Where to begin.. I never thought it would happen to me
Actually that's not strictly true, I had an idea way back when it didn't really matter that trying to conceive (or TTC in the infertility lingo) might be tricky for me once I figured out I had endometriosis, but tricky in a 'it'll probably take a bit longer' or 'we might need a bit of help' but IVF... nooo, certainly not me! That happened to people you don't know, you see the occasional thing on the news or hear about your cousins, friends sister type thing...
This view however is blinkered, infertility affects 1 in 7 heterosexual couples in the UK! That's a lot, and doesn't include anybody in a same sex relationship or doing it solo - I salute you all! That means if you filled Twickenham to capacity (80,000 - and yes I am still sad that the 6 Nations didn't get finished) with hetero couples, 11,440 of them would be infertile.
Anyway.. moving on from my bad (although correct; I checked) Math and Rugby references there are a lot of people struggling to make babies or as Chandler says "So, a lot of malfunctioning wee-wees and hoo-hoos in this room, huh?" and as much as I joke anybody reading this that feels the struggle of infertility know it is definitely no joke! Infertility sucks arse!
So I thought that with the country on lockdown due to the awful Coronavirus and me at home (as I hope all of you that aren't keyworkers are too) I would document some of our journey. Hopefully answer some questions people may have and whatever stage you are at, wherever in your journey you are, I am here, hopefully with some support and a little knowledge from our experience, mainly I know - I know how you feel and I get it, I am you. Sadly I don't yet have a happy ending, our first cycle of ICSI-IVF has just failed, our two little embabies didn't make it to transfer but here we are, lets not start the book halfway through.
This view however is blinkered, infertility affects 1 in 7 heterosexual couples in the UK! That's a lot, and doesn't include anybody in a same sex relationship or doing it solo - I salute you all! That means if you filled Twickenham to capacity (80,000 - and yes I am still sad that the 6 Nations didn't get finished) with hetero couples, 11,440 of them would be infertile.
Anyway.. moving on from my bad (although correct; I checked) Math and Rugby references there are a lot of people struggling to make babies or as Chandler says "So, a lot of malfunctioning wee-wees and hoo-hoos in this room, huh?" and as much as I joke anybody reading this that feels the struggle of infertility know it is definitely no joke! Infertility sucks arse!
So I thought that with the country on lockdown due to the awful Coronavirus and me at home (as I hope all of you that aren't keyworkers are too) I would document some of our journey. Hopefully answer some questions people may have and whatever stage you are at, wherever in your journey you are, I am here, hopefully with some support and a little knowledge from our experience, mainly I know - I know how you feel and I get it, I am you. Sadly I don't yet have a happy ending, our first cycle of ICSI-IVF has just failed, our two little embabies didn't make it to transfer but here we are, lets not start the book halfway through.
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