More clarity. Practical support. A little room to breathe.
IVF can bring a lot into your life at once: unfamiliar acronyms, appointments, decisions, and feelings that don’t always fit neatly into a conversation with your care team.
Where do you begin? What should you ask? And how do you make space for yourself in the middle of it all?
The IVF Warrior Starter Pack is a compassionate, approachable guide to help you understand the basics, prepare for conversations with your care team, and think through the emotional and everyday support you need.
Created by Alexandra Hamrick—fertility doula, IVF mom, and Your Infertility Doula—this 20-page digital guide brings together introductory IVF education, reflection worksheets, conversation prompts, and practical comfort ideas in one place.
“This isn’t just a guide. It’s a hand to hold, from someone who’s been there.”
Inside your starter pack
Understand the IVF process
Get an overview of the stages from stimulation and egg retrieval through embryo development, transfer, and the wait for results. Find explanations of common acronyms and the different people on your care team, so you have a starting point for understanding what comes next.
Get an overview of the stages from stimulation and egg retrieval through embryo development, transfer, and the wait for results. Find explanations of common acronyms and the different people on your care team, so you have a starting point for understanding what comes next.
Prepare for conversations about genetic testing
Explore common PGT terminology and bring 10 questions to your clinic about testing options, results, timing, costs, and the considerations that matter in your individual situation.
Explore common PGT terminology and bring 10 questions to your clinic about testing options, results, timing, costs, and the considerations that matter in your individual situation.
Make space for the emotional side of IVF
Find acknowledgment of the hope, fear, frustration, gratitude, and overwhelm that can exist together. Guided prompts invite you to reflect on stress and grief without judging yourself for what you feel.
Find acknowledgment of the hope, fear, frustration, gratitude, and overwhelm that can exist together. Guided prompts invite you to reflect on stress and grief without judging yourself for what you feel.
“What is one small thing I can let go of today to create more space for calm and clarity during this cycle?”
Set boundaries that support you
Use reflection pages to consider what you want to share, whom you want to tell, and how to protect your energy. Identify the kinds of support that feel helpful to you.
Use reflection pages to consider what you want to share, whom you want to tell, and how to protect your energy. Identify the kinds of support that feel helpful to you.
Help your partner and support people show up
Start meaningful conversations about different coping styles, sharing responsibilities, and staying connected. A support-network worksheet helps you identify whom you can turn to for practical help, a listening ear, or a welcome distraction.
Start meaningful conversations about different coping styles, sharing responsibilities, and staying connected. A support-network worksheet helps you identify whom you can turn to for practical help, a listening ear, or a welcome distraction.
Create your own sources of comfort
Explore a comfort-kit checklist and mind-and-body support ideas to personalize alongside your care team’s guidance.
Explore a comfort-kit checklist and mind-and-body support ideas to personalize alongside your care team’s guidance.
A starting point you can return to
This kit is especially suited to people preparing for IVF or navigating their first cycle who want an introduction that makes room for both the practical details and the person going through them.
Read it from beginning to end, bring the questions to an appointment, or return to a reflection page when you need a moment to check in with yourself. Share the partner section with someone who wants to help but isn’t sure how.
You don’t need to arrive feeling brave, organized, or endlessly positive.
“IVF is not an easy road, and there is no perfect way to navigate it.”
Download the IVF Warrior Starter Pack and take your next step with information, reflection tools, and encouragement close at hand.
Includes a 20-page PDF digital download. This educational, non-clinical resource complements your fertility care team’s individualized guidance.
Price
$27
This package includes
✨ IVF timeline & process overview (no more Googling!)
✨ IVF terms + acronyms cheat sheet
✨ Emotional support tools — journal prompts, affirmations, boundaries
✨ Comfort kit checklist (my personal faves)
✨ Partner support & conversation prompts
✨ Financial prep tips & tools
✨ Mind-body wellness ideas
✨ My personal resource + product favorites
✨ IVF terms + acronyms cheat sheet
✨ Emotional support tools — journal prompts, affirmations, boundaries
✨ Comfort kit checklist (my personal faves)
✨ Partner support & conversation prompts
✨ Financial prep tips & tools
✨ Mind-body wellness ideas
✨ My personal resource + product favorites