Seeing a stroller on the street is hard, and seeing a woman with a pregnant belly is hard. In fact, being around parents who have kids is hard. Because, it will be a constant reminder to you of the fact that you can’t conceive yet.

Every month that you’re still not pregnant feels like you’ve failed. With each passing month, your options become more limited and after a certain period of time, many women feel like they’ll never be able to conceive.

Most people think it’s only older couples (read: over 38-year-old) who can’t conceive but infertility doesn’t just affect “geriatric” people. Many young couples in their 20s and 30s are also affected by it.

Making babies is expensive! Each round of hormone treatments costs upwards of $1,000 and if you go down the IVF route, it’s even more expensive – sometimes reaching the hundreds of thousands. While the end result (a baby!) is worth it, it’s still an expensive pill to swallow.

Getting pumped with hormones while trying to conceived will affect you in more ways than you think. Your emotions will go into overdrive and your physical appearance may change too (extra weight down the middle? Yeah, no thanks). Also, women can look and feel pregnant as a result of hormones and not be pregnant. It’s a cruel joke.

A week can seem like a month, a month can seem like a year, and a year can seem like a lifetime when you’re trying to get knocked up. Soon, doctor’s appointments, blood work results, and injections will become a normal and all-consuming part of your everyday life.

Women going through infertility will go to great, strange lengths to make a baby. If they hear, “X will help you get pregnant,” they’ll do it. Ayurvedic herbal drops that taste horrible? Check. Healing crystals that will cleanse your womb? Check. When women start to believe it may never happen, they do crazy things.

When you’re experiencing infertility, every single post will seem to be about gender reveals, baby announcements or adorable photos of young parents and their babies laughing in the sunshine. It can become too much for many women to bear so changing your social media habits is inevitable.