I hope &#x27;brailsafe (whose jokey (and IMHO, low-effort) comment was heavily downvoted then flagged into oblivion) takes note -- this is a good example of a funny that this community appreciates.

Those race conditions are always tricky to reproduce.

A pregnancy doesn&#x27;t show up on a pregnancy test (a read operation) until after implantation and enough fetal growth to significantly impact the mother&#x27;s hormone levels.  So, there was a write (fertilization) followed by a read (pregnancy test) without any synchronizing operation.  The pre-op pregnancy test missed the pregnancy because of the race between the read and the write.

I don&#x27;t understand how this is a race condition, but I might need to check my old undergrad textbooks though. Props for the quirkyness, though! :&gt;

This is an amazing story! Classic race condition :)

The odds of this happening! Beautiful. I wish the best for Lucas and the family.

Holy shit that’s the most emotional story I’ve read on HN. My wife and I are in tears over here.

I think I read that entire post in one breath. That was an emotional train that fortunately had a good ending. May the child live a long and happy life.

Beautiful and uplifting story. Wish all of you the best of times together for the rest of your lives.

That was... one hell of a rollercoaster. All I can say is I&#x27;m glad everyone made it out alive.

(1) not all of them, apparently, and (2) it seems arrogant to claim that.

Another reason why it’s great to have many, you can round robin the one you wake up hugging in the middle of the night.

For something that supposedly loves babies, &quot;god&quot; sure enjoys spontaneously aborting them<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.biorxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;372193v1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.biorxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;372193v1</a>

God loves babies and wants us to be happy. Risked waking my 8 month old to give him a squeeze.

I call that force m&#x27;lady of large numbers and survivorship bias, or simply lady luck for short :)

It sounds like you are comparatively very religious compared to me. Rare events happen with a certain probability. What happened here was not impossible by any known law of biology or physics or whatever.

Wow I am not too religious a person but after reading this I have to say...when God (or some higher force) is with you, miracles likes this can happen.

I want to give every single person in this a huge hug. What an incredible story.I cannot imagine how excited their mother-in-law was to be there for the birth of her grandchild.

In the surgery. 5 months pregnant is VERY detectableedit: wait sry - it also says 2 weeks, so now I dont know how to read what its saying

The article mentioned it was too early to be detected

It was undetectable at the time of the surgery to remove the ovaries and Fallopian tubes.At the time of the surgery, the embryo was young enough to not be detected but old enough to be out of the Fallopian tubes and not depend on the ovaries’ hormones anymore.Older than one week, but younger than three. A two-week window.And after that surgery, I could understand not suspecting pregnancy for abdominal swelling.

In the US that would be medical malpractice. A pregnancy test would be standard before this type of surgery.That said, congratulations for the best outcome.

This is an interesting thought to entertain, but it sounds like sampling bias [0]. It&#x27;s less remarkable if a doctor tells a patient that she can&#x27;t get pregnant, and she doesn&#x27;t.[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Survivorship_bias" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Survivorship_bias</a>

Some fertility specialists will say on first consult, the odds that you could get pregnant naturally just went down as you walked through the door to my office.All because the kind of people who visit a fertility specialist have lower fertility stats than the kind of people who don&#x27;t (duh). The average practitioner doesn&#x27;t really excel at distinguishing between correlation and causation.

IMHO the surest way to get pregnant is to be told by a doctor that you can&#x27;t.

As a recent medical school graduate and a technical founder of a medical education startup, wow. This is an &quot;edge case&quot; for lack of a better phrase and is the kind of stuff that becomes widespread as lore or an interesting story - at least I&#x27;d like to think so.Thanks for sharing your story and I wish you the best with what&#x27;s next.

This is likely to be the best story I&#x27;ll read all year. Simply amazing.

Congratulations to the new addition to your family!

Hell of a story Dan! Congratulations on the new arrival and best wishes.

My Dad died after a long and difficult fight with prostate cancer that advanced to untreatable Stage 4 very quickly because of an underlying BRCA2 mutation. I&#x27;m so thankful the NHS tested him for this, and then tested my brother and I (both positive), and then sponsored IVF for my brother to concieve his first child with screening for BRCA2 mutation.He now has a five month old baby girl who doesn&#x27;t have the same coinflip requirement that BRCA2 brings girls of almost-guaranteed servere breast cancer and invasive life-changing surgery to reduce risk, and my brother and I both get MRIs at 40 and regular screening for when we (very likely) get prostate cancer.This article was such a surprise to see at the top of HN, and I urge everyone to share it as both a lovely good news story and awareness of how underlying genes can cause aggressive cancers.

