WHAT YOUR FERTILITY DOCTOR WISHES YOU KNEW BEFORE YOU STARTED

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May 15, 2026

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What your fertility doctor wishes you knew before you started

Most people start their IVF or surrogacy journey completely unprepared for what actually happens between the first consultation and the baby.

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Bottom line
Your doctor is not withholding information to confuse you. They are working inside a system that was not built to explain itself. That gap is yours to close before you walk in.

Not the medical steps. Those you can Google.

The waiting. The anxiety. The moment you find out how many embryos are normal and your entire nervous system shuts down.

Dr. Michael Guarnaccia from the New England Fertility Institute has spent more than 30 years inside this. He sat down with us to say the things most clinics do not have time to say in a consultation.

Separate
The medical steps are predictable. The emotional timeline is not.
Reality
The 2am anxiety is not a sign something is wrong. It is a sign nobody prepared you for the waiting.
Shift
The families who finish intact are not the ones who had it easiest. They are the ones who understood what they were managing.
The part no one explains clearly
There is a difference between what your clinic tells you and what your doctor wishes they had time to tell you.
What regaining control looks like
Knowing the right questions before the consultation starts, not after it ends.

With love,

IVF Daddies