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MM Assisted conception


When they married in March 2012, Sean and Maria O’Connor wanted to start their family right away. Mother Nature, however, had other plans. MM spoke to this lovely couple about their experience with IVF…


hope Where there’s


Back in 2012, this couple from Bellurgan, Dundalk knew exactly how things were going to work for them. At only 25 and 28, Maria and Sean knew they had plenty of time ahead for a family but their hearts were set on having four kids – and having them very quickly. Sean and Maria began trying for a baby


immediately but time passed and a year later they went to their doctor, who ran


tests and gave them the heartbreaking news that they would never be able to conceive naturally and would have to seek fertility assistance. ‘We were absolutely devastated,’ Maria


tells me. ‘We didn’t know anyone who had gone through this before and we felt very unsure, so we simply went to a clinic suggested by our doctor and paid over £5000 – all of our savings in fact – to undergo the treatment. ‘I underwent the treatment and then,


once the fertilised embryo was put back into my body, we had a two-week waiting game. It felt like a lifetime, but we were just so positive that it would work that we didn’t mind.’ After the two weeks, however, the


couple discovered that the pregnancy test was negative. ‘I think we were even more devastated


than we had been when we found out that we couldn’t get pregnant naturally,’ says Sean. ‘We were crushed.’ The couple applied for another round of


IVF using the embryo that had been frozen in the previous attempt. This time the two- week wait was even worse as they knew what the outcome could be.


4 Modernmum Yet again, the pregnancy test was to


prove negative. ‘We just didn’t know how to deal with it,’


Sean continues. ‘We both wanted to be strong for each other because by this time it wasn’t even an emotional roller coaster – we weren’t even going up, but we were certainly crashing down.’ ‘I was so unhappy by this stage,’ says


Maria. ‘I knew I wasn’t myself at all by this time, in fact I think I’d lost a big part of myself. I couldn’t concentrate in work and didn’t even want to go out. I just wanted to close the door and let everything sort itself out around me. I wanted to hide under a blanket. ‘Sean tried to be strong. He was busy at


work, which gave us security, but it was very hard for him to see me so hurt. I would walk out with smile on my face but he knew that wasn’t what I was feeling. If I saw a baby, I’d simply break down and had to turn away.’ Despite their heartbreak, and even


though they knew Maria wasn’t in a good place mentally, the couple decided to do another round of IVF. But, at the end of 2014, their third round of IVF in twelve months failed again.


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