A Thoughtful Guide on your Journey to Motherhood
There is something nobody prepares you for when you start your IVF journey. Not the injections, not the waiting rooms, not even the results. It is the silence. The strange, heavy silence of carrying something enormous and not knowing who you can tell. You smile at family dinners. You say you are fine. You listen...
Most women do not begin trying for a baby imagining fertility clinics. We imagine something private and simple. We stop contraception. We wait. Maybe we buy a pregnancy test. And somewhere in our imagination, there are two lines. When that does not happen and medical language begins entering the story – ovulation induction, IUI, IVF – it can...
There are questions that sound harmless until you are the woman who has been trying to conceive for a long time. “When are you giving us some good news?” “You have been married for so long now…” “Isn’t it time for a baby?” “What are you waiting for?” Often these words are spoken with affection. In many...
At the beginning, trying for a baby can feel romantic. A few months later, you may find yourself staring at ovulation strips under the bathroom light, checking the calendar, calculating cycle days and wondering whether you should wake your husband because the app says tonight is important. Somewhere along the way, intimacy becomes a schedule. I remember...
Today, we are becoming increasingly open about topics that were once considered too private or uncomfortable to discuss. And yet, infertility and IVF still remain surrounded by a certain silence. Although IVF is widely known and increasingly talked about, many women are still hesitant to share their personal experience. I understand why. Trying to conceive is deeply...