It&#x27;s very important for people particularly women to test for BRCA. Men with the gene should alert female relatives.
For those women that have the gene there are non surgical options today to prevent some of these cancers.Highly recommend this documentary from PBS on the topic as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inheritance-brcafilm.com&#x2F;pbs-documentary" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inheritance-brcafilm.com&#x2F;pbs-documentary</a>

It&#x27;s almost as if there are entire lobbies that pour tons of money into PR efforts to promote those falsehoods and tarnish the reputations of those public services in order to shift public sentiment towards their privatisation!

It&#x27;s a joke - the public health services in places like Canada and the UK have a (mostly unfair) reputation for never getting anything done in a timely manner.

&gt; But the most incredible thing: when have you seen the public health service being earlier than planned?What would have changed about the pregnancy if it wasn&#x27;t earlier than planned?

Same this was going rough then so much better.

Right? In my head I had heard cancer before I clicked the article, and spoiler alert, yes, but also what a twist!

I was getting ready to read a tragedy but was pleasantly surprised by the ending.

Breathtaking! Somehow, the one upvote I&#x27;m allowed to give didn&#x27;t seem enough. I read loads of &quot;cold reality&quot; stories every morning ( I check WSJ, NYT and Bloomberg once in the morning ) and perhaps due to this conditioning, I was expecting something depressing. But this made my day.

&quot;Given that my wife didn’t recall talking with any angel lately...&quot; Haha. That was a well-written tale.

Sure, but that title would have given it away.

“Life found a way out” would’ve been a nice title for this. :)Edit: seriously, this is a fascinating account of how unexpected some life events can be, and then turn out to bring happiness that was sought but wasn’t expected.

Thanks for sharing this lovely story! Our whole family was captivated as I read it aloud :). Congrats on the birth of your son and best wishes to all!

Something tells me Lucas is going to be a bit of a procrastinator. Congratulations :)

Got damn. I was so scared to finish the article. Glad i pushed through it

Simply the most lovely thing I have read all day. All week. Hell, maybe all year. Congratulations.

Yes, I have a friend who was born months early. Doctor said he would never walk or talk, but he does both basically as well as I do. You never really know, when it comes to surrounding circumstances of one&#x27;s birth.

Probably no riskier than being born into a poor household or in developing countries etc. Which is to say that you try to control what you can, and learn to live with the rest.

What about injuries to the baby due to medicine, pain killers, or alcohol consumption? Could this be a problem?

That is an incredible story! Best wishes to the family.

Indeed.  I went through that for second kid and it was just excruciatingly bad for my wife. 28 day cycle of absolute misery and disappointment for months.  We are divorced now but I still feel bad for what she experienced emotionally.

Unless you live in a country like The Netherlands, where the first three IVF procedures are, in fact, free. I won&#x27;t disagree with you on the roller coaster of emotions, though.

I&#x27;m really happy you saved a ton of money and got what you wanted. IVF is not only mega costly, it&#x27;s also a brutal roller coaster of emotions for all involved.

Wife and I had an unlikely pregnancy ourselves.  We tried for possibly 8 years with no luck, finally we gave in and started the process to do in vitro with entailed lots of tests and everything.  Then, the day before we were scheduled to start the process (during xmas no less) and lay down a lot of $$$ for the procedure, wife takes a pregnancy test and shockingly, it indicates positive.  Kid was born healthy and happy.  I hesitate to call him some kind of xmas miracle kid, but I mean.. the context and everything really drove the point home.  :)

To be clear - I&#x27;m not demanding anything.  Only giving my opinion as an interested reader.  He or she is free to disregard, just as every comment I make here.

The author shared the story in a way that resonated with themself — using reaction gifs.It’s hard to ask them to write how they feel but tell them they can’t use reaction gifs.

Ascii, emojis and GIFs more accurately portray how I feel than the written language does. A lot of other people feel that way too. Image viruses also predate our kind of written language.

Reaction GIFs are for uninteresting or ineloquent people.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;giphy.com&#x2F;gifs&#x2F;robert-downey-jr-sigh-confused-116a8zosxwA0SI" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;giphy.com&#x2F;gifs&#x2F;robert-downey-jr-sigh-confused-116a8z...</a>

I appreciate and quite love the story, and congrats all around.But this idea of putting awful GIFs into a rather serious and interesting story has got to stop. It did nothing but cheapen and interfere with the story being told.Reaction GIFs are for uninteresting or ineloquent people. Just write how you feel!

