The No BS Guide to What IVF is REALLY Like
To have and to hold... in sickness and in health... and injecting your wife with needles in order to have a baby. Before we did the IVF process, I had the worst fear of needles. I will tell you from experience that nothing gets rid of your needle phobia quite like injecting yourself with hormones in an airport bathroom. So, what is the IVF experience like? For me, it was a trial by fire. Going through IVF is like another full-time job. During stimming (the injection of follicle stimulating hormones in order to increase the production of eggs) I was visiting the fertility clinic nearly every other day. On the first day of stims, a huge box came in the mail. I almost could not believe that all of this medication was for me! There are 2-4 injections per day. The Gonal-F wasn't bad, but I heard nightmare stories about how much the Menopur burned. Eric must have done some sort of voodoo magic because I barely even felt it at all. There's nothing more romant...
