MY IVF Journey

Tag: Decision

Key decisions made throughout the IVF journey.

  • It Didn’t Feel Stable, But It Continued

    Journey 07 — What We Thought, and What We Found Once we started, everything moved step by step. The retrieval gave us more numbers than we expected. There were more than twenty eggs, and some continued to develop into D5 embryos. After PGS, a few remained. On paper, it looked like we had options. But

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  • We Thought It Was Me

    Journey 07 — What We Thought, and What We Found At the beginning, we thought we already knew what the problem was. Before starting anything, I had been told that I might have hydrosalpinx. It stayed in our minds as the reason things weren’t working. So when we went for another check, we expected to

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  • The Ones We Weren’t Sure About

    Journey 06 — We Thought It Was Starting Again The next time, it didn’t feel the same going in. We had embryos left, but not the ones we felt most confident about. They were day 6 embryos. We didn’t know what that would mean. We weren’t even sure if this was the best option. We

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  • We Didn’t Want to Risk It Again

    Journey 04 — We Knew It Could Happen Again We didn’t start IVF because we were trying for a long time. We started because of something that already happened. Both of us are carriers of thalassemia. We didn’t fully understand what that could mean at the beginning. We conceived naturally once, and for a while,

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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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  • We Almost Chose a Different Path

    Journey 03 — We Almost Chose a Different Path I wasn’t sure if I should even share this. We’re not exactly the kind of couple people feel confident about when it comes to IVF.We’re both older. And after a while, you start to feel it—even without people saying it directly. By the time we reached

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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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  • We Just Kept Trying First

    I think at the beginning, I really thought we could manage it on our own. After about a year of trying,I started to feel like something wasn’t quite right. But even then,we didn’t go to see a doctor immediately. I tried to adjust my body first.Took supplements… tried different ways to improve things. It felt

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  • It Just Felt Like the Next Step

    I think for me, it didn’t feel as big as people describe it. When we first found out about IVF,it was already a few years into trying. So when the option came,I didn’t feel scared. It felt more like…okay, this is the next step. We didn’t take a long time to decide.Since we were overseas

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