Dr. Mona Amin is sharing her story to help others who've experienced it too.
“It’s a very personal photo of my stomach with all the scars that I had after my surgery,” the Florida pediatrician toldThe photo shows the C-section scar from Amin's traumatic birth, as well as scars from subsequent procedures related to the secondary infertility that resulted from it.When Amin delivered her son Ryaan in December 2019, there was a plan in place to induce her, but her water broke before that.
“It was very traumatizing because you’re literally laying on the C-section table. You can’t see what’s going on. All you hear is commotion,” Amin explained. “ needed to have another physician push my son’s head up from below so that she could pull from above from the opening.”neonatal intensive care unit“I’m just very grateful I never saw him like that because I think it would have made my healing much harder,” she said. “I didn’t even get to see him until he was about 12 hours old.
Dr. Mona Amin said the procedures for secondary infertility can feel traumatizing for her. She's found that journaling her thoughts and talking to trusted friends can help.As it turns out, fluid abscesses had developed in her abdomen and she needed to undergo surgery again. Her fertility doctor scheduled ultrasounds to see if she would ovulate on the right so that she could become pregnant. But for five months she only ovulated on the left.
There’s so many emotions that come with spending to try to have another baby when there’s no guarantee that any of this is going to work at all.”She said the surgery to have her fallopian tube removed reawakened some of the feelings she experienced during her delivery. But she trusted her doctor who listened to her and understood her fears.
Through sharing her story, she’s learned a lot of people struggling with infertility also wonder if the time and money make sense.
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