CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — When Destiny Lametrie and her husband got married in 2019, they tried for about a year to get pregnant. Seeing no success in that year, her OB-GYN referred her to a reproductive endocrinologist to try and figure out exactly what the issue was.
"Unfortunatly, there's no diagnoses for me, so I had unexplained infertility, which is very frustrating," Lametrie said. "Usually if there's a diagnosis, we kind of know what to tackle. We just have a lot of unanswered questions."
In January of 2022, Lametrie turned to an IUI, or intrauterine insemination procedure to boost her chances at getting pregnant. The frist attempt failed, so did the second attempt in February and the third one in March.
Lametrie grew more discouraged with each attempt.
"Every time I would do an IUI, I was like 'okay, I am pregnant,' and then I would in my head start imagining my baby shower," she said. "Then two weeks later they would be like 'okay, it didn't work.'"
OB-GYN Dr. Jaishree Ellis said multiple attempts to get pregnant can have more than just a physical toll on a woman's body.
"We have to always remember the emotional toll," Ellis said. "That is probably the heftiest thing because it becomes a very stressful thing for a woman. There's that expectation from society, there's familiy members asking you 'you guys have been married this long, when are you going to start having children?'"
At what felt like her last resort at starting a family, Lametrie and her husband turned to IVF, or in vitro fertilization. She had her first embryo transfer in August of 2022, but had a miscarriage by September. Her second attempt in January of 2023 led to her second miscarriage.
"I was just so scared at that point," Lametrie said. "This is the third try. I was trying to be hopeful, but once you're there, you're kind of numb."
That third attempt worked and Lametrie is now 30 weeks pregnant and expecting her baby girl in May. She still has two viable embryos left that she says she plans to use and grow her family further.
"That would be our next journey," Lametrie said. "After we have this baby we're still going to be in the [infertility] community because we still have our embryos frozen. That's probably going to be the journey that we're going to be on after this."
"When you have a patient who's pregnant or patient who's trying to get pregnant, you develop a relationship with her, you bond with her," Ellis said. "She's more than just somebody that you're serving but you actually want to see her happy and you want to see her family happy."
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