Casey and Brian Haggard
USA
Our NAIT Story
May 12, 1998 I gave birth to a beautiful healthy baby boy Gabriel. Loving the fact of being a mom I wanted more even though my husband and I were young. June 20, 2001 came Carter, then September 3, 2004 Faith and December 12, 2005 Alexandra. Feeling pressure from family not to have anymore children I got my tubes tied. What a horrific day that was. I was depressed for months at the fact that I couldn’t have anymore children. My depression and the PTLS (Post Tubal Ligation Syndrome) ultimately led to my husband and I almost going through a divorce. I was not able to cope with life and having many female troubles from the PTLS. We were split up for a couple months but by God’s sovereign grace He put our marriage back together. After that, we decided we did want more children and needed to change a few things in our life and so on March 11, 2008 I got a tubal reversal at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Dr. Berger was only able to reverse one tube, the left side, because of scar tissue but assured us we could conceive again.
In October of 2008 I took that pretty little test and 2 pink lines came up. We were very excited to be having another child. After having a normal pregnancy I went in to the doctor at 35 weeks, normal check up, in excruciating pain. I could barely walk. The doctor after checking me out said, “Well you DO have uterinedydelphus (2 uterus’s and 2 cervices). I am going to go with the left uterus is pushing on the right uterus and causing pain. Let’s put you on bed rest.”
After going through NAIT my husband and I didn’t know what to do. We were convicted of having as many children as the Lord would give us and we would not stop a birth with any form of birth control. I prayed about our situation and at one point after Zachariah was born found out I had Hyperplasia of the uterus’s without Atypia. The on start of uterine cancer. I pleaded to the Lord and found out that in high doses birth control can kill the growth. Feeling very convicted that I didn’t want to do birth control I was devastated. But the Lord is gracious and I felt at peace doing the birth control because it wasn’t stopping a birth it was going to help me to create a new life. After the hyperplasia was fixed I found out that I was pregnant in March of 2010 just 10 months after Zachariah’s birth. What a thrill that was but I ended up loosing the baby. They couldn’t rule out NAIT but said it was probably due to something else. Then in May of 2010 I fell pregnant again and was scared to death. I lost that baby as well.
In July of 2010 after moving to Louisville, Kentucky I was having some familiar symptoms. I found out I was pregnant and was scared. I found a perinatologist in Louisville who put me on a baby aspirin and progesterone. Everything was going great. I still didn’t know a lot about NAIT and apparently neither did my doctor. I was 32 weeks when at my weekly check up my doctor informed me of IVIG. Thinking this was great I wanted to do it but he said it wouldn’t work. I was a little dumb founded! That’s when I came home and found the NAIT support group on Facebook. They were such a tremendous help. I started getting information that I just couldn’t find online. I pushed my doctor to do prednisone. He wanted to do PUBS but I was against that and scared.
Today, I am currently 21 weeks pregnant with a baby boy, Jackson. I now live in the St. Louis area. I start my first treated pregnancy in about a week. With this pregnancy we wanted to do more extensive genetic testing which showed that I have a very rare form of NAIT. They cannot identify the antibody that has been attacking my lil ones. I am suppose to be in the 50/50 category but without knowing what kind it is I will forever have to do IVIG until they can find the antibody.
Casey
Psalm 127:5 Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.