Tag: Uncertainty
Moments of not knowing outcomes or what comes next.
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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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When One Became Two, Then None
Journey 06 — We Thought It Was Starting Again When IVF worked the first time, it felt different from before. It wasn’t just a test result. It was confirmed, monitored, followed step by step. At the first scan, we saw something we didn’t expect. There were two heartbeats. It started from one embryo, but it
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It Happened Like This More Than Once
Journey 06 — We Thought It Was Starting Again Before IVF, it didn’t feel like nothing was happening. It was just that nothing stayed. There were a few times where the test showed two lines. Each time, it started the same way. A small moment where things felt like they were finally moving forward. And
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Not Everything Stayed
Journey 05 — We Thought We Were Already There When we went back for the next transfer, nothing felt guaranteed. We had embryos frozen from before. This time, three were transferred. Two implanted. For a while, it felt like things were finally moving forward again. But not everything stayed. Around 14 weeks, one of the
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Something We Didn’t Know Was There
Journey 05 — We Thought We Were Already There After that loss, time moved, but not in a way that felt clear. A few months later, I got pregnant naturally. For a moment, it felt unexpected. Like maybe things could happen without planning every step again. But it didn’t last. Around 10 weeks, it ended
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We Thought We Were Past the Hard Part
Journey 05 — We Thought We Were Already There By the time it worked, we thought we had already gone through the hardest part. It didn’t happen quickly for us. There were years of trying, doctor visits, and cycles that didn’t go anywhere. So when IVF finally worked, it felt like something had shifted. The
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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