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Fertility Treatment: The Two Realities

The reality is that fertility treatment is successful, a lot of the time.  The reality is also that fertility treatment does not work, at least some of the time.  Two realities.  We need to understand what we're looking at.

Here are a few more details that fill in the picture:  Sometimes, more often than you realize, a fertility cycle will work the very first time that you do one.  Sometimes the journey is longer than that, and you will need a longer view and reach, more diagnostic tests and fertility treatment cycles.  A fertility cycle that is not going well, not going as planned, can turn around in the middle and absolutely flourish.  And sometimes the best, most wonderful looking outcomes do not result in a pregnancy.

Those are all realities.  They are not even possible realities.  They are realities every day, side-by-side, for different individuals.  None of these scenarios mean that you won't eventually achieve fertility success.  What they can mean is that sometimes the road to parenthood and a sucessful preganancy will be longer than you think--or shorter than you think.

The question, or the point, is how you spend your time in fertility treatment.  Expect a wide range of emotions and reactions:

Hopefullness. 

Fear.

Anticipation.

Disappointment.

Excitement.

Disbelief.

Happiness.

Exhaustion.

Doggedness.

Perseverence.

Expect a growing awareness that you have all of those feelings and much more.  You have the emotional, physical, and mental fortitude to push through the feelings to get the medical care that you need to meet your goal of having a baby.  Whatever holiday you are celebrating, please remember to celebrate yourself.  Fertility treatment is not for the faint-hearted.

As I say in Fertile Yoga:  You are beautiful.  You are graceful.  You are whole and complete.  Just as you are in this moment, with this breath.  Nothing needs to be different in this moment.

Namaste.