Life.................................................................................................finds a way

who ever soul was coming - really just wants to live so so badly.
You&#x27;ll give her a good childhood. Life is about joy

Incredible story! It hits close to home for me because I am in fact a ‘miracle’ baby, although my story isn’t quite as dramatic as this one with the preventative surgery and such. My mother had many miscarriages before me (and one after). The doctors told her she would never have a child. They said it wasn’t possible. And yet here I stand!

Life finds a way to flourish even in the most difficult conditions.

No, this is incorrect.&gt; The birth control pill works by stopping sperm from joining with an egg. When sperm joins with an egg it’s called fertilization.&gt; The hormones in the pill safely stop ovulation. No ovulation means there’s no egg for sperm to fertilize, so pregnancy can’t happen.&gt; The pill’s hormones also thicken the mucus on the cervix. This thicker cervical mucus blocks sperm so it can’t swim to an egg — kind of like a sticky security guard.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.plannedparenthood.org&#x2F;learn&#x2F;birth-control&#x2F;birth-control-pill" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.plannedparenthood.org&#x2F;learn&#x2F;birth-control&#x2F;birth-...</a>

I vaguely remember misinformation about birth control in Catholic school. They told us that IUDs kill fertilized eggs.It was completely wrong.

I thought the contraceptive doesn&#x27;t prevent the pregnancy but just causes the body to menstruate regardless. So she might have been pregnant many times but this time it wasn&#x27;t terminated by mensuration? (I&#x27;m certainly not very confident in my understanding.)

I’m…not sure I follow. Are you implying that her contraceptive pill was somehow less effective against the sperm of someone else?

If the timeline of conception feels off or extraordinary, you owe it to yourself to get a DNA test. 18 years is a long time friend. Trust but verify.

Yeah, my wife an I had the conversation and decided that she was going to go off of birth control in a few weeks. Two weeks later, she missed her period.I promised to get a vasectomy on the spot.A few weeks later she learned that her sister also had an oops. They both gave birth within a few days of each other.

Yeah I always wondered what the 99% actually means. 99% of the times you have intercourse? 99% out of 100? 99% per some time frame?The pill always worried me a bit when younger because most women I knew didnt take it religiously at the same time everyday and it wasnt clear if we were then... 75% safe? 50% safe? 98% safe?I guess it was enough safe enough for me but I imagine it could have gone the other way pretty easily.

Typically, it’s 99% per year or something like that. Even with perfect use that’s a 1 in 10 chance per decade.

Who first started the conversation? I wonder if the hormones swirling through her system made her more likely to feel ready for a child. Or perhaps the pregnancy induced change in her pheromones suddenly made you feel more nurturing of her. Probably not, but it&#x27;s funny how sometimes things work out like that

Several years ago my wife and I agreed we&#x27;d actively start making a baby and quit contraceptives. She was on the pill (progestogen-only) and we&#x27;d been using it for the better part of three years. Worked fine, she took it religiously at the same time every day.So we agreed to quit, and the next day she comes to me, awkwardly, saying &quot;It worked!&quot; half-jokingly. I stared at the pregnancy test, positive and unambiguous as ever. At the second test, too.Turns out she&#x27;d been already pregnant for almost a month. That kind of contraceptive is only 99% effective. Our daughter was born eight months later.Safe to say, the missing percentage is warranted.

When my wife and I decided to try for a baby and stopped using protection, the very first pregnancy test she ever took was positive, and we weren&#x27;t sure we were reading it right because we&#x27;d never done this before. Unfortunately she miscarried pretty much immediately (fetus never developed a heartbeat).We tried again, but had no luck for several years and eventually made an appointment with a fertility clinic. Literally the very next day she tested positive, and we now have two kids.

That is quite a nice surprise! I hope your child has a joyful life.

&gt; BTW: &quot;Oopsies&quot; are common. If you&#x27;re 100% done, consider surgical birth control.Yes. Not a doctor, but according to my wife, if you previously had difficulties getting pregnant, it may be easier to get pregnant again after the first birth.

You aren&#x27;t that old. I know someone who had twins in his mid 40s. My cousin also had multiple pregnancies in her 40s.I also had my last a few months before my 40th birthday.BTW: &quot;Oopsies&quot; are common. If you&#x27;re 100% done, consider surgical birth control.

