{"id":1156,"date":"2020-02-01T14:50:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T14:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.theduff.co.uk\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2020-12-22T09:04:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T09:04:36","slug":"ivf-what-to-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theduff.co.uk\/ivf-what-to-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"7 things no one tells you about IVF<\/strong> (and what to do about them)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

YOU'VE WARNED YOUR PARTNER ABOUT RAGING HORMONES<\/strong>. You\u2019ve been on a training course to deal with your needle phobia. You\u2019ve read every single article on this website (whoop!). You\u2019ve saved up all your annual leave from work. You\u2019ve bought a container ship\u2019s worth of folic acid. And you\u2019ve stopped smoking, drinking and stressing out (ha!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations: you still have absolutely no idea what you\u2019re in for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s not to say the reality is worse<\/em> than you expect (my own experience was often better than I imagined): it\u2019s just to serve as a warning that the process may well play out differently from what you imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are some of the surprises that cropped up for me during IVF. You\u2019ll no doubt experience a few of them yourself, but you\u2019re bound to have a few new ones of your own, too. Your best bet is to go with the flow and deal with what comes your way \u2013 without worrying about what could <\/em>happen in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n