MY IVF Journey

Category: Embryo

The days of embryo development, waiting, and uncertainty around growth and quality.

  • We Needed to Know Before Moving Forward

    Journey 04 — We Knew It Could Happen Again Once we decided to go through IVF, the conversation didn’t stop there. Because of our condition, testing the embryos wasn’t something optional for us. PGTM was part of the plan from the beginning. PGTA was also discussed, but PGTM was the one that mattered most in

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  • We Didn’t Do Everything at Once

    Journey 03 — We Almost Chose a Different Path We went into the fourth cycle knowing it might be the last. We didn’t say it directly.But after three attempts, you start to feel where the limit might be. We had to change approach. We couldn’t go back to our previous center, so we looked elsewhere.Brought

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  • When Two Embryos Felt Like Too Much to Risk

    I went through four cycles. First one, nothing.Second, one egg.Third, nothing again.Fourth… one. At some point, it stopped feeling random.It just felt like this was how my body worked. By the end of it, there were only two embryos. That number stayed with me. Two. There was a conversation about testing.PGT-A. I knew why people

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  • He Didn’t Give Up on Us

    Journey 01 – When One Cycle Isn’t the End After that result, I think that was the lowest point for me. Not because of how dramatic it was…but because everything just became very quiet. We didn’t have anything left from that cycle. I didn’t know what to say,and I didn’t really ask many questions. It

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  • It Came Down to One, and Then None

    Journey 01 – When One Cycle Isn’t the End I still remember that first retrieval. They told me they managed to get 10 eggs.At that point, I felt… okay.Not overly hopeful, but at least there was something to work with. Then the updates came. In the end, only one embryo was successfully developed. I held

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  • That One Embryo

    We didn’t really remember all the numbers. Maybe 10 to 15 eggs. Something like that. At that time, numbers didn’t feel that important. Everything just moved step by step. What I remember was this. Things started to narrow down. Maybe 6. Maybe 7. Maybe 8 embryos in total. I just remember what the doctor said.

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