Fertility – Bethany Rutledge https://bethanyrutledge.com Thu, 14 Feb 2019 21:14:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://bethanyrutledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Untitled-design-24-150x150.png Fertility – Bethany Rutledge https://bethanyrutledge.com 32 32 Why I decided to be open about having fertility treatments https://bethanyrutledge.com/2017/why-we-decided-to-pursue-ivf/ https://bethanyrutledge.com/2017/why-we-decided-to-pursue-ivf/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2019 21:26:46 +0000 https://bethanyrutledge.com/?p=3646 Should you be open about having fertility treatments? In retrospect, the hardest part about IVF (in-vitro fertilization), was keeping the secret. More specifically, the angst around deciding whether to keep things a secret or just tell the world. At first, I didn’t want to tell anyone at all. Then the start Read more…

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]]> https://bethanyrutledge.com/2017/why-we-decided-to-pursue-ivf/feed/ 2 should you look into fertility treatments? 5 signs the answer is yes https://bethanyrutledge.com/ivf/fertility-treatments-start-process/ https://bethanyrutledge.com/ivf/fertility-treatments-start-process/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2019 23:20:47 +0000 https://bethanyrutledge.com/?p=3456 You know what they say about the best time to start something. Well in the case of assessing your fertility, the best time wasn’t yesterday. It was likely a ways before that. Wah wah. Cue the world’s smallest violin. But I promise it’s not all bad news. Just by reading Read more…

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]]> https://bethanyrutledge.com/ivf/fertility-treatments-start-process/feed/ 1 Bittersweet March 1st https://bethanyrutledge.com/2018/bittersweet-day-march/ https://bethanyrutledge.com/2018/bittersweet-day-march/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:41:33 +0000 http://bethanyrutledge.com/?p=2680 [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]March 1st was a bittersweet day. We found out our first embryo transfer worked, and Sadie went to heaven. Both of these events were unexpected. I had four egg retrievals in six months that garnered exactly two usable embryos, one of which was mosaic. What were the chances that both of them would stick? Read more…

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]]> https://bethanyrutledge.com/2018/bittersweet-day-march/feed/ 4 IVF Stories: It’s All Downhill From Here and Other Ambiguous Phrases https://bethanyrutledge.com/2017/downhill-ambiguous-phrases/ https://bethanyrutledge.com/2017/downhill-ambiguous-phrases/#comments Wed, 29 Nov 2017 14:32:37 +0000 http://bethanyrutledge.com/?p=2338 The following was written after I experienced three egg retrievals in a row in 2017, with only one embryo recommended for transfer. “It’s all downhill from here”  is a duplicitous phrase. It connotes both easy coasting ahead and some sort of decline. If someone yells it during a run race Read more…

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