Oral Description|Sister Su
Editor|Ru Manyi
IVF, in recent years, has been a very acceptable thing.
You may not know that about 10 couples, one in 10 may need reproductive assistance technology, reproductive assistance technology, including in vitro fertilization, in vivo fertilization - embryo transfer.
Hello everyone, my name is Sister Su, 40 years old.
Next to the reproductive health hospital in the capital city of the southwestern province, I opened a convenient apartment for IVF, fetal protection, and expectant delivery.
In this apartment, I have seen the pain of doing reproductive assistance, and I have seen the luck of couples who are desperate.
I have been doing this business for 5 years, and I have seen many couples of all kinds, the only thing that remains unchanged is that my room is only rented for a minimum of 80 yuan a day, and this price has been maintained for 5 years.
Why hasn't the price increased for 5 years?
Because I know that these couples have spent too much money to fulfill their dreams, and they may also give up their work and have no source of income for the time being, and they also need to feel a touch of warmth when they come to this city.
In the second half of 2017, my husband and I came to the famous reproductive hospital in the province and rented 13 apartments in the apartment on the side, 3 of which were one bedroom and one living room, and 10 of which were three bedrooms and one living room.
I signed a five-year contract with my landlord, and at that time, the rent for 13 houses was 20,000 a month, and it cost another 100,000 yuan to buy 13 apartments.
My husband and I plan to make a short-term apartment for couples doing IVF at the reproductive hospital.
The price of our three-bedroom living room, 100 yuan for the master room with toilet, 80 yuan for the other two public bathrooms, 130 yuan a day for one bedroom and one living room.
Many couples who come to do test tubes can not be completed in 10 days and half a month, so each couple combines their own situation, and the plan given by the doctor will be different.
The time they need to wait for planting is also different, and the problem of renting and eating has become a factor they have to consider on this road.
There are all kinds of kitchenware in the kitchen, as well as a certain amount of peanut oil, soy sauce, salt, etc., and vegetables and rice need to be bought by residents.
However, behind the apartment, there is a small vegetable market with fresh ingredients and residents often go there to buy vegetable soup.
Generally, a three-bedroom apartment, three couples living together, often take turns cooking, or each person makes a dish, everyone has the same purpose - IVF embryo transfer.
They sat together without scruples, opened their hearts to each other, discussed their respective situations, learned from each other, helped each other, and all had a bright vision for the future.
If some residents whose first transplant was unsuccessful, others will comfort her and continue to work hard.
Therefore, the hygiene of some rooms, I also hired an aunt to do it for me, do not need the residents to worry about it, don't let them work too hard, free up more time to cultivate.
At first, my husband and I just wanted to develop in the city, choosing to do short-term rental industry to facilitate those who came to this reproductive hospital from other places to do test tubes.
We printed a lot of business cards, went to the waiting room of this reproductive hospital almost every day to send business cards, and sometimes the doorman recognized us and said to us, it's okay to come once in a while, come often, it's hard for him to do it.
My husband and I also feel embarrassed about this.
This hospital is one of the best specialized hospitals in our province for reproductive assistance technology, established in the 90s, formerly a family planning research institute, with a history of almost 30 years, and has given birth to more than 40,000 IVF babies.
We didn't expect that the occupancy rate reached 70%, and many couples stayed here for a week or a month each time, and even many repeat customers came from other counties and cities in the province.
Our apartments are also becoming more and more famous in this circle.
Because the service is very considerate, it also provides some good popularization knowledge, such as some books, for everyone to read for free, and many old customers also introduce us to new users.
Usually when we live here, I will pull them into a group so that they can communicate with each other, solve each other's doubts, encourage each other, and cheer each other on.
Now many former residents have also become moms and dads, and they are very harmonious in private, exchanging parenting experiences, choosing milk powder and diapers, or some things encountered during confinement, and have become good friends.
What impressed me was a couple from a small county, the boy was called Xiao Lin and the girl was called Xiao Yao.
They lived in my apartment for two months and talked to me better, and I also saw a lot of microcosms of couples who do reproductive assistance here.
They have been married for 3 years and have no children of their own, and when Xiao Yao was 25 years old, she had signs of biochemical pregnancy, did not go to the hospital for conditioning, and then did not get pregnant again.
Every time Xiao Yao postponed her period, she expected to be able to measure the double bars, but unfortunately she just had double bars in her eyes.
Xiao Lin's mother is very much looking forward to holding her grandson, her son and daughter-in-law have been married for 3 years, and her daughter-in-law's belly is not bulging down day by day, Xiao Yao thinks it is her own problem, so she sometimes has low self-esteem.
Mother Lin made a decision, she knew that the couple was not very financially rich, and decided to take out her savings from selling sugar cane for many years, a total of more than 100,000 yuan, and handed it to the couple to let them go to the big hospital in the city to learn about IVF.
Lin Mu and Lin Dad didn't tell anyone about this matter, after all, they lived in the countryside, people were terrible, at that time there were still many people who could not understand this kind of thing, not as widely accepted as it is now.
Xiao Lin's salary in the county seat is 3,000, Xiao Yao's salary is 2,500, both working for private bosses, and when the two decide to embark on the road of IVF, it means that they need to resign and go to the big city.
If there is a sacrifice, there is a gain.
