Meet our Sweet Pea Advocate
Meghann Bedell

My ex-husband and I started trying to have a baby in 2014. Late that year, I was diagnosed with unexplained infertility and a uterine anomaly (complete uterine septum). I had it retracted in November 2015 and the doctor said they got 85%. In 2016 we did 3 IUI's and none were successful. So, we moved to IVF in the summer of 2016. At that time, they were still doing fresh transfers. We ended up with 5 embryos and we transferred the top graded one in August 2016. I got pregnant and then had a miscarriage in September 2016. The doctor said it was because the embryo was implanted in the remaining septum and couldn't grow. So, I had the same septum retraction surgery (almost to the day) in November 2016. He said they got the rest of it. 

We did a frozen transfer in January 2017. It didn't take. 

In April 2017 we did a transfer with 2 frozen embryos. Both took and I was pregnant with twins due in December 2017. 

I had to see the high risk (MFM) because they were twins. In July 2017, I was diagnosed with a short cervix and placed on bedrest. 

At 22 weeks 6 days, I had an emergency cerclage placed. 

September 2017 - Same week as the miscarriage the year before, Hurricane Irma came through Florida (we were in Tampa at the time) and my cerclage ruptured. I was in the ambulance to the hospital when they close all the roads. They took me to the closest hospital which didn't have a NICU. I was on magnesium and everything else they could think of, to keep the babies in. The next day I was transferred to St. Joes in Tampa. I stayed on hospital bed rest until I was 24 weeks and 5 days. Something ruptured and I woke up in a pool of my own blood. Later that morning they delivered my son, Daxton and my daughter, Ellie James. 

Ellie James passed away from sepsis at 5 days old. 

Dax was in the NICU for 113 days. He came home with a g-tube that he had for about a month. 

Ever since then I've been trying to give back as much as I can and have been trying to get back into the NICU as a nurse.