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[quote=Anonymous]I was in this boat a year ago. I had done 3 IVFs that failed and was gearing up for my 4th (and final.) Then I get a call about a job as I was just about to start all the tests/stims. I told them that I had some unfinished stuff from my self-employment life that I'd need to finish and they said no problem. As it was, I was able to get to work on time for the a.m. monitoring, but when they had retrieval and transfer, I had to take those days off.

In the middle of it all, when I was about to go back for the transfer of the embryos, I up and quit the job. I'd been there 2 weeks, but the stress level was insanely sick. I realized that I was making a choice - stay at a stressful job and risk the very real possibility that the embryos don't implant/stay inside me, or quit. I quit.

The process is very stressful and if the job is stressful you really might be in for the ringer. We felt like, why spend 15K on IVF and meds only to sabotage it ourselves. It was so far the only IVF that worked, and I'm currently 35 weeks. So from my perspective - I think you can see that to me, I'm with your mom. Screw work, you have the rest of your life to work - you don't have the rest of your life and bank account to keep trying for a baby.[/quote]

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