Saving my hospital socks during infertility was a balm for my grief. They taught me a lesson about how possessions can define us, and what it means when our relationship with them changes
I'd never heard the thing about keeping the feet warm, but I completely understand the need to 'try everything.' For me it was eating pineapple core, reflexology, acupuncture...... I hated the abbreviations on fertility sites; it was a whole new language to learn in a club noone wanted to be a member of. In Birmingham, U.K the NHS gives you one free I.V.F go and I remember they only managed to retrieve 5 eggs and none of them were up to the required standard. Our hopes were crushed in that minute. It was soul-destroying. We got a call the next morning. Overnight one had become viable, low-grade but viable! Our daughter is almost 10 and I'm the luckiest mom in the world!
I'd never heard the thing about keeping the feet warm, but I completely understand the need to 'try everything.' For me it was eating pineapple core, reflexology, acupuncture...... I hated the abbreviations on fertility sites; it was a whole new language to learn in a club noone wanted to be a member of. In Birmingham, U.K the NHS gives you one free I.V.F go and I remember they only managed to retrieve 5 eggs and none of them were up to the required standard. Our hopes were crushed in that minute. It was soul-destroying. We got a call the next morning. Overnight one had become viable, low-grade but viable! Our daughter is almost 10 and I'm the luckiest mom in the world!