When IVF Brings Guilt, Shame, and Loss

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Going through IVF or fertility treatment is often described in clinical terms, timelines, protocols, outcomes. But emotionally, it is something very different. It can feel like a constant state of waiting, hoping, bracing, and trying to hold yourself together in between. There is the physical toll, the appointments, the medications, the uncertainty. And then there […]