“After the birth, discharge was the happiest day of our life”

Confessional: mother of twins, Wanessa tells how it was to get pregnant and cope with serious cases of Covid-19 in the family in early pregnancy.

At 36, Vanessa Scabora she was going through an important moment in her career and decided to freeze her eggs to postpone the plan to become a mother. During the trial, however, I learned that I might have trouble getting pregnant. She and her husband ended up choosing to continue the treatment and continue with IVF, but the first embryo transfer didn’t work. In the new attempt, Wanessa discovered in one of the egg collections that she had Covid-19 and then, during the pregnancy of twins, she faced serious cases in the family. Discover this story!

“I’ve always wanted to have children. Even though I didn’t know exactly when it would be, it was something that accompanied me. It was never ‘the big dream’ of my life, but I wanted to be a mother. That was in my plans. for a while, so much so that it ended up happening later on.

I was gradually discovering the difficulty of getting pregnant. When I started the treatment, it was in the sense of freezing the eggs, because I was almost 37 at the time and my gynecologist recommended it to me. He said that if one day I wanted to become a mother, I would have to carefully consider what to do at that moment. And that’s why I started the treatment. I had just gone through an internal process at the company I work for, I was at an important moment in my career and I pushed the motherhood decision a little further.

in vitro fertilization

In the meantime, I learned that I have thyroid dysfunction. I have done a series of tests and have found that it may be difficult to get pregnant naturally. At that moment we started the superovulation process to collect the eggs and, subsequently, we decided to continue with the treatment through in vitro fertilization.

I had three egg collections and, when I was about to make the fourth, I found out I had Covid. I was completely asymptomatic and only knew it because it was part of the test procedure. So, in total, I took four drugs, but only three collections.

The first embryo transfer did not go ahead. We saw fit to take some time to get through this short bereavement and then, at the beginning of 2021, we decided to make a new move. This time, we inserted two embryos.

The shock of Covid-19 in the family

Knowing it had worked was one of the most rewarding surprises of our life. It was time, therefore, to hope that everything worked and went well, but we did not tell anyone about the treatment or the pregnancy. Only, soon after, we had serious Covid problems in the family. I had two uncles who were hospitalized, my father got sick and my mother spent ten days in the hospital.

It was a very difficult time. I wanted to tell everyone that I was pregnant, I was very emotionally shaken. When my mom was discharged on Easter Sunday, we made plans and the following weekend gathered some family members for pizza so we could announce the pregnancy. They were twins, a girl and a boy.

I moved on February 1st 2021 and were born on September 12th. Due to the pandemic, very few people saw me pregnant, I avoided contact as much as possible, I had the vaccine – at the time the CoronaVac – and thank God everything was resolved.

That whole situation with my parents and uncles with Covid, and me in early pregnancy, ended up leaving me emotionally vulnerable. But after the scare, my pregnancy was very peaceful, I had nothing but heartburn. The babies, João Pedro and Theodora, arrived at 34 weeks and three days, when my son’s waters broke and I quickly went to the hospital. After giving birth, 16 days in the NICU and this was another very difficult phase, but they needed that little time. It may seem little, but for those who live it is an eternity.

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Double dose love

Everything worked out and they went home with us. I say that after the birth, the date of discharge is undoubtedly the best day of our life, when you come home with your children in your arms! They are beautiful, strong and bad. They are ten months old and have teeth, they begin to crawl, to make the first sounds… I went back to work two months ago and it is difficult to reconcile the return, but everything went well.

Of all that I’ve been through, the biggest challenge, without a doubt, is being 100% whole for them, even after a hard day or a sleepless night – because when one sleeps, the other wakes up and so on – but also being able to follow the development, growth, every new skill that conquers is for us the most satisfying and happy part. I just have to thank God for all this and all the professionals who supported me during the treatment phase – Dr. Alfonso Massaguer, of the Mãe clinic, specialist in Human Reproduction – and also during pregnancy and childbirth.

What I would like to say to other women is: who has this dream, follow, look for the means … Sometimes the path can be a little more difficult, but in the end it is very pleasant. Here everything is double, so much joy, emotion, love … It’s all in double dose “.

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