There’s no getting around that fact.
It’s emotionally draining, physically exhausting, and more than a little bit crazy-making.
(Seriously, reproductive system: You.
Strangely enough, hearing about celebrities who’ve battled this beast can be somewhat comforting.
After Cruise and Kidman divorced in 2001, Kidman eventually married country music superstar Keith Urban in 2006.
“I’ve done all the stuff you could possibly do to give a shot to get pregnant.
So the way it just happened with Sunday was like, ‘What?’
The percentages were so low.
It is the miracle in my life.”
We would have had kids five, six years ago if it had happened.
But my gosh, it’s been a process!"
In a separate interview withSELF Magazine,Teigen explainedhow bewildering and difficult her journey had been.
“I thought, people get pregnant by accident all the time!
How does this happen?”
Who knows what will work?"
So once my focus became the baby and not the pregnancy, it was a very easy decision."
Their decision to pursue surrogacy paid off.
In 2011, Banks and her husband welcomed son Felix into the world.
Shields got pregnant during the first round of treatment, but she miscarried after three months.
“We were crushed,” she said.
Over the next eight months, she and Henchy underwent six more rounds of IVF.
But you’ve got the option to’t ensure success unless you’re God and you’re not.
Neither are the doctors.
“There are certain experiences that almost every woman looks forward to as a rite of passage.
However, once Jackman and Furness decided to pursue adoption, everything changed.
“I think you go through almost every motion,” said Robinson.
“I know my husband felt guilty.
I felt guilty.”
“Thank God for science,” Robinson added.
“I felt so embarrassed that I couldn’t have a biological child,” Vardalos said.
Their daughter, Ilaria, is now the light of their lives.
It was a lot of shots, a lot of false pregnancies, and a lot of tears.”
Jeffrey is “our little miracle,” says Shepherd.
Cox and her then-husband, David Arquette, turned to IVF, which Arquette described as “nerve-racking.”
Cox’s IVF treatments wound up doing the trick, though the couple welcomed Coco in 2004.
“We tried a bunch of things,” Fallon said.
“Anyone who’s tried will know, it’s just awful…It’s just really depressing.
It’s hard on everybody.”
It’s important for people struggling with infertility to know they’re not alone, Fallon added.
“If there’s anyone out there who is trying and losing hope…just hang in there.
