by Melissa Willets posted in Pregnancy

Over the next 5 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.

You'd think being subjected to weeks of painful injections, then going under anesthesia for your eggs to be surgically removed, would be the hardest part of IVF.
You'd be wrong.
Waiting to find out if any of your eggs are viable is much harder than the physical discomfort of the shots, or the very real fear of being put under. Then, waiting to learn if any of your eggs were fertilized to produce embryos, is even harder than that. But it gets more difficult from there.
After we found out, mercifully, my egg retrieval was successful, and that a fair amount of my eggs had fertilized, it was time for more grueling waiting. Yes, I felt relieved we'd come this far, but I was terrified to death that at any point, our IVF journey could come to an abrupt, and heartbreaking end.
The next step petrified me more than anything. We'd opted to conduct pre-implantation genetic testing on our embryos, because I'd lost my last pregnancy due to genetic issues. I'd convinced myself I was no longer capa...