Xiao Lin and Xiao Yao also did not plan to tell their friends around them, and the friends who got married around them basically had their own children.
After the entire time process of doing reproductive assistance, it may last for half a year or a year, Xiao Lin and Xiao Yao are actually under great psychological pressure, afraid of failing their mother's wishes, which is the money that her mother has saved by selling sugar cane for several years.
They learned online that the cost of the whole process is not low, even if the initial husband and wife check, the cost can reach thousands to tens of thousands of yuan.
The first time Xiao Lin and Xiao Yao came to this hospital, they knew that so many people had come here for help.
This is a public hospital, it took two days to queue for examination, and when the hospital director consulted, they learned that there was a problem on both sides.
Husband Xiao Lin's sperm motility is obviously low, not yet reaching the passing line, and there are some prostatitis.
His wife Xiao Yao has a little inflammation, and the fallopian tubes are not very smooth.
So the situation of Xiaolin and Xiao Yao is actually not suitable for ordinary artificial insemination, the success rate of the first generation is not high, the director's suggestion is the second generation, combined with their age, there may be a 60% success rate for the first time.
The cost will be about 60,000.
If the second generation is also not successful, there is a third generation, but the cost will be higher.
Although they felt sorry for the money, they still chose to sign the letter when they thought of their mother's wish.
Xiao Lin and Xiao Yao came to my apartment next, in order to save money, rented a room in the master room, 100 yuan a day, and lived for a month.
Xiao Lin's sperm retrieval process is very smooth, Xiao Yao has to give ovulation induction injection before egg retrieval, Xiao Yao has been afraid of pain and injection since she was a child, so they walk to the hospital every day, let the nurse sister help with the injection, and it takes an hour to come and go.
She showed me her belly, blue and purple. I am also very distressed, but this is an inevitable process.
In the later egg retrieval operation, Xiao Yao cried, because she had to be anesthetized, and it hurt very much when she woke up, and Xiao Lin was constantly comforting on the side.
I have to say that Xiao Lin is indeed a good husband, who can insist on accompanying Xiao Yao to the hospital for injections every day, and constantly encourage her to persevere.
After pairing culture, Xiao Yao only has three blastocysts that are good, which also disappoints Xiao Yao, and a sister with her has 9 excellent blastocysts.
On the day of the transplant, Xiao Yao knew that she could only transplant one blastocyst this time, which was the director's arrangement and the most optimal method.
During that time, Xiao Lin and Xiao Yao were very nervous, and since the third day, they have tested HCG every day, hoping to see two bars appear on the early pregnancy test strip.
But then there were indeed two bars, one deep and one shallow, and they were very happy, but they did not deepen for several days, and then slowly faded.
The doctor said that biochemistry, fetal preservation will not help, to abide by the natural law of survival of the fittest, did not succeed in implantation, look forward to the next time, relax.
Back in the county, Xiao Lin and Xiao Yao rested for half a year this time to condition their bodies.
I went back to my apartment again, this time, with hope in their eyes, and I hope that they can succeed in the second blastocyst transfer.
In the second embryo transfer, the director personally went into battle and released only the last two blastocysts, that is, this time it may be twins or singletons, because one of them may be absorbed by the other.
Of course, it may not be successful this time.
If this time is not successful, then you need to retrieve the eggs again and go through the process again, except for the physical examination.
The most important thing is the mentality, the mentality should be corrected, Xiao Yao said to me: "This time, I will take the baby rat home safely." ”
After I listened, I was also praying that she would succeed this time.
Xiao Yao actually has her own plans, if this time is not successful, consider adopting a child and fulfilling her dream of motherhood.
This time, Xiao Yao was undoubtedly the lucky one who was in a desperate situation, and on the tenth day, he tested clearly visible parallel bars, went to the hospital to test that the HCG doubled well, and the progesterone value was also normal.
She told me the good news and the sisters in the group, and everyone was happy for her and took this "good pregnancy".
Although he spent a lot of money, he used today's medical technology to realize his mother's dream.
Now Xiao Yao's daughter is 3 years old and has reached the age of kindergarten.
My daughter's nickname "Little Maruko" is very cute, and when they went to the provincial capital to play, they also came to the apartment to see me, took some hometown specialties, and thanked me for taking care of them during that time.
After opening a short-term apartment for 5 years, I have also met 40-year-old couples who have worked hard for 3 years, and finally succeeded.
Maybe when they were young, they didn't have the financial means to do it, but now they are a happy family of three.
There was also a couple who were both carriers of thalassemia, and the hospital director told them that the healthy rate was only 3/4, but they were brave enough to try.
In the past 5 years, I have met too many couples.
Most of them also ended up satisfying and leaving. Although there are also a small number of couples who have failed many times and experienced short-term pain, they have finally ushered in luck.
I also give a thumbs up to those sisters who have the courage to firmly choose to follow this path!
Many residents ask me what I suggest?
I always tell them that relaxing as an experience in life will always be rewarding.
Although we have not made much money in the past five years, my husband and I still plan to buy a car that can pick up and drop off their residents who are unable to walk for free.
At the end of the 5-year lease, the rent given to us by the landlord will increase, but I will continue to rent, and I will not increase the previous price.
Although the expenses will be larger, it can help many couples who come here to seek a good pregnancy, and I think I am doing something very meaningful.