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How to survive IVF

The strange thing about IVF clinics is that the waiting rooms are incredibly quiet. You’d think that a group of women in a room, all going through the same rigorous process, would be more friendly but, in fact, the silence often represents the private pain of a process that is more Frankenstein than beautiful earth mother.

And while IVF can be an amazing, life-changing event for many women, it can also be an expensive, confusing carpet ride filled with twists and turns.

“Anxiety is the emotion I see most often in IVF patients,” says psychologist Cath Corcoran, a conception and

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