Appleisle, the comparison between ttc without help (and failing, failing, failing every month) and ttc with assistance is really hard to make. TTC without help starts to feel kind of pointless, when the chances of success are so tiny, whereas AC gave us real, genuine hope again, which was much easier to face. The extra investment of time, money, pain, means that the emotions of going through AC are massive, but for us, who also had MFI only, are so, so worth it - we had a successful first cycle, DS is 10 months old and we are now looking at ttc #2.

It would have been 10 times harder without the support of the girls on the AC and LTTTC threads.