IVF to tell or not to tell?

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I’m just wondering about people that have undergone IVF to have their baby, (currently going through it myself) did you tell people after the birth that it was IVF? On one side I don’t want that to be the focus of my child’s origin story or my birth announcement/pregancy but on the other hand I want to be open as I struggled so much with deciding whether to go for IVF because very few people talked about it or share their infertility journeys and I want to help others and normalise infertility more. Would love others opinions on this

True! Also might stop people making stupid comments that offend ! (Even though they don’t mean to obviously!)

Our baby was conceived naturally after us doing IVF. Everyone has assumed LO is an IVF baby, which wasn’t the case, but I don’t suppose it’s a big deal and we didn’t announce it.

(donor eggs or sperm is different, but not the case for every assisted conception story)

I think there can be a lot of perceived shame within needing assisted conception (either from self, society or financial reasons) and it would be nice to try and remove these views. It doesn’t happen overnight, so I think a bit of change at a time is would be good to challenge this