My husband and I require IVF to get pregnant. There’s no surprise for us. We don’t get to be surprised by a pregnancy. Happy, shocking, etc. None of that is our reality.
Once you’re in the depths of infertility, it’s literally impossible to imagine or fathom what it’s like for the “majority” of people - the fertile world. I can’t believe that some people just think about having children, and have them easily!
Little did we know, when we started trying a few years later, the question would shift. No longer were the questions when or how many, but if we would even have a single child. For us, we felt lucky, and our first round of IVF worked, giving us our son, but that doesn’t mean I was no longer infertile. It didn’t make infertility go away. And when we started trying for a second, we received the same assumptions!
So many things. There are so many words and emotions to use to describe infertility and everything it brings to our lives. Infertility has changed my life, my past, present and future. It feels like a constant battle mentally, physically and emotionally. It isn't something you can 'get over' or that goes away. It rules our lives every minute of everyday, even at the times you try to not think about it.
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