It might very well be placebo but it helped me deeply and I can see why women that want to give it their all would try it (and that's why I don't begrudge her counting those jabs).
If it helps anyone - my first cycle was without acupuncture and I barely got 4 eggs out of it. I underwent acupuncture for 3 months before my second cycle and that got me 12 eggs.
When each cycle costs about 30k USD, a lot of women with low amh, egg quality or ovarian reserve would try anything to help tweak the odds!
Working in fraud prevention and I would love to know how to detect a botnet system, beyond the usual velocity checks. A decade of working in this space and I haven't found a reliable, fail-safe way to do this. Genuinely interested to know if there's a suggestion.
That's okay, different people can like different things :)
As for myself, I liked reading about some bits of Chinese history that I was not very familiar with, and it also provides a really good foundation for the reason behind the lead character's far-reaching actions. I also do think the best parts of the story do come later in books 2 and 3 - I like the larger-than-life ideas and the imperfect characters.
This was the year I got my attention under enough control to be able to read voraciously again like I used to in my childhood :)
* I'll always bring up The Three-body problem because I re-read it every year
* Piranesi because of it's fantastical story-telling
* The Covenant of Water - because it's a fantastic medical drama and a sweeping story spanning generations
* Victory City - Salamn Rushdie's latest novel which is surprisingly readable
* The Enchanted Forest/Kaikeyi/Palace of Illusions - because they cover the major Indian epics from the lens of the women characters (think Circe with an Indian background)
* Trust - The same story told from different viewpoints with a setting in the early NY financial world, which makes it extra interesting
I notice that I do tend to favour books with an Indian background because of my nostalgia for it as I live in a foreign land. Maybe I'll branch out more next year!
When each cycle costs about 30k USD, a lot of women with low amh, egg quality or ovarian reserve would try anything to help tweak the odds!