Our Infertility / IVF Journey – Part 1
It’s taken me a long time to start this post series. Partially because I was so sick with morning sickness, then had to recover from surgery while pregnant (read about that whole saga HERE), but also because this is a hard and convoluted story and those kinds of stories take time to tell. I want to do this part of our lives justice because I have a hope that our story will help others in similar situations, even if it all it does is let one single person know they are not alone.
Infertility is no joke – it’s a bitch, actually, and I would never wish it on anyone. Did you know that 1 in 8 couples has trouble conceiving" That’s surprisingly high, no" 1/3rd of these cases is caused by infertility issues on the female side, 1/3 by infertility on the male side, and 1/3 by either both partners or unexplained causes. Millions of people around the world see infertility specialists and/or have fertility treatments performed. That’s a lot of people struggling with infertility. And yet, no one ever seems to talk about it. It’s almost an invisible illness; it makes people uncomfortable – for some reason everyone is just supposed to be able to procreate at the drop of a hat, and if you can’t, then you are seen as inadequate or broken, and people don’t like bringing that up.
Our journey to parenthood started in November of 2015. I remember driving up to my parent’s mountain cabin for Thanksgiving w...
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