Friday, October 04, 2013

Failed IVF – what next ?


When your IVF cycle fails, it's often hard to bounce back. Even though your head understands that IVF doesn't have a 100% success rate, it's hard to deal with the failure. In their heart of hearts, every patient who starts an IVF cycle believes that this cycle is going to work ! ( If they didn't, it'd be very difficult to even start the cycle ).

When the cycle fails, your hopes go crashing down, and it is difficult to pick up the pieces and carry on living. This is why it's important to give yourself some time ; grieve; and then bounce back. Rather than get stuck with thinking about if onlys and blaming yourself for the failure, you need to use an analytical framework, so you know what to do next.

Read more at http://www.drmalpani.com/failed-ivf-what-next.htm

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