Mike & Michelle’s IVF Journey

<div style="border-width: 0px;color: #252525;font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi!</div> <div style="border-width: 0px;color: #252525;font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"></div> <div style="border-width: 0px;color: #252525;font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">

We’re the Crossley family! Mike and Michelle, and we can’t forget about our chihuahuas, Dozer and Lola. We have been together for 12 years and married for 5 years.

</div> <div style="border-width: 0px;color: #252525;font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"></div> <div style="border-width: 0px;color: #252525;font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Our journey has been a long one, starting back in 2013 when I was pregnant with our first child. We were over the moon excited. Unfortunately, we lost the baby due to an ectopic pregnancy. Michelle lost her right tube during surgery.</div> <div style="border-width: 0px;color: #252525;font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"></div> <div style="border-width: 0px;color: #252525;font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">In 2023, we decided to go see a fertility specialist.</div> <div style="border-width: 0px;color: #252525;font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"></div> <div style="border-width: 0px;color: #252525;font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">After ten long years of infertility, I received my diagnosis: a unicorn uterus. (Yes, I’m half unicorn.) Okay, that’s not really what it means, but it helps me. It means I have a unicornuate uterus. A unicornuate uterus is a rare uterine abnormality, affecting about 0.1-0.4% of the population. This means that about one in 4,020 women have a unicornuate uterus. So, I lost my right tube due to an ectopic pregnancy, and my left side of my uterus doesn’t work.</div> <div style="border-width: 0px;color: #252525;font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"></div> <div style="border-width: 0px;color: #252525;font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">My husband and I both want to start a family so bad, but with the cost of IVF being so expensive, this has caused a financial strain on my family. <strong style="border-width: 0px">If you can donate, we would greatly appreciate it, even just $5 towards starting our family, we’d be forever grateful!</strong></div> <div style="border-width: 0px;color: #252525;font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"></div> <div style="border-width: 0px;color: #252525;font-family: CircularXXWeb, Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Thank you so much for taking the time to read our story and thank you so much for donating. We greatly appreciate everything!</div>