Personal story about stopping IVFfrom @shamelesspodcast

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I actually really, really struggled with it. It really broke me in a way that I didn't think was possible at this time in my life when I best like I had so much going for me, like, you know, a really lovely husband, a career that was going well, all these things. Eventually, we just decided that I just didn't wanna do it anymore because I was like, I do want kids, but I don't want the years that I've, like you know, I've spent years, like, working so hard to build myself a career that I really love. And the second that things are getting interesting for me and then I'm actually getting to pick and choose, like, the projects I work on and to do interesting things, I'm now having to worry about, you know, being in the hospital every other day. And and and just the thing about IVF is that it's so many instances of bad news that you end up like almost being you're bogged down by it. Like it's the only thing you can think about tier actually like even in when you're very keen to have a child. I'm not like thinking about it, like, all day better day. It's not something that, like, sort of is in my mind all the time. The reason I wanted to write about it is because I think we get a lot of stories of when it's been successful. People who have either stopped doing it because they've decided I don't want kids anymore or because they've had a child. And I was like, I would like to, you know, be able to share whilst in the throes of it and and that, like, uncertainty, which is just so difficult to to live with.