{"id":50212,"date":"2017-12-27T13:37:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T11:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juanacrespo.es\/esther-la-ovodonacion-me-dio-la-oportunidad-hijo-sano\/"},"modified":"2022-10-31T14:53:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:53:20","slug":"egg-donation-gave-me-the-chance-have-healthy-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.old.juanacrespo.es\/en\/egg-donation-gave-me-the-chance-have-healthy-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Esther: Egg donation gave me the chance to have a healthy child"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI was filled with doubt at first, but it\u2019s a baby you feel inside, you feed with your energy, you\u2019ve given birth to…it\u2019s my child and you forget that the first cell is not yours because all the others are.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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This is Esther\u2019s story. A woman who, aged 46 and after plenty of suffering, managed to become a mother due to egg donation<\/strong>. It\u2019s a true, challenging story, but with a wonderful ending. Esther wanted to share her story to help other women or couples going through the same thing.<\/p>\n

Esther and Manuel’s story<\/span><\/h2>\n

Esther and Manuel, like many couples, met in their thirties and soon shared the same goals: living together and a family. They\u2019d been trying for a baby<\/strong> since 2005, but it wasn\u2019t happening. Instead, a cold, hard diagnosis was forthcoming.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.juanacrespo.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ester-AUDIO-2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Like her sisters, Esther was diagnosed as a carrier of Fragile X syndrome<\/strong>, a genetic disease that can cause intellectual disability in offspring and possible premature ovarian failure (early menopause)<\/strong> in female carriers.\u00a0 Despite being 35 and after several Artificial Insemination treatments<\/strong>, her only option to become a mother was egg donation.<\/strong><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.juanacrespo.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ester-AUDIO-3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Accepting egg donation treatment<\/span><\/h2>\n

For Esther and her husband, this was a devastating blow. They considered not having children. With the help of a friend who became a mother through egg donation<\/strong> and based on her sister\u2019s opinion that egg donation<\/strong> was an opportunity that science had made available to become the mother of a healthy child, she decided to go ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s common among couples who must resort to egg donation<\/strong> to undergo a process of acceptance. Surrounding yourself with other couples who have gone through the same thing and accurate information helps to change how you view the procedure and see it as an opportunity instead of a sentence,\u201d our psychologist explains.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.juanacrespo.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ester-AUDIO-4.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

The importance of experience in highly complex cases<\/span><\/h2>\n

Esther began her egg donation<\/em> treatment in Barcelona with great enthusiasm, but without success. Only 3 embryos were obtained even though there was no sperm problem. In the third and final cycle, she achieved the positive beta that soon became a miscarriage according to her doctor. After a month of continuous bleeding and severe abdominal pains, her doctor mentioned a possible ectopic pregnancy, which prompted her to bring forward the appointment with Dr Crespo scheduled for several months later.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Ester arrived at the practice in May 2016, I encountered a woman in a serious condition. During the ultrasound in the first visit, we saw she had an ectopic pregnancy and with a hematosalpinx that meant the tube was about to burst. She also had an excess of fluid in the right tube, a hydrosalpinx resulting from a previous infection. We didn\u2019t even finish the visit. By midday, we scheduled an urgent Salpingectomy (surgical removal of the fallopian tube) for both tubes. Fortunately, within a week Esther felt fine and was back to normal,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Dr Crespo<\/a> told us.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.juanacrespo.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ester-AUDIO-5.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Personalised strategy for egg donation cases<\/span><\/h2>\n

In June 2016, barely two months after Esther and Manuel had an emergency visit to the Equipo Juana Crespo, the process of searching for a specific donor began. Her treatment strategy also included uterine metroplasty (correcting a “T” shaped uterus, removing polyps and cleaning fibrosis) by surgical hysteroscopy,<\/strong> performed by\u00a0Dr<\/a> Fortu\u00f1o<\/a>\u00a0and his surgical team. In about two months, Esther was ready to start her personalised cycle and begin embryo transfer with the perfect uterus.<\/p>\n

Ten embryos were obtained. Eight were of very good quality. In early October 2016, two blastocysts were transferred to her. On 19 October, Esther told us from Barcelona that her beta had yielded 777.6 mIu\/me<\/p>\n

After a ten-year journey, the dream became true<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

On 2 June 2017, Heracles was born, a gorgeous baby boy. His parents are head over heels in love with him.\u00a0 When we spoke to Esther, she said that from the outset, she was sure she\u2019d achieve her dream. Over this period, as with many of our patients, we have established a really special bond. Esther is a first-time mother at 46, but we\u2019re sure she\u2019ll soon be back to visit us and expand the family. She has 6 wonderful embryos waiting for her at her home in Valencia<\/p>\n

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Esther, con 35 a\u00f1os, se hundi\u00f3 tras conocer que debido a su s\u00edndrome de X-fragil ten\u00eda una menopausia precoz y solo podr\u00eda ser madre con ovodonaci\u00f3n. Hoy le parece absurdo y est\u00e1 muy feliz con su hijo Heracles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66,55,53,915],"tags":[44,52,39,51,64,43],"class_list":["post-50212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-informacion","category-prensa","category-testimonios-opiniones","tag-bajas-respondedoras","tag-endometriosis","tag-esterilidad-desconocida","tag-mala-calidad-ovular","tag-ovodonacion","tag-uteros-patologicos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old.juanacrespo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old.juanacrespo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old.juanacrespo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.juanacrespo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.juanacrespo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.juanacrespo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50215,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.juanacrespo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50212\/revisions\/50215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.juanacrespo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.old.juanacrespo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.juanacrespo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.old.juanacrespo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}