Category: Our Journey
Starting is scary and overwhelming
Hi this is Sam. Ok, first post of our website. Here we go! For many of us, the conversation about fertility and children starts when it’s the last thing on our minds — when someone asks when we’re having kids. “OMG Mom, stop, I don’t know. Not anytime soon!” In my 20s and especially early…
The math I didn’t want to do
I turned 40 recently, and I spent a chunk of the day doing math I didn’t want to do. The kind where you line up your age against the odds and the costs and the timelines and try to make it all come out okay. It doesn’t really come out okay on a calculator. That’s…
The first time I gave a shot
Nobody really prepares you for the moment you’re standing in the kitchen holding a needle, about to give it to someone you love. My hands were not steady that first night. I read the instructions four times. I made Sam wait while I worked up the nerve, which, in hindsight, probably did not help her…
Why we started writing this down
When we started IVF, we went looking for a guide that talked to us like people instead of patients. We found plenty of clinics explaining procedures, plenty of forums, plenty of numbers. What we couldn’t find was the version written by someone actually in it, who would just be honest about the money, the waiting,…