Key points

Common stress reduction activities often don't work for fertility patients.

Shock and overwhelm are common feelings when building your family with reproductive medicine.

Helpful stress reduction strategies are often counterintuitive.

Finding enjoyable activities where you see a result for your efforts can be very stabilizing.

The longer you are on your family building journey, the more likely you are to be in survival mode, trying to limit the problems that may come your way. In the beginning, you may have had an expansion mindset, hopeful that treatment will work and excited for the prospect of raising children with family or friends. Although fertility treatment is typically successful, the process can be difficult emotionally, physically and financially, and sometimes it

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