Infertility — the inability to get pregnant despite trying for at least a year — can be frustrating, heartbreaking, and expensive to deal with when you're trying to have children.
To help people understand what it's like to experience it, we recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to share pictures of what navigating infertility is really like.
Here are some pictures that they shared — but keep in mind that everyone's journey is personal and unique, so these are by no means universal experiences of infertility.
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