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Monday, August 29, 2011

The end of the yellow brick IVF road - farewell

Its been two months now since our last IVF cycle failed and we haven't changed our minds about stopping IVF. I think our decision is the right one and I haven't had any second thoughts. So now its time to say farewell to this blog.

I'm trying to move on from our TTC journey and so stopping writing this blog is part of that. I started it nearly three years ago and in that time, we've been through 3 stimulated cycles, 3 frozen cycles, 2 cancelled cycles but most importantly one pregnancy, and one birth of our beautiful girl.

This blog has been fantastic therapy for me to make sense of this whole stressful, agonising, scary but ultimately amazing process. I'm so grateful to all the wonderful people who read the blog and cheered me on from the sidelines. I know we are truly one of the lucky ones that succeeded at IVF and I hope that some of my posts have helped others in the same position and given them hope.

As for me, I'm doing ok. I still feel sad that we can't give our lovely daughter a brother or sister and perhaps that feeling will never go away. And part of me has a small shred of hope at the end of each cycle that we might just manage to get pregnant the 'natural' way yet. But that's a very slim hope. I'm starting to move on now - planning out our life, my career and lots of other things. I'm not sure yet how this IVF stuff has affected me - perhaps I'm more tolerant, more patient and more grateful for what we do have. I certainly hope so anyway.

So its goodbye from me and thanks for reading.