Five Strands of Hope

Biography & Memoir
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Author: Laura Hubbard Casey ISBN: 9781476485584
Publisher: Laura Hubbard Casey Publication: July 4, 2012
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Laura Hubbard Casey
ISBN: 9781476485584
Publisher: Laura Hubbard Casey
Publication: July 4, 2012
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

FIVE STRANDS OF HOPE is about my journey from infertility, a horrendous triplet pregnancy to the birth of healthy triplets. Along the way, we faced varicocele surgery, miscarriages, failed IUIs, IVF, a quadruplet pregnancy that naturally reduced to triplets, preterm labor, incompetent cervix, gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia that occurred after the delivery.

After I suffered a heartbreaking miscarriage and three failed artificial insemination attempts, my first in vitro fertilization succeeded. Not only did it succeed, but with triplets! My joy was unbounded.

Then, at twenty-one weeks, I learned that my cevix was as thick as five strands of hair. If it collapsed under the pressure of triplets, my water would break and my babies wouldn't survive. When my doctor advised me to abort, my husband and I wouldn't consider it. My body was at fault, not my babies. I would do anything to give them a chance.

But that meant taking medication that could irrevocably damage their tiny hearts and possibly end their lives before they began. Then I had to make a choice no woman should be asked to make.

This is my story, but unfortunately it is not just mine. There are millions of women who have suffered infertility, preterm labor, miscarriages and worse.

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FIVE STRANDS OF HOPE is about my journey from infertility, a horrendous triplet pregnancy to the birth of healthy triplets. Along the way, we faced varicocele surgery, miscarriages, failed IUIs, IVF, a quadruplet pregnancy that naturally reduced to triplets, preterm labor, incompetent cervix, gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia that occurred after the delivery.

After I suffered a heartbreaking miscarriage and three failed artificial insemination attempts, my first in vitro fertilization succeeded. Not only did it succeed, but with triplets! My joy was unbounded.

Then, at twenty-one weeks, I learned that my cevix was as thick as five strands of hair. If it collapsed under the pressure of triplets, my water would break and my babies wouldn't survive. When my doctor advised me to abort, my husband and I wouldn't consider it. My body was at fault, not my babies. I would do anything to give them a chance.

But that meant taking medication that could irrevocably damage their tiny hearts and possibly end their lives before they began. Then I had to make a choice no woman should be asked to make.

This is my story, but unfortunately it is not just mine. There are millions of women who have suffered infertility, preterm labor, miscarriages and worse.

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