TTC timing or IVF
Hey ladies
I’m doing a postdoc research grant at the moment, and know we want kids. I’ve been cycle tracking, taking supplements, eating healthily, etc. but I have to travel a lot for work. This travel is temporary, because I have this research contract but they do offer maternity leave.
Problem is, we’ve been like this for about a year, where my ovulation window is often when I’m away on research, so we can’t try for that window. I’m tempted to ask my doctor if we can do IVF or IUI purely so I can know when I’m ovulating, we know it’s a legitimate try.
How did you navigate TTC with conferences, workshops etc interfering with your ovulation window? I’ve checked online which obviously just says try in that window, but for academia it doesn’t exactly work like that, and I can’t exactly stop this temporary research contract just to try to conceive which could take months anyway.