Campaign Story

Our names are Tanner and Leah Rose. For the past three years, we have had unexplained infertility. We knew something was wrong when we had been trying for a year and we had NEVER gotten a positive pregnancy test. We were stationed in Germany at the time and had been told that fertility clinics in Europe were the best in the world. We got a referral to go to IVF Saar in Germany for diagnostic testing. We had the WORST luck. It took us 6 months to even get in for an appointment due to their back log of patients. Therefore, we decided to do our own research. We found out that Greece had VERY successful rates for IVF. We decided to get have our initial consult with a fertility clinic there. We knew our time in Germany would be cut short (Tanner was medboarded from the military and we were being told he would not be command sponsored so we were waiting for the “NO” and to get order back in the states) so we had to start IVF or IUI now. We looked up the statistics on both and IVF had way better chances. We decided to have our first IVF collection in June 2022. It was a SUCCESS and we ended up with 8 embryos. We decided to move forward with our first transfer. We had our first transfer on September 15, 2022 and 6 days later we had our FIRST EVER POSITIVE. We were so excited and just so thrilled to FINALLY BE PARENTS ❤️. Little did we know a week or two later I would get the news that it was a chemical miscarriage. We decided not to give up and try for another transfer. We knew at this time we would be leaving soon and if we wanted to try again, we had to do it now. We had our second transfer, and it failed. We were completely heartbroken! To this day, we still have no clue why this happened with both transfers. We ended getting stationed in California in January 2023. My primary doctor here wanted to do the full work up and had me referred to California IVF to see if we could get an answer to our unexplained infertility. After all the tests, we found out that now Tanner is dealing with male factor infertility. He has low morphology and due to it, he recommended IVF again with ICSI and wanted to start new. He also wanted us to go through genetic testing and have the eggs collection from collection to be genetic tested as well. He wanted to do the egg collection all over again. We had already spent $10,000 in Greece and we knew it would be way more expensive here. We decided to take a loan out for $20,000 (1 egg collection and 1 transfer). Leah just recently had her egg collection. We didn’t get the best news. 8 of our embryos stopped growing. Only 1 made it and due to Leah’s past implantation failures, the fertility specialist wants her to do the egg collection again. We are heartbroken all over and so stressed out.
We never expected for this to happen and now having to pay for the meds and egg collection all over again and we just can’t afford it.

The egg collection is an additional $8,500 and the additional injections are around $5,000 we weren’t budgeting to pay.

We thought long and hard about this but we are hoping our story will help others. Even if you can only give $5, we would be forever grateful. We are just wanting to be parents and having to deal with money stressors is making Baby Rose harder to achieve. Love, Tanner and Leah Rose 🥺❤️