We Put the F in IVF
It's been 3.5 months since our last post as we neared the end of our first IVF cycle (the fact that I refer to it as our first should be a clue as to how it went), and those few months already feel like they were a million years ago. As the title of this post says, we put the F in IVF, in more ways than one: F as in fertilization, which apparently we are awesome at (yay Ben?)! But also F as in...we failed. And also as in FUCK THIS SHIT and just FUCKING FUCKKKK this whole thing (sorry mom and dad). I wanted to use this space to document the ins and outs of the IVF process, I really did, but truth be told, at this point it's in the rearview mirror and I just do not have the emotional energy to relive every (disappointing) step. There are other blogs out there who do that wonderfully and gracefully, but alas, despite my hopes and best attempts, this is not going to be one of them. To sum it up very briefly, our IVF journey lasted two months (October-December 2020) and ended wit...
