My husband, Chris, and I were married in 2003. We had everything planned out and mapped out to a T. I was a planner and I didn’t want anything to happen before we were financially or physically ready for it. I wanted to top out on the pay scale by getting my 40 hours over my masters program. We decided in 2005 we were ready to start trying to create our little family. We tried for 2 years before I headed to my OB for help. They put me on clomid, did the dye test, and my husband was checked. We did this for 3 months before my OB sent us to an RE here in the Kansas City area. Immediately, we were overwhelmed but were excited as the doctor thought we would be an easy case and we would start our first IUI in September. She also said that she believed that I had PCOS which could be part of our problem. We knew this was going to work.
At the first IUI, I took oral medicine to increase my eggs and make them grow. Things were looking good, but the follicles weren’t big enough. We went back for another appointment and they had disappeared. I was beyond frustrated to say the least, but the doctor said that she now knew what we needed to do. We did two more rounds of IUI, where it didn’t work. Then we decided to try the injectable drugs to really increase our chances, in January. We had to put everything to a halt as I had cysts, but the next month we did the IUI and we were pregnant. We were over the moon. However, something happened and we lost the baby. After emergency surgery, we were back to square 1 onthe infertility front, but the doctor said that we now knew that I could get pregnant and I would be pregnant in no time. After 4 rounds of failed IUI’s, the doctor called it quits on us. We were crushed and had no hope.
After taking a few years off, we decided to try acupuncture which really normalized my body. I am a teacher and I believe that people are put into your life for a reason. I had a set of triplets in my class and I got to become friends with the mom. Finally, at Thanksgiving of that year, she and I sat down and talked about her journey and I shared my frustrating journey with tears in my eyes. I knew after hearing about her success story with Dr. Ahlering, that maybe we should give this some thought. I called that next week and had all of my information sent to his office. We had our first appointment or consultation scheduled for over the phone after Christmas. I was a nervous wreck, but I was instantly put at ease when he called us. My husband and I just sat there listening and couldn’t believe that this man gave us over an hour of his time talking to us and making us believe, again, that maybe we could be parents. Wedecided that day we were going to do this! We went and met Dr. Ahlering for the first time and we were more confident than ever that IVF would work for us. He treated us as an individual case and really wanted to do what was best for us; which was huge.
Dr. Ahlering said that I didn’t have PCOS, which really made me believe that my old
doctor just slaps that diagnosis on people just to give people a reason behind their infertility instead of saying you have unexplained infertility. In May, we stayed near his office most of the time as my follicles were growing, but not very fast. I started to lose some hope, but Dr. Ahlering just kept saying “Good Stuff” and never gave up on us. It was just what I needed as I was scared to death that we were really going to do this. Finally, at the beginning of June, we had the green light to retrieve our little follicles. I remember him coming in that morning right before the procedure and was like are you ready and I said no, but he just smiled and said it is going to be great. That man had the best way of making my nerves relax just a bit and reassure me. Five days later, we were ready for implantation which of course was the most amazing thing to watch. Dr. A was wonderful and shared with us everything going on as we watched it on the screen. I knew then that we were going to be parents as we had come this far and I put my faith fully in this man. Just a few weeks later, we found out that we were pregnant!. Of course, we were scared to death as we had been here before, Dr. A and his nurses were wonderful in answering my emails and phone calls, as I had been here before and was scared to death. In July, we went back for our ultrasound to find out that we were having twins! He devoted so much time to us that day showing us both babies, showing us the heartbeats, and letting us enjoy the moment. I really thought my husband was going to pass out as did Dr. A, but we were in shock and happy. When we got done he gave us both the biggest hugs and said congrats. This was the last time I saw Dr. Ahlering, but I was in constant contact with him as we did lose one of our twins 10 weeks later, but we did end up with one perfect and beautiful little girl.
I can’t say thank you enough to Dr. Ahlering for completing our family. I really think he is a miracle worker as hemade our dreams come true and got us our miracle. Rest assure that you are in amazing hands with Dr. Ahlering and that man will help make your dreams come true, too.
Best of luck and don’t give up as God has a plan for you!
Becky and Chris Gempeler, Grain Valley, MO]]>