Alys in Real Life

This is the start of NIAW (National Infertility Awareness Week.) I wanted to write a post on infertility etiquette. Some of these things have happened personally, and some of these things have happened to others that I have heard about. These memes I am putting on here are for pure entertainment, so please don’t get offended. I have a bunch of them saved from over the years on my Pinterest board. Sometimes humor helps you get over depression and these gave me a good laugh.   Some of them are in no way how I actually felt, but I know some ladies who are dealing with infertility have felt like that in one point of their journey. It’s just supposed to be funny. So laugh. You probably know someone with infertility. It affects 1 in 8 couples, for many different reasons. It is hard to properly put into words the pain of infertility. Imagine wanting something so bad, more than anything in the whole world, and get denied that one thing month after month. Month after month you are rem...

I wanted to sit down and write a post about what IVF is, for those wanting to know what Chris and I went through and for those having to go through IVF themselves. I would suppose IVF is your last option for kids. Unless you go the surrogacy route or adoption. We have done many IUI’s, where they put the sperm directly into the uterus, all of them failed, so IVF was our last and final option.   IVF is a very long, hard, emotional, trying process, and I can honestly sit here and tell you it was a piece of cake! Here is one of the best tips I can give you (if you are having to go through IVF yourself) DON’T STRESS! Stress will only make it worse, trust me. I have had some ladies in the TTC community (trying to conceive) ask me what I think I did to make IVF successful, and what I honestly think worked is I was stress-free.  I joined an IVF support group on Facebook and I also started an IVF Instagram account to track our journey. Many women who are going through IVF make a ...