IVF Comic #3: Feels Like We Only Go Backwards

A Little Backstory + The Start of Stim Shots

Note: This is #3 in my series, IVF Comics, where I’m making comics to process and share my experience with infertility + IVF.

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Things are really moving along now! The first month was lots of waiting and prepping and worrying, but we’ve officially starting our stim shots and I’ll be driving to ultrasounds every few days for the next week or so. I’ll be making another comic shortly on all that.

Things are weird, but now that the process has really begun, I feel much less anxious. More excited and hopeful. Also grateful that Declan has agreed to take on mixing and preparing all my shots. I mean, I am the one that has to get poked a hundred times and he is the one with a chemistry-related degree, so it just makes sense, but still, I am very thankful for him. <3

Here’s the song that inspired the title of this week’s comic, Feels Like We Only Go Backwards by Tame Impala. I like the pattern of choosing songs as a thread to tie together this series!

Thanks for reading!

<3,
Christine

P.S. I’ve loved seeing everyone’s art in MightCouldDrawToday so far this month! As a reminder, this is our thread for the entire month of May, so you can keep posting your art there. We're now in Week 2: Monsters, but if you missed Week 1: Characters, you can still post that entry whenever you like, or you can skip it and just draw Monsters with us. There are no rules, no grades, and no scores—just maybe-possibly-might-could-drawing-today! ❤️