‘My IVF Failed. Then the Bills Started Showing Up’

glamour.com:

Experiences of infertility always have one thing in common: uncertainty. The countless visits to doctors, the months (or years) of planning, the tens of thousands of dollars, never add up to a guarantee.

Even under the best of circumstances, there’s only so much about a pregnancy you can plan, and in the midst of a global pandemic, the idea of planning anything seems foolish.

For National Infertility Awareness Week, .When I was presented with the option of financing two rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF), I didn’t think twice.

I asked where to sign and borrowed roughly $30,000 to make my dream of motherhood come true.I was only 27 at the time and single.