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[quote=Anonymous]To be fair to her, she had worked at the school for eight years and was fired when she was 31.  I doubt that many 23 year-olds think about whether or not they will need to do IVF before considering what job to take.  Every 23 year old assumes they will get married, have sex, and get pregnant right away.

Also, I tried really hard for years to keep my infertility from everyone, including my family and friends but also from the people in my workplace.  IVF involves months of monitoring and appointments followed by several days that you must take off to do the egg retrieval and transfer.  Eventually, both my husband and I had to tell our bosses what was going on in order to get leave approved.  I think that more people we worked with knew what was going on than people in our families because we missed meetings, couldn't go on business trips during certain periods, etc.

Anyone who thinks that it is possible to keep this information totally private has never faced the logistical dilemmas that come with IVF. [/quote]

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