How do you know it’s time to start fertility treatment?
There’s always a chance it might happen next month – right? So when is the moment to make that first appointment?
Good morning!
I’m addressing quite a basic question today: when exactly should you start IVF? It’s an easy question to answer for some of us, but for others, who have unexplained infertility or borderline results, there’s no set “moment”.
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Enjoy!
Emma x
You may be familiar with Gabby’s TTC story: that when she was beginning to realise conceiving wasn’t going to be as simple as she thought, she booked herself and Mr Gabby a holiday.
The idea, she has since admitted, was that they would be so relaxed (ha) that they would conceive, probably in the shadow of Mount Fuji or under the falling petals of cherry blossom (admittedly I have added this detail myself but I know her and that’s definitely what she was visualising), and they would have a lovely story to tell their baby, who would have a gorgeous Japanese name.
Obviously, it didn’t happen like that. There was no Mount Fuji as the background to their conception, or cherry blossom. Instead, there were needles and doctors and a lot of dates with Wanda. It was a lot less romantic.
For me, the decision to move on to IVF was made before I even started trying to conceive: my tubes were blocked, I had no other way of getting pregnant. But for Gabby, and for a lot of others, it’s less clear, because their infertility is unexplained, or their results are borderline, or they’ve been told it could happen naturally.
If you, like Gabby, would like a nice story to tell your children – or you are simply keen on doing things naturally, then knowing when to take the next step can be a difficult decision. How do you know it’s time?