Nobody Told Me Infertility Would Be So Boring

We were doing everything right, but nothing was happening

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It didn’t seem real when the doctor said we’d have to do IVF if we ever wanted to get pregnant. IVF was the kind of thing you hear about other people doing, a sort of mysterious process where sad couples who can’t get pregnant on their own mix their fluids together in a test tube and make a…