Real IVF stories
Numbers tell you what happens on average. They do not tell you what the week after a failed transfer feels like, or what people wish they had asked. This is a place for that, in people's own words.
These are personal experiences, not medical evidence. Nothing here predicts what will happen for you, and no story is edited to make the site look better. We publish nothing until a person has checked it.
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