In my late 30&#x27;s, with the only indication that we were fertile at all having been an ectopic pregnancy many years before, we gave up. We had wanted kids, but our lives were good, with nieces and nephews we love.A few months before my 40th birthday - and the pandemic - SURPRISE!We are currently the proud but exhausted old parents of an increasingly rambunctious toddler.

What a heartwarming story. Wish the author all the best with the newborn!

Perhaps a model to calculate the effectiveness of birth control pills.

I&#x27;ll bite :) what&#x27;s the python code for?

I have an urgent deadline to release some crazy python code and here I am, instead, cutting onions. Beautiful way to start a day, happy life to you and your family &lt;3

Wow what a story.It reminds me of a joke we have in Spain about unlikely pregnancies. It ends with 
“If you got pregnant, we’re calling the baby McGyver”

I don&#x27;t have a great data source, but from my experience (as a woman that tried to conceive two kids), reddit has awesome communities with users that can absolutely dig out those stats for you, if they exist: r&#x2F;TryingForABaby, r&#x2F;infertility

Don&#x27;t get bogged down on statistics. They matter with large numbers, and in each cycle, you are dealing with at most a dozen or two fertilized eggs. Looking at all the stats only made us feel worse about our outcomes.My wife and I were supposedly &quot;perfect&quot; candidates (doctors were convinced we&#x27;d conceive on the first try), but it took two full cycles and a number of FETs from all of a dozen or so good quality eggs to be transferred for our two kids (with the second, we had success with our last remaining frozen embryo, so make that two cycles and 9 embryos for the first kid — basically, with first, we were extremely unlucky, but then it was two FETs and no full cycles for the second, which was a relief).Basically, for those who do get success on the first try, there have to be plenty of us that don&#x27;t for the stats to average out to what they are.

Sorry for a small hijack. We have been trying a kid for a few years, doing IVF etc. with no luck so far. An endless source of irritation to me is a complete inability of the doctors to show any kind of probability distributions for the process. So, I&#x27;d like to find data that answers questions like how many embryos are alive after n days on average and on 10th percentile etc.Does anyone know a decent data source for these kind of statistics?

&gt; It makes you think how much stress and mind play a role.Stress and the mind can also end a pregnancy sometimes...

The stress factor may actually be an evolutionary trait.

I know two cases when people gave up trying to conceive, they got pregnant naturally.One was doing IVF, the other hormone therapy. Both needed a break and both got pregnant in this break.It makes you think how much stress and mind play a role.

Sometimes you need to let go your wishes fully go for them to become true.

If you read towards the end, a healthy baby was born.

It could be problematic in early pregnancy because the embryo relies on corpus luteum until placenta is developed (without corpus luteum the pregnancy would not continue). Afterwards it does not make a difference. I am not sure what happened in this case that the pregnancy was successful.

Amazing story, and I wish OP and his family all the best! I wonder what the effects of ovary removal will be on the embryonic development. I can imagine the ovaries produce hormones that affect the embryos development. Or is the embryo effectively hormonally isolated by the placenta?

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I have no words for how deeply this article affected me. In the words of the great philosopher Ian Malcolm &quot;Life will find a way.&quot;

I was so worried this would be another one of those sad articles that I just cannot help but read to the end.But then everything took a turn for the better :D

Reading the end of this story made me really happy. I&#x27;ve had a HN account since 2016 and have never commented, until now :)

Thanks. We are all as good as we can be now, Life, aside of finding ways, continues.

I&#x27;m so sorry. Thank you for sharing your story.

Somehow it has a similar content of this one published in &quot;Facts of the Faith&quot;, 1919:---
Death is nothing at all, I have only slipped away into the next room.
I am I, and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other, that we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used, put no difference in your tone, wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we shared together.
Let my name ever be the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of a shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner.
All is well.

Jesus, this is heartbreaking. I&#x27;m so sorry.I haven&#x27;t gone through anything quite like that, but after friends&#x27; deaths and suchlike, I always loved this passage from Slaughterhouse-Five:&gt; The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.&gt; When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is &quot;So it goes.&quot;

This is a heart breaking story. Stories like these really put life in a different perspective. This sort of reminds of me my brother&#x27;s wife story. She died of Glioblastoma at very young age (age 34).Thank you for sharing this.

A heart-breaking story, thank you for sharing.

Hearth-breaking. All the love to you and your family.

