Friday, April 18, 2008

No news

funny pictures

Sometimes no news is good news, but right now no news is just annoying. I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much or get too attached to the whole adoption of this baby right now. I'm trying to stay neutral. If it happens then wonderful, but if it doesn't then it wasn't meant to be. I do hope this child finds a loving home even if it's not with us. But I can't put all my eggs in one basket. I can't take another loss. We're going to continue our baby making journey the same as planned. If this cycle is a bust then we will move on to more testing and procedures. Either way we will keep moving on until we become parents again.

I've been watching a show called Baby Lab for the past 2 days. The show is set in St. Louis, MO at the clinic of one of the top IVF specialists in the world. Each episode follows several couples over the course of a year while the attempt to become parents through IVF, in vitro-fertilization. It starts with the injections to stimulate the woman's ovaries and make her ovulate through the egg retrieval and egg transfer. It even shows the lab work when they take a single sperm and inject it into an egg. It's amazing to see the beginnings of life through a microscope. I know several ladies who have done IVF, and I know it's a hard process. But to actually see the process brings it to a new level for me. I pray that we don't have to go to that point because it's a very expensive gamble. But I won't say that I wouldn't do it. We're willing to do what it takes to make our dreams come true again.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

And your dreams are going to come true!

Mindy

niobe said...

Or you could always move to my state, where health insurance plans are required to cover infertility treatments, including IVF.

I know what you mean about not wanting to put all your eggs in one basket. I'm terrified to hope too much, because I don't want to be crushed again.

Patty said...

IL insurance covers IVF, too. ;) And it gets nice and hot in the summer! ;)

Love you, sweet girl.

Maddie's Mom said...

Patty, now you sound like my SIL. They live in IL and are always trying to get us to move there. I do need to move to a real state that covers something other than alligator attacks.