Choosing IVF

Choosing to do IVF is not an easy choice.  But also it is easy because we wanted a baby and that's what it came down to doing.

There are so many factors with infertility, most of them unknown.  That's the hardest part.  There are all sorts of simple options to "fix" problems but most of the time doctors are just guessing as to what will help.  You can spend years trying all the simple stuff that's relatively cheap and that's what most people do.  We tried some medications but that's about it.  Because when I say relatively cheap I mean a few hundred to a few thousand dollars an option.  All of those add up to a lot of time, a lot of emotions, and eventually a lot of money.

None of the doctors could give us a good prognosis for any of the "simple" options so we decided not to pour our resources (emotional, physical, and financial) into them.

I was really blessed to be introduced to the concept of IVF back in 2010 when a church leader went through the process.  Then a close family member did IVF recently and I learned even more about the process.

We first went to a fertility clinic at the beginning of 2017.  The cost for IVF is somewhere around $12,00-$15,000 plus the cost of medications, which they estimate to be $4,000-$6,000.  Woof.  Who has that kind of money?!

We started saving but didn't have a solid plan of what we wanted to do or a timeline.  We just knew it would work itself out eventually!