MY IVF Journey

Tag: IVF

General IVF journey context and shared experiences.

  • 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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  • The Timing Was Different

    Journey 02 – When Nothing Explained It — Until Timing Did By the time we reached the last embryo,I think I already knew this would be the final attempt. Not because I didn’t want to continue,but because I was tired. We had tried multiple times.We had checked almost everything. And still, there was no clear

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  • We Checked Everything We Could

    Journey 02 – When Nothing Explained It — Until Timing Did After a few failed transfers,we started to look for answers. At first, it felt like there must be something we missed.Something small, something hidden. So we began checking. One test led to another. We checked the tubes.Went through hormone and immune-related tests.Looked into the

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  • We Just Kept Trying Again

    Journey 02 – When Nothing Explained It — Until Timing Did After that first time, we didn’t stop. We tried again. And then again. The second, third, fourth cycle…they started to blur together after a while. Each time, I told myselfmaybe this round would be different. But the pattern felt familiar. We went through retrieval

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  • There Was Nothing to Retrieve

    Journey 02 – When Nothing Explained It — Until Timing Did I remember the first time we went through retrieval. I didn’t know what to expect.I just followed the process, step by step. When the result came back,they told me there were no eggs. Zero. For a moment, I thought I heard it wrongly.Or maybe

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  • Looking Back, We Weren’t Alone

    Journey 01 – When One Cycle Isn’t the End Looking back now,it’s hard to believe everything happened within a few months. At that time, it didn’t feel fast. Each step felt long.Each wait felt heavy. But somehow, from the first cycle to the second,everything unfolded within that period. I think what stayed with me the

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