What one IVF mom's rainbow baby photo doesn't show
by Melissa Willets posted in Pregnancy
Some of you have followed along with me on my IVF journey, after a life-changing pregnancy loss. Some of you also know I'm currently pregnant with a rainbow baby. I've walked in the footsteps of another IVF mom from Overland Park, Kansas named Lesleigh Cetinguc. So I was deeply moved by a profoundly-emotional letter she wrote to her newborn son on the Love What Matters website. It details her own IVF journey, her two crushing losses, and her joy at finally holding her rainbow baby, Lennon, in her arms.
Cetinguc welcomed her first son, Lochlan, via IVF, and said that experience was filled with "unabashed naivete." The process worked, and she and her husband now dreamed of adding a sibling to their family. "There were two frozen embryos remaining and we thought about them all the time," she writes. Sadly, Cetinguc's second IVF journey wouldn't be as "easy" as her first. The mom would go to hell and back before baby Lennon was born, and posed in this incredible rainbow image, captured by photographer Kelley Walker Chance.
While the picture of Lennon manages to show both the the pain of IVF and the beauty of new life, as Cetinguc writes, there's a lot we don't see:
"It doesn?t show that we had a canceled cycle just days before our scheduled transfer, and then a dilation and curettage (D&C) to correct new issues that had surfaced. It doesn?t show that our subsequent transfer worked -- th...
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