The Dark Side...

This week has been spent recovering and preparing for next month. I received my fertility binder and have gone over all of the steps needed for IVF at least twice. So far I've checked off most of them. I just need to get my uterus mapped on Monday, go through financial planning and clinical coordination on Tuesday, and then I'm "ready" for the next stage. (If anyone can be ready to inject themselves with a bunch of mood altering medications in order to produce multiple eggs. Which if done successfully the patient is then "ready" to be put under and have a needle navigated through their interior to suck their egg laden follicles dry.)

I guess that's the dark side of IVF, the one that women in their 30's and 40's don't talk about much. The press usually focuses on the fact that they have a baby, not what they have to go through to make it happen.