08/01/2025
Unfortunately things don’t always go how you plan them to…
I took this break from Hey Bubba back in November to relax and rewind after our Chemical Pregnancy. What I didn’t tell you all is that we did one last sneaky round of IUI which resulted in our miracle second rainbow baby pregnancy. We were beyond excited to finally complete our family but unfortunately at our 7 week scan, we discovered our baby did not have a heart beat. They had stopped growing only 2 days earlier.
We were absolutely shattered. Just when we thought we had finally beaten infertility for the second time, when we thought our family would finally be complete.. Infertility claimed another one of our babies. This was not our first miscarriage, it was our first missed miscarriage.. and the fact we thought we were finished and done and then having it all taken away from us only 2 weeks before Christmas was devastating.
I really wanted to get on here and create a video of our journey but I still don’t have the heart to get in front of the camera and talk to my beautiful Bubba Family without crying.
We were sure this was the end for us.. we just can’t afford any more fertility treatments. We are now almost $70k deep after taking 6 years to get Hunter and now a second. I don’t mind talking money, because it just shows those who are lucky enough to not have this burden just how tough it can actually be.
Fortunately, we are in the process of accessing my superannuation so that we can do one final round of IVF with genetic testing. This will tell us if we have a chance at getting pregnant or not as our embryos seem to just mutate once that grow and miss chromosomes due to our age (39). IVF and genetic testing is our only hope.
Because of this, I have decided to extend Hey Bubba’s holiday period indefinitely so that I can focus all of my attention on getting my mind, body and soul ready for this very last run down the gauntlet of infertility. I plan to reopen, but in all fairness I don’t know when. It could be July, it might be December, life is so uncertain at the moment.