Blanca

Mother at 39

“Dr. Navarro believed in me, and even though I had lost all hope, he told me we had to make it happen, and so it was.”

I met Dr. Navarro during one of the worst periods of my life. I had been battling for 12 years with the infertility department at the Maternity Hospital in Malaga. They deceived me, making me believe they were going to treat me. They applied regulations that didn't exist, gave me absurd answers to avoid putting me on the fertility waiting list, and I felt cheated, humiliated, and hopeless. They laughed at me, and I wasted many years of my life living a lie. When I arrived at the infertility department, I had already suffered two miscarriages. I begged them to please give me some kind of treatment, saying I didn't want to miscarry anymore, but they only prescribed Clomid to increase ovulation and told me to keep trying since I was still too young for treatments. That's how I ended up with six miscarriages and an ectopic pregnancy (my left fallopian tube was severed), and I was around 40 years old. At that time they told me that undergoing treatment would be a waste of money on myself, because if I had miscarried naturally, I would lose even more money with treatment, and of course I was already too old to be a mother…

After numerous complaints, petitions, media appearances, and constant harassment of high-ranking officials, I finally managed to get two measly treatments, administered by the same people and at the same center I had denounced so many times. They didn't even offer me the option of going elsewhere, so I knew from the start it wouldn't work, which it didn't… and when they finally gave up on me, they told me to accept that I would never be a mother, and that they wouldn't provide any more treatments because it would be a waste of money.

But as they say, every cloud has a silver lining, and on that difficult journey, in a protest video I posted online, I met Dr. Navarro. He believed in me, and even though I had lost all hope, he told me we had to make it happen, and we did. I got pregnant on the first try with twins, and I have two incredibly precious children.

That's why I have nothing but gratitude for the entire team who were wonderful to me, for Dr. Gutiérrez, and especially for my dearest Dr. Navarro, who was an angel who crossed my path, and as long as I live I will be eternally grateful to him.

Thanks for everything.