Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2023 Volume 1
By A.M.
As a teenager I was convinced that I would never have children. However, something changed when I met my partner. We got married, I was relatively established in my career, we had two cats, our own place, the whole setup. For the first time, and so inexplicably intensely, becoming a parent became important to me.
We began our journey so hopefully and so incredibly naively, as many do, optimistic that we would be pregnant within a year.
I consulted with my endocrinologist who managed my Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (an autoimmune thyroid disorder) as well as my gynecologist, well in advance. Due to the nature of Hashimoto’s, thyroid function does fluctuate and, of course, my thyroid decided that now would be a good time to do so. I was told that with my numbers, there was virtually no way that I could become pregnant.
After over a year of medication dose changes, while still trying to get pregnant, we reached out to a reproductive endocrinologist for a consultation.