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Trying to conceive, treatment, and the waiting.
Trying to conceive can quietly take over your thinking, your calendar and your relationship. These articles name the mental load of the waiting and of treatment, and point to support for you and your partner.
If you are going through IVF, IUI, or any other fertility treatment, and it feels like it has taken over your mind as much as your body, that makes complete sense.
If you are struggling to conceive, you may be carrying a grief that nobody has ever quite named for you. There is no funeral for the child you haven't had, no ritual, no obvious moment to mark it.
If trying to conceive has quietly taken over more of your headspace than you expected, you are not imagining it, and you are not alone.