Nobody warns you how much of this is waiting.

Two weeks to find out. A month before you can try again. Another appointment that gives you information without giving you an answer. In between, you are expected to work, show up at the baby shower, and stay hopeful on a schedule.

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Infertility is a medical process carrying an emotional weight that almost nobody outside of it understands, including people who love you and keep saying the wrong thing.

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What it actually looks like:

You track everything and still feel entirely out of control.

You are on a first-name basis with your clinic and a stranger in your own life.

Your partner carries it differently than you do, and that gap starts to hurt.

You leave the group chat after another pregnancy announcement.

You say you are fine mostly to end the conversation faster.

You grieve losses that other people never counted as losses.

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What we actually do about it:

Kate Staikos, MHC-LP, works with people through infertility, IVF, and pregnancy loss. The work makes room for the grief and the waiting, helps you and your partner stop misreading each other, and gives you one place to be honest about the parts you cannot say at the clinic or at dinner. Every session is by secure video, so therapy fits around monitoring appointments instead of adding another trip across town. Kate is in network with Aetna and Cigna.