With infertility, sometimes daring to hope is the most difficult thing
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It's 3 a.m. My wife is going for her official pregnancy test later that morning to see if our embryo transfer worked. I wake up as she crawls into bed behind me. "I couldn't wait, so I took a test," she tells me.
I wait, steeling myself for the results.
"It was negative," she says. I deflate. No baby this month.
One in six couples has trouble conceiving. I never imagined I'd be one of them.
My wife had told me that she probably wouldn't be able to conceive naturally back on our third date. "Well, if we get to that point, I guess we'll just do IVF," I thought to myself. I assumed you just paid some money and voila! A baby. It turns out it's not that simple.
This was our third try.
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