{"id":8983,"date":"2026-10-22T11:22:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/?p=8983"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:50:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:50:27","slug":"invisible-ivf-the-empty-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/es_es\/invisible-ivf-the-empty-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Invisible IVF &#8211; The Empty Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8983\" class=\"elementor elementor-8983\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f738a3 e-con-full main-content e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4f738a3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-575e023 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"575e023\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9414b6a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"9414b6a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Place You Keep Saving For Someone Who Isn't Here Yet\u200b<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d324119 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d324119\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>During infertility and IVF, one of the hardest things can be watching life move forward around you, while you feel like your life is stuck on pause.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For us, that feeling can be summed up by an empty chair.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first, it\u2019s just an empty chair.&nbsp;<\/span>But it\u2019s not just any empty chair.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Somewhere along the way, you start imagining who might sit there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At breakfast. At Christmas. In family photos. On summer holidays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And suddenly, it isn\u2019t just a chair anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During our IVF journeys, we watched our friends\u2019 families grow &#8211; from zero to one, one to two, and even three.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Babies arrived. First birthdays came around. Then second birthdays came around too. We were happy for them, but there was often another feeling sitting alongside it:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When will it be our turn?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life kept moving. Another treatment. Another year. More plans made for the future, while quietly hoping that next time, there might be someone else to include in them.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f9f8a1a elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f9f8a1a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-2150426694acronyms-toolkit-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-7611\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-2150426694acronyms-toolkit-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-2150426694acronyms-toolkit-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-2150426694acronyms-toolkit-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-2150426694acronyms-toolkit-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-2150426694acronyms-toolkit-scaled.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-2150426694acronyms-toolkit-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-2150426694acronyms-toolkit-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-2150426694acronyms-toolkit-64x43.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-af2ae85 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"af2ae85\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6732c2e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6732c2e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>IVF has a strange way of making you measure time differently.<\/p><p>Not just in months and years, but in cycles, transfers, birthdays and Christmases you once thought would look different.<\/p><p>Season after season passed.<\/p><p>And somehow, the chair was still empty.<\/p><p>The strange thing is that nobody else can see it.<\/p><p>To everyone else, it\u2019s simply another seat at the table.<\/p><p>But to you, it holds a child you\u2019ve already pictured. A place you\u2019ve quietly been saving. A future you\u2019ve been carrying in your heart for much longer than anyone realises.<\/p><p>That\u2019s the invisible side of IVF.<\/p><p>Not just the treatment itself, but the space it quietly occupies in your heart.<\/p><p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p><p><i>Invisible IVF is our series about the parts of fertility treatment that often go unseen \u2014 the thoughts, losses, hopes and small moments you carry quietly while life around you carries on as normal.<\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-74ff45f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"74ff45f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e5663b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3e5663b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9a0b2a9 elementor-cta--skin-classic elementor-animated-content elementor-bg-transform elementor-bg-transform-zoom-in elementor-widget elementor-widget-call-to-action\" data-id=\"9a0b2a9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"call-to-action.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta__bg-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta__bg elementor-bg\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/iStock-1378013495-mindfulness-1-1024x676.jpg);\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Retrato en primer plano del rostro de una mujer con los ojos cerrados. Concepto de sentimientos y sensaciones. Personas femeninas en meditaci\u00f3n o actividad de mindfulness. Soledad y equilibrio de la vida interior.\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta__bg-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-cta__title elementor-cta__content-item elementor-content-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tExplora nuestro Centro de Soporte\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta__description elementor-cta__content-item elementor-content-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>La FIV puede dificultar el aquietamiento de tu mente. Esta p\u00e1gina re\u00fane sencillas herramientas de respiraci\u00f3n, r\u00e1pidos momentos de atenci\u00f3n plena y meditaciones guiadas que hemos creado.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-cta__button-wrapper elementor-cta__content-item elementor-content-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-cta__button elementor-button elementor-size-\" href=\"https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/es_es\/centro-de-soporte\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\texplorar la p\u00e1gina\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Un ciclo de transferencia de embriones congelados (FET) fallido puede sentirse como un golpe devastador. Despu\u00e9s de meses de preparaci\u00f3n, altibajos emocionales y superar la espera de dos semanas, la decepci\u00f3n de ver esa prueba de embarazo negativa puede ser abrumadora.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"personal-stories-categories":[],"class_list":["post-8983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invisible-ivf"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/es_es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/es_es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/es_es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/es_es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/es_es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8983"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/es_es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9013,"href":"https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/es_es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983\/revisions\/9013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/es_es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/es_es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/es_es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/es_es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8983"},{"taxonomy":"personal-stories-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myivfbuddy.com\/es_es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personal-stories-categories?post=8983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}