This is heart breaking of course, but is it wrong to say it&#x27;s also beautiful? That her last act before death was to create and nurture new life. There&#x27;s something amazing about that

Life finds a way. My wife had generalized tonic-clonic seizure for an entire year (non previous seizure history) without any cause being detected by multiple MRIs. She was taking increasing doses of Levetiracetam that somehow controlled the scope of the seizures but not avoid them completely. After a year of this, we go for another ER visit after the latest one and she ask, somehow randomly, to have a pregnancy test, it comes negative but, finally, the root cause of the seizure does appear on imagery, at that point a low grade astrocytoma. She went into major brain surgery to try to remove it and pathology confirms the low grade astrocytoma, and after a month of recovery, the oncologist recommends to start a chemo and radio therapy treatment.As the low grade astrocytoma is treatable and with high long term survival rate, he recommends that we might extracts some ovules if we decide to have another kid in the future, as the chemo had a high chance of infertility. We had one son, and being both on our middle to late 30s, we agreed.We go to her OG for this, and as he is performing an preliminary echography... a heart beat start blasting on the speakers, over two months of his negative blood pregnancy test, after major brain surgery, after major doses of meds of all kinds, she was, indeed, pregnant. We knew exactly when she got pregnant, it was 5 days before that ER visit. She &quot;knew&quot; it that day in the ER, that&#x27;s why she asked for the pregnancy test (that, once again, came negative).She decided to have the baby, no matter what the risk for her it was, no matter what risk for the baby it was. Chemo was out the question and radio treatment was a high risk and had to wait for at least another month. 6 months later we had a healthy baby, who is now a healthy 10 year old girl.Sadly, some months after given birth to her, my wife had a relapse, the brain tumor came back, this time as GBM, a month after the girl second birthday, she passed away.Life found a way, tho, and my wife never had any remorse of the decisions we made and she would be proud of what her sons are coming to be

Including this couple&#x27;s 15 years of infertility, 3 miscarriages, cancer diagnosis, and months of surgery-related constant pain. If I believed in a benevolent god I think I&#x27;d have to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume this wasn&#x27;t their plan. &quot;It feels like a prank&quot; is probably the nicest way you could put it.

And all the people with bad luck? What&#x27;s that, the devil?

Something to consider (or if you&#x27;re dead set against this idea, don&#x27;t): Sounds to me like God wacking you over the head with a 2X4 and saying &quot;Hey! Hello?! I&#x27;m here. (Yes, for both what you humans call &quot;good&quot; and &quot;bad&quot; &lt;smh&gt;) So be in touch, and stop calling Me &quot;Life&quot;!! &quot;

What a story... glad life found its way. I had a chance to meet you at IG, and that made the story more real than real, so to say. All the best Daniel!

This is really nice to read. My wife and I went through a similar thing. Her mom found BRCA recently so my wife got tested.Luckily she didn&#x27;t have the mutation, but it was a very scary time because we have a young daughter who might have also had it.

Congratulations with this great news in these complicated and confusing times!

It&#x27;s all still quite recent, but we&#x27;re currently in a similar boat. We don&#x27;t yet have a child though, only a miscarriage a few years ago. Around Christmas&#x2F;New Years, we had a bit of a chat about things and, accepting that the clock is definitely ticking, we were going to consider trying one round of fertility treatments. We want kids enough, but also are pragmatic enough to accept that things just might not work out for us on that front.February comes along and she gets COVID. I happened to be about an hour out of town when she first tested positive, and we decided I should stay out there unless I too happened to test positive. A week passes, she&#x27;s still testing positive on rapid tests, and most of her original symptoms are gone, but she&#x27;s feeling &quot;funky&quot; nonetheless. On a whim, has a long-expired pregnancy test in the back of a drawer, and tests positive. I was coming into town for a Costco run the next day and picked up some fresh tests for her. Fresh test immediately comes back very positive.At the Ultrasound they do measurements to evaluate how far along things are. 6 weeks! Later on that day I pulled out the calendar and start counting backwards... and smile because that was a really great weekend 6 weekends prior :DEdit: next big hurdle is next week where we go back for a second ultrasound and hopefully see&#x2F;hear a heartbeat. Everything else looked excellent at the first ultrasound, but it was just a bit too early according to the tech.

Not remotely as extreme as this, but we had a lot of trouble conceiving of our second child, after a very complicated birth for our first. We did want a second child, though, so we went through all sorts of fertility treatments, with no results except for one miscarriage. Eventually we were tired of it and gave up. After a few months we were ready to give it another go, and we&#x27;d start with new fertility treatments after her next period. That period never came, and we got another son instead (with a much easier pregnancy and birth than the first one).

I am in tears, also feeling happy for you!

