Campaign Story

My husband, Tanner, and I have been married for 4 years. We are both teachers in our community, and love spending our free time coaching high school sports. Shortly after we got married, we both decided we wanted to start our family. We tried to get pregnant on our own for a little over a year with no success. We decided it was time to go see my OBGYN to get help. I went through 6 rounds of Clomid with no success. After trying to track ovulation, we found out that I was not ovulating, and that I have never ovulated. We were then recommended to our fertility center in Idaho Falls where we were introduced to our amazing doctors and nurses. The first month we were there, we went through many tests, and I was diagnosed with PCOS. After my diagnosis, I had a surgery to remove polyps so we could begin the IUI process. We tried 3 different IUI cycles with Letrozole and all 3 cycles were cancelled because my ovaries weren’t responding to medication. The fourth time, we took a more aggressive approach with 900 units of Follistim (injectables), Letrozole, and several other medications only to cancel it again. My ovaries were beginning to respond to the higher dosage of medicine, but we were still not were we needed to be. So after four failed attempts at IUI, we sat down with our doctor and decided that IVF is the last and final option. My body was starting to respond to a higher dosage of meds which helped us make the decision that IVF is our next step.

Our dream is to start a family, but we have been thrown a few curveballs. We do believe that this is part of God’s plan, and with trial and tribulation comes blessings. Although IVF success rates are fairly high, it was does come with a huge cost. We started this fundraiser to help cover the costs of our IVF journey, because we have already invested thousands of dollars in medication, ultrasounds, gas, labs, etc. We appreciate anything that you are willing to donate as we continue on the journey of starting our family.