Friends assumed I would keep going, but after three rounds of IVF I knew I’d had enough

‘My life became reduced to waiting. Waiting until 8pm to inject myself with more hormones, waiting for another blood test.’ Photograph: Maskot/Getty Images

We like to tell children to not give up, that quitting is not an option.

I remember, as a child, being reminded by probably well-meaning teachers that there is no such word as “can’t”.