Infertility can be one of the more bewildering things to happen to a
person. Everybody else around you has babies as easily as sneezing, it
seems. Meanwhile you do what needs to be done, month after
disappointing month, and nothing.
After a certain point, you
begin to realize that maybe there’s something wrong. And its at that
point where things really get confusing. You get thrown into an
alphabet soup of tests and treatments – what’s an HSG? Is it different
from HCG? Why is this so hard and why does it cost so much?
There’s
plenty out there online that can help you navigate, but certainly for
me a few years ago, it tended toward the emotionally supportive, which
was good, and the chirpy (“baby dust”, anyone? Gah), which was bad.
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