Life After IVF: Why Some New Moms Experience Depression
It was autumn of 2010 when Amy Warren and her husband decided it was time to give their nearly two-year-old daughter a sibling. The Toronto-based mom was a young 34 and figured getting pregnant would be a cinch?it had been the first time around when Amy and her husband tried for just a few months before conceiving. So it made perfect sense that they expected she?d be pregnant with baby No. 2 in a flash.
But 2010 came and went, and so did 2011. ?After a frustrating year of not getting pregnant, my doctor suggested we go to a fertility clinic,? says Amy. The couple went in January 2012, but they didn?t feel a connection with the clinic?s doctors, who pushed for in vitro fertilization (IVF) before recommending other options. ?We had just bought our first house and the numbers didn?t add up to undergo IVF at the time. We decided to investigate other options first,? she says. So the couple kept trying and, with each passing month, faced more disappointment when they learned Amy wasn?t pregnant. When they were still baby-less by the end of the year, they went to another clinic wanting answers.
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