If you’re looking for advice about options surrounding fertility, pregnancy or counselling, always consult your doctor.
When you’re a few cycles into fertility treatment, the anticipation passes and you come to know the ins and outs of what you need to do.
For me, that has been a relief. I feel more in control of what is going on because I know the process. What I didn’t expect was that the side effects would be worse the longer you’re on the medications.
Oh, the side effects. I know each of you who are in the position I am must dread facing the day sometimes, because of how you feel physically, mentally and emotionally. Knowing that someone else feels the same way, or knowing someone else understands what you are going through, can help.
Before I met my new fellow infertility friends I felt really alone — but I now know I am not.
In the hope that someone new to this journey is reading this, I want to tell you what this process has done to my body, my mind and my heart, so you know you are not alone.
Do you ever look at yourself in the mirror and think, ‘Geez, I’ve changed’? Today was the day. Thanks to the baby-making medications I take, my body has become alien to me.
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Let me set the scene for you. We will go head to toe.
My hair has become lifeless and the greys that have been there for a while have come out in full force at the front of my head, so I look like a skunk. They also stick upwards at a 90-degree angle, which is super pretty.