"If you've been through fertility treatment, this feeling may sound familiar. The constant pokes, prods, scans, and monitoring can leave you feeling exposed, vulnerable, and trapped in a body that no longer feels like your own. What once felt familiar and within your control may start to feel dictated by procedures, hormone injections, blood draws, and appointments, taking both an emotional and physical toll."
"The quiet, personal experience of trying to conceive at home is often replaced by bright lights, schedules, and clinic rooms. Even the small things that once brought comfort, like exercise routines or enjoying sushi or a glass of wine, may suddenly be off limits. Over time, the loss of your routines, favorite stress relievers, and other everyday choices add up, leaving you feeling disconnected from your body and unsure of how to get that sense of ownership back."
Fertility treatment can transform a private bodily experience into a medicalized process marked by procedures, scans, injections, and monitoring. Repeated interventions and loss of everyday routines can cause feelings of exposure, vulnerability, and disconnection from one’s body. Bodies can feel public, discussed and measured by strangers, and unpredictable due to hormonal effects on mood, sleep, appetite, and libido. Grieving the loss of a once-trusted body and naming that loss can reduce emotional weight and support healing. Reclaiming the body means integrating the fertility journey without letting it become the sole identity. With time, intentional self-care, and patience, the body can feel familiar and open to connection again.
Read at Psychology Today
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