Shimmy & Hadassa Manela share their journey of infertility, resilience, and inspiring others through Bonei Olam Florida.
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we went right through jumped right into the Journey of infertility right we from a like newly married like all excited and then into like getting into the whole Crux of infertility which is a crazy crazy journey and she CLS up she like hi is this so and so and I'm like yeah like I just want to announce that it was a successful transfer and you have a baby now right oh you know good luck and then they like we want to see you in a couple of days come in we want to start monitoring to start monitoring and yes I was like it was a crazy wave of emotion I guess a couple hours later she was on the couch and she's like sh I still haven't felt the baby move like she started drinking something grape juice and still haven't felt anything so then we called we called I think we called atella we called 911 and we just like we just rushed to the hospital to the ER and everything after that was literally like a blur started trying again and it just kept failing so we did like we did give up a lot we totally gave up there were points where we looked at each other I think after our third Iva procedure and that didn't work
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- 0:00we went right through jumped right into the Journey of infertility right we from a like…
- 6:10very nervous and he wasn't yeah just a little bit on two different wavelengths which is…
- 11:49at the time it was horrible for me yeah I didn't I didn't realize what I…
- 17:31not a nurse not so bad like they they like yeah this is expect you to…
- 23:37to you know her Clinic over there and our Clinic whatever and then she had a…
- 30:47pushed in my wheelchair out without a baby and then I got home I had ordered…
- 36:26publicized it I went public after because people were driving me crazy everybody would look at…
- 42:32already prepping for it like yeah a year Well year we signing the contract a year…
- 49:44organizations they're all amazing right and like I mean looking back to us like if we…
- 55:18like even for me like why like why are you having such a bad day something…
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