A Light in Our Darkest Corner: Our Journey to Parenthood
Our path to building a family has been a long, quiet storm of heartbreak and hope. Over the last few years, we have experienced the devastating pain of two miscarriages, one from ectopic pregnancy and second from IVF failure (terrifying and heartbreaking). Each loss took a piece of our hearts, but we remained determined to keep trying.
When we finally turned to IVF, we poured all our remaining hope—and our life savings—into the process. Walking away from a failed IVF cycle was a different kind of grief. It wasn’t just emotional; it was financially draining.
Like many families, our financial responsibilities don’t begin and end with just the two of us; we also provide essential financial support to our wider family. Balancing the overwhelming costs of fertility treatments with our commitments to the people we love left us in a position where another self-funded IVF cycle was simply impossible. We felt completely stuck, emotionally exhausted, and financially depleted. We knew our hearts could keep going, but our savings account could not.
That is exactly where the Fertility Friends Foundation stepped into our story.
Receiving the news that we were selected as Spring 2026 grant recipients felt like a heavy weight being lifted off our shoulders. This grant is so much more than financial aid to us—it is a lifeline, a renewed sense of hope, and the open door we thought had been closed for good. It bridges the gap between the family we dream of and the financial reality we were facing.
To anyone out there navigating the exhausting, expensive, and often lonely road of infertility: please know you are not alone. There is community, there is understanding, and thanks to organizations like this, there is hope even when you think you’ve run out of options.
We are incredibly grateful to the Foundation for believing in our dream and giving us the chance to try again.
— Tanjila & Oveshkhan
These grant recipients benefited from Fertility Friends Foundation’s IVF Cycle Program, which combines a $5,000 FFF fertility grant with additional in-kind IVF services generously provided by one of our partner clinics.