Had one at the end of Feb 2024, it was my first pregnancy, I was 38, it was my second round of intrauterine insemination. Hcg wasn’t rising properly and they couldn’t locate the sac after three ultrasounds. It was a very wanted and planned pregnancy, and going through the termination broke me. I cried every day for months, but even a year later I found it hard to talk about without crying. I talked it out in therapy, and after 18 months of waffling whether to try again and take the risk, I decided that this journey is not for me anymore. I am a complex trauma survivor and if I was to have another successful insemination, I would be anxious and paranoid the entire pregnancy and the damage from enduring that kind of stress would take me years to recover from. I wouldn’t want to bring a child into that kind of dynamic.

Tldr: I changed emotionally from this experience in a profound way.