Infertility can make time feel unreliable. A month can hold careful tracking, injections, appointments, hope, and then a phone call changes everything. The loss of control while navigating infertility can feel overwhelming, often bringing significant timeline shifts. It can be a canceled cycle due to baseline bloodwork or months of waiting for financial reasons. This represents just one side of the invisible, disenfranchised grief of infertility that society often fails to re

I remember driving at 5:30 a.m., blasting “Lovely Day” on my way to a day-2 bloodwork and ultrasound appointment. And suddenly, I was hit by a wave of panic, dread and complete darkness. I arrived at the clinic with bloodshot eyes and, of course, someone asked me if everything was okay. “Everything’s okay,” I said. I wasn’t okay. I was exhausted from going in for the same appointments over and over again and getting the same results. Numb from being told we were ready for tra