After our failed fertility trial last fall Kim and I just basically left the wound in the air and kind of distracted ourselves with the holidays. Once the new year had begun, it came to decision time.
Do we do it again? By it I mean IVF and by again I mean almost starting from scratch. We had no frozen embryos to try first, only experience and a significant debt.
Or do we give up on getting pregnant and look into the adoption route.
What it came down to in the end, as do most of life's major decisions, was money. Money money money. It may not buy happiness but it sure as hell doesn't hurt!
Basically the math is simple:
- If we try IVF again and it works, the cost is about $10,000.
- If we try adoption, it costs about $30,000.
- But if we try IVF and it fails, then go to adoption we are looking at a $40,000 price tag.
Without any guarantees about IVF we just can't justify putting ourselves in that kind of hole any further.
So we closed the book on IVF for the time being and booked an appointment with an adoption professional this Monday morning for an initial consultation.
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