🧬 The IVF Timeline Your Clinic Should’ve Given You (But Didn’t)

By Julio Gaggia — IVF Daddies

1. The “Oh Shit, We’re Starting” Phase

This is where you suddenly become a pharmacist, mathematician, part-time nurse, and full-time overthinker. A NASA launch with zero training — welcome to IVF.

2. The Hormone Rollercoaster Zone

Your body is doing the most. Your brain is doing whatever it wants. You’re not dramatic — you’re human and doing something hard.

3. The Monitoring Loop (aka “Is It Working?”)

Every scan feels like a performance review. Every hormone number feels like a personality test. Your clinic says “You’re responding nicely”… meaning: “We don’t know yet — stay tuned.”

4. The Clinic Silence Phase

Your clinic: ghost mode. You: refreshing the patient portal like it’s Black Friday. This is the anxiety tax of IVF. No one warns you. We do.

5. The Egg Retrieval Zone

You go under. You wake up asking for snacks and answers. The egg count becomes your new intrusive thought — but eggs ≠ embryos.

6. The Lab Drama Phase

Embryos grow in chaos and magic. Not linear. Not predictable. Proud-parent energy + spiraling + Google addiction = normal.

7. The Embryo Results Drop

One phone call. A thousand emotions. There is no perfect number — only your number.

8. The Transfer Hope Tunnel

The warm table. The full bladder. The tiny flash on the screen. Hopeful. Scared. Tender. Changed.

9. The 2-Week Mind Prison

Logic disappears. Symptoms lie. Google becomes toxic. You’re not losing it — you’re human.

10. The Outcome Drop

You did something incredibly hard. Whatever comes next, your emotions are valid — all of them.

💗 What No Clinic Will Ever Say Out Loud

We — IVF Daddies — are the poetry behind the pipelines. We say the quiet part out loud. We hold the emotional truth clinics aren’t allowed to say.

We believe in science. We believe in IVF. We believe in families — queer, single, messy, chosen.

IVF isn’t easy. But it is worth it — profoundly worth it. And you deserve a guide that tells the truth with hope.

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❤️ With love,
Julio Gaggia — IVF Daddies

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