I'll share my story....
i got pregnant shortly after i got married, but lost the baby at 3mos. after a couple of months, i got pregnant again, but it was blighted ovum. so 2 miscarriages in the same year i was married.
we stopped ttc for a couple of months then went for consultation with an infertility specialist. sabi ko after the consultation, bec. i was very devastated, to wait 1 year before we start with work-up. but after a couple of months lang, we went for the treatment. so i did all the lab test, the monitoring, fertily pills, injections, hspg, the works...last was an iui, pero failure. we were considering ivf already pero held back since we were just about migrate. but at this time also, we stopped with the treatment for over a year bec. i was already getting overly depressed. at this point sabi ko bahala na lang si lord. pls. believe me when i say ang hindi ko na lang nagawa ay ang sumayaw sa obando to get pregnant.
so when we moved abroad, syempre we learned the hard way that life in another country is not actually a bed of roses. ang hirap. never ko pa naranasan so much physical work, i was exhausted by the time i get home. hubby too was already depressed since medyo nahirapan sya to get work. so just imagine the picture...
when arrived abroad, part of our plan of course after settling down is to continue with the fertility work-up. but its actually not free here except for blocked fallopian. dasal na lang ako to get pregnant. kung meron or wala, life has to go on.
but, less than a year after we landed here, lo and behold, i got pregnant. it was during the point when we both didnt have stable jobs, our savings was getting depleted as days go by. but then again syempre masaya kami kasi after all these years, we got pregnant already. hirap ako with the pregnancy bec of morning sickness, i even lost weight. but i couldnt quit work kahit sobrang physical fatigue (bec of work) kasi i have to complete a certain amount of time on work to get the benefits.
anyway, our son who is 4yrs old now, was born on december 25. truly a gift.
ps: when he died, asked for the intercession of Pope Paul II to conceive, less than a year after, i was.