by Melissa Willets posted in Pregnancy

Over the next 4 weeks, we invite you to come along on an IVF journey, step by intense step. From making the decision to go forward with in-vitro fertilization, to the meds involved and what they?re really like, and to finding out whether this emotional and sometimes painful roller coaster ride yielded the results so dreamed of and prayed for. BabyCenter blogger Melissa Willets will be documenting every detail in a series of blog posts.
Each time I walked into the IVF clinic I'd visited regularly for months prior to my transfer cycle, the heaviness of the emotions around me blanketed me like a fog. None of the other women waiting in cushy chairs talked. But we didn't have to say anything. Our hopes, dreams, fears, disappointments and heartbreak, hung thickly in the air we shared in a room that had become familiar to us all. I'd experienced the madness of waiting for results after my egg retrieval procedure. Despite being 100 percent convinced my doctor wouldn't get viable eggs, then knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt the eggs wouldn't fertilize, I'd actually made it to the next step in my IVF journey: the transfer cycle.
Knowing some women don't get the good news I had, to my shock, just received added to the weight of this particular visit. As usual, I got a blood test. Then my nurse explained what happened next. And I was in for another shock.
Because the injections I'd endured while prepping for my egg retrieval, which leftÂ...