MY IVF Journey

Tag: Overthinking

Repetitive thoughts and mental loops during waiting or uncertainty.

  • 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 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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  • The Quiet Days After Retrieval

    I remember I didn’t really say much during those days. I remember those few days after the retrieval very clearly. Not because anything big happened…but because nothing was happening yet. Just waiting. They told me how many eggs were taken.Then after that, it became very quiet.No more action I could do. No more things to

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