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Professionally active women having committed to an in vitro fertilisation (IVF) protocol due to conjugal sterility are inevitably confronted by the need to give some form of expression to this very private experience within their professional environments that, a priori, are hardly conducive to such openness. Although the women concerned would have preferred to maintain discretion and keep a certain distance from their colleagues in the matter of their sterility, they necessarily become the object of attention. But the dilemma of striving to sustain their professional commitment on the one hand while also doing their best to respect the severe constraints of a medical protocol forces them to choose selectively what they are willing to reveal as to their condition. The author conducted a sociological survey via semi-directive interviews to show the various scenarios and narratives these women use, and the difficulties they encounter in having a baby in a world of work informed by the rational value system based on management and performance.