Is it normal to be terrified?

I’m about to finalise my payment for going through IVF privately… but I’m second-guessing myself constantly and wondering should we just “keep trying naturally” even though I know that won’t work! 🫣 Is it normal to have these doubts?! I really do want a baby, but I’m feeling so overwhelmed and terrified of the whole process! I’m doubting myself constantly on whether or not I’m strong enough for all this. I guess I feel like I should be more “excited” to start this journey, but I’m so, so scared!

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Hey I am encouraging you to go ahead with the plan, you will be amazed at how strong and capable you are. So many ppl will jump on this opportunity if they have the money for it❤️

Christina; IVF is hard and it is physically and emotionally difficult to deal with. I just lost my baby after 21 weeks, she was my third transfer. We will continue until we cannot do it anymore. As soon as I was diagnosed the best course of action was to go for assisted fertility, but my husband and I decided to try it naturally because we were young. Now we are older and I wished I had started earlier, as the years go by it becomes more challenging. My suggestion is to go for it, even if you feel unprepared, the blessing of having a little one it’s worth everything. Wishing you the best of luck with stimulation, retrieval, cycling, transfer and a successful pregnancy.

If it helps at all, my experience was that I felt much better when I went through with the finance side and money left the account! Of course, having IVF depends on loads of factors influencing your decision but adding in the financial outlay is an extra layer to grapple with! Good luck xxx

That probably won’t go away tbh. And actually having a baby isn’t any less terrifying, that’s the truth. I can’t tell you what to do. But I do believe a large component of motherhood is about getting comfortable with being scared.

I went through this for 6 years. We knew after all the tests we could never conceive naturally due to male factor infertility. My partner was too scared to have the procedure he needed as he felt if it didn’t work then our hopes would be crushed. We went on like this for 6 years until I finally persuaded him to please let us try the ivf route. We were very lucky and it worked first time for us. I’m now almost 35 with a 11 month old and we want another but feel time is now against us. We need to have another embryo transfer sooner rather than later. I wish we went for it straight away as soon as we found out we would have to have ivf. I feel those 6 years were wasted wondering and hoping a miracle would somehow happen. Women are incredibly strong and you will surprise yourself how strong you are! Good luck with your journey whatever you decide to do x

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