Dominique Nugent has opened up about her IVF journey as she and her husband, Paddy try to welcome their first child.
She admitted that they “never expected” to go down this route to conceive.
However, that they are remaining positive on this fertility journey.
She shared a video of Paddy helping her inject hormones to begin the process.
“In the IVF season of our lives right now. It’s a road we never expected to walk, but one we’re stepping into with hope and love,” she wrote.
“The past couple of years have been difficult filled with loss, longing, and quiet heartbreak. Losing our baby girl Wynter, at 15 and a half weeks changed everything. Since then, becoming parents has been a journey marked by both pain and deep hope.
“Sharing this doesn’t come easy, but I believe in talking about the difficult topics rather than keeping them to myself. I never spoke about my first pregnancy online until it ended in loss. So this time, I’m choosing openness from the start.”
She went on to say: “IVF can feel isolating, but it shouldn’t be. It’s just another path to parenthood, a path many of us are quietly walking. And I want to help normalise that. I’m not sure how much I’ll share, but for now, I’ll share this: we’ve started. We’re doing the injections, the scans, the blood tests and hoping this will bring us closer to holding our baby.
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“I know there are no guarantees. But we’re ready, and we’re hopeful.
“If you’ve been through IVF and feel comfortable sharing your story or positive outcome in the comments, please do. I know others, like me, will find comfort in your words. It’s the stories of others that have helped me feel less alone in recent months, and I hope that by opening up a little here, my page might do the same for someone else.
“Sending love to anyone who needs it right now.”
She then shared a video of their first egg retrieval, explaining that they extracted 16 eggs.
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“We’ll find out tomorrow how many have fertilised, and then it’s another 5–6 days to see how many make it to the blastocyst stage,” she wrote.
“We’re doing PGT testing on our embryos, so we have a little break now for the next few months, taking a holiday with my family and really looking forward to some R&R.
“So relieved to have this part behind us. Sending love to anyone going through it right now.”