What a beautiful story. A special little baby. I wish her and you both the happiest of families forever! :)

Wow, love to read stuff like this.My third kid also had given us a nice surprise. My wife was pregnant; we knew that. We had an appointment with the doctor for the first check-up. We came in and the doctor did not see a baby on the echo. We were not really badly shook up as we lost our first but we where not enjoying it either.
Next day I am at work and I get a phone call from my wife. The hospital rang. The blood that was examined before we wend for the check-up had bad values and indicated a possible tumour (but not the bad kind).
I raced home, we wend to the doctor. Before actually going into surgery he wanted to do an internal echo just to make sure where it was and how big it was.There she was. We where pregnant.

I love this story, even more so that my wife and I this very week are embarking on our 4th and final IVF cycle. Hopeful stories inspire.

Beautiful …. It was so refreshing to read an article with such happy ending.

I thought this would be another grim medical tale, I&#x27;m glad I was wrong :)

BRCA sucks. My sister died from ovarian cancer. She was positive and refused preventive removal.I need to get checked. And if I am a carrier, my daughters will need to get checked, too.

What an excellent coincidence. Congratulations!

I love how these new generations loooove to post every single details of their lives. It’s great, but I am looking for some CC numbers next time, maybe a turd pic

Congrats and good to know it all was fine at the last!In 2014 when we first decided to have our kids, we tried almost a year but nothing worked out. Then we ended up going through multiple tests, different gynac consultations, too much time&#x2F;money and emotional roller-coaster where finally doc said we can&#x27;t conceive naturally because my sperm count was some millions but still less :-) . One gynac said right upto my face that 99% you can&#x27;t have natural pregnancy ever!So I started medicines&#x2F;diet&#x2F;exercise and almost gave up a hope and started exploring IUI and IVF treatments. We did 4 IUIs, all went unsuccessful, so only hope remaining was IVF. As we were already too tired going through all this for almost 2 years. Even IVF is expensive and we don&#x27;t have public health care support I decided to take a break and took a project in another country to get some extra savings. After 6 months my wife resigned form her job and joined with me in a hope that we will save some money then go back and try our luck with IVF.and here Life had other plans fits in - Just after 2 months she started feeling uneasy , so we though it might be some weather or food allergy. After few days she confirmed she is pregnant! that is the most pleasant surprise life has given me ever! We went back and were blessed with beautiful girl.story continues, in 2020 we decided to take another chance, we were not optimistic as we thought we were very lucky in first place but it worked! super happy and one day my wife called me in office that she had a miscarriage, it was her 3rd month...she had to drive to her office daily.. so yes life had other plans.We gave up again as we were almost 36+ and then 2020 pandemic started, we said that&#x27;s it we won&#x27;t have another child ever. But soon when pandemic gave a relief , wfh started we thought let&#x27;s try as being at home we could avoid travelling and might help during pregnancy. So we took a chance and it worked again! but this time we had to go through constant fear of catching the virus throughout her 9 months, even post my baby boy arrived it was so tensed moments whenever we had to go out we had this fear that what if we get infected as we didn&#x27;t have vaccines available till then. Looking back we agree it was a big risk we took.finally we both are vaccinated, and my boy is about to complete a year!

This story seemed so heartbreaking, but the ending was totally worth it.

What a positive and uplifting story. Thank you for sharing, and BTW your writing is lucid, clever, and honest. Blessings to you all!

Life, while being fragile and vulnerable, can also be extremely resilient.My cousin and his girlfriend became pregnant a few years ago but the fetus were stuck outside the uterus, so the decision was made to have an abortion followed by a surgical cleansing (a scrape) to make sure nothing was left. The procedure was successful.After the failed pregnancy my cousin&#x27;s girlfriend started getting her period again but it was not as regular as it used to be. The doctors attributed it to the recent pregnancy&#x2F;abortion which could cause irregularities in her hormonal balance etc.So a while after all this happened, the girlfriend one night had what she believed to be gallstone pain in her stomach. She were familiar with gallstone attacks so that was the most logical explanation. Yet, she was sent to the hospital to have a checkup just to be safe.You might have guessed it. The nurse at the hospital quickly figured out the cause of pain... She was pregnant and very much in labor. Of course this was 9 months after the abortion so it seemed impossible to her.So apparently the abortion wasn&#x27;t successful after all, as they overlooked a second fetus inside the uterus and also missed it while scarping the uterus lining.So the girlfriend had to call up my cousin at work and tell him he was about to be a dad and that he had to come to hospital immediately. 4 hours later their daughter was born.

But life had other plans