SlowlyWeGrow

When you’re trying to conceive, life can begin to feel like one long pause. Everything becomes a countdown — to ovulation, to test day, to the next appointment, to the next cycle. It is easy to slip into the feeling that life hasn’t really begun yet, that you are waiting for permission to start living.…

A few days ago, I read comments from a local councillor describing IVF as a “lifestyle choice”. I stopped scrolling and read the words again. A lifestyle choice. The words, cool and indifferent, sat there as if they had never brushed against a human life. A lifestyle choice. Not medicine. Not treatment. Not the quiet,…