all over. The problems kept growing and we still had just one option: IVF.

The goose that lays the golden eggs

We decided to vitrify the ova (eggs) and accumulate them until we had the necessary amount. We were going into unknown territory again. When we thought we were going down the final straight, we had really only just begun. Sometimes it seemed as though this was going to be endless, one puncturing after another, and we would never reach the end. It was often uphill going, why kid ourselves now!! At other times, I learnt to laugh at myself, and my family re-named me “the goose that lays the golden eggs”. Laughing about things makes them easier to cope with, so… Why not give it a try? We had to be positive to the end. What if we only managed to get one ovum? It was certain to be a good quality one. What if a puncturing went badly? The next one would certainly go superbly.

The much awaited day

On one hand you want it to all be over by now. It’s too much time, too many hormones. But there’s another part of you in which a fear appears that you’ve never felt before.

One day I said to my gynaecologist something that I repeat today:

THANK YOU FOR LETTING US FULFIL A DREAM. THANK YOU FOR LETTING US DREAM. THANK YOU, IVI VIGO.