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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 it didn’t automatically make things feel certain.

The plan was to proceed with transfer the following month, but I chose to wait a little longer. I wanted to give my body more time before moving forward.

So we delayed it.

When the transfer finally happened, we placed one embryo.

I didn’t test at home. We went back to the clinic for the result, and when the HCG came back at around three thousand, it felt like something had finally started.

But even then, it didn’t feel stable.

In the early weeks, there was repeated bleeding. It wasn’t constant, but it came often enough to make every day feel uncertain.

I went back for support injections more than once. Each time, it was just to keep things going, one step at a time.

At one point, I noticed that whenever I returned to work, the bleeding would start again.

I tried to continue for a while, but eventually, I had to make a decision.

I left my job.

Not because I knew it would change the outcome,
but because I didn’t want to keep questioning it every time something happened.

After the first few months, things started to settle.

The rest of the pregnancy moved forward more quietly.

And eventually, the baby was born.

Even now, it’s hard to say what made the difference.

We just know that this time, it continued.