OK. We can get this process started.
Exciting. Nerve-wracking. Frustrating. Scary.
It’s so confusing to have so many different feelings at once. How do you hold space for all those conflicting emotions?
Read more: IVFExcited we might be pregnant in a few months. Scared and nervous we might be pregnant in a few months. Frustrated that it boiled down to IVF, and we couldn’t do it on our own – that we’d have to spend every last penny we had saved to do this.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t also point out here that, while I’m incredibly excited to be a mom, I’m also terrified. There is so much that goes into raising a tiny little human. Not only do you have to teach them how to be a human. You really have to make sure you teach them how to be a good human. It’s daunting, to say the least.
Also, the logical side of my brain was still having a hard time rationalizing this. My internal monologue here looks something like this: “You’ve gotten pregnant before; you should’ve been able to get pregnant again.”
Obviously, that was not our reality, but, sometimes, I’m too logical for my own good.
Turns out, that’s a common IVF myth. Here are seven myths, debunked, people often think about IVF.
Frustrating and conflicting as all this was, I was excited we were finally taking the next step in starting our family.
IVF That 