Tag: Ectopic Pregnancy

If you read the last blog post you know that my last pregnancy ended up being an ectopic pregnancy in my left fallopian tube. The process to help resolve this issue was done at both Christiana Care and RAD.

At Christiana Care I was administered a dose of Methotrexate. Methotrexate is a Chemotherapy and Immunosuppressive drug. This was used to help dissolve the pregnancy so I wouldn’t need to get surgery (removal of fallopian tube). To be honest it made me feel sick and tired!!!

After the dose of Methotrexate I was monitored by blood work every week to make sure the pregnancy hormones were depleting at the expected levels. I did this for about a month until the test for HCG showed negative.

Now it feels as though we’re back at square 1.

I did have a very promising telemedicine appointment with Dr. McGuirk. She advised me that they’re scared I may have another ectopic pregnancy if I were to try to conceive naturally again. So we talked out our plan of action. I had 2 choices testing, then IVF OR Testing, Non Invasive surgery then IVF. I opted to try IVF without surgical intervention first.

IVF or In vitro fertilization is a process of fertilisation where an egg is combined with sperm in vitro. The process involves monitoring and stimulating a person’s ovulatory process, removing an ovum or ova from their ovaries and letting sperm fertilize them in a culture medium in a laboratory. Once the eggs become fertilized we’ll wait to see how many embryos form and freeze them and move forward.

All in all I’m very nervous and excited about our strides being made towards Baby Ransom!❤

Here’s To Future Baby Ransom 🤞🏿💙💓👶🏿