Friday, January 20, 2006
First off~ only 11 days until my "baby" turns 15 yrs old!!! YOWZA!! We now find ourselves talking about buying cars, dating and teenage partying....I am really hoping some of my past behaviors do not come back to bite me in the ASS!! We are very open and honest with my girl and hoping that she chooses to make wiser decisions than either Jeff or I did!! Present alert~ not very good around here....I have a few ideas but will have to see how they pan out.
On the TTC front~ Jeff and I attended a wonderful seminar last night to learn more about IVF with donor eggs (they also talked about donor sperm options and gestational host options)...we really liked what we heard and even got ourselves all worked up about going through with it. It seems there is a wait for anonymous donors and also there are some options that we need to discuss. 1) being they offer "shared" cycles for about 12,500....that is where 2 couples share one donors eggs, there for splitting the cost. But because stimming is not always predictible, they ask for one party to be "primary" and one party to be "secondary"...so that in the case that only 7-9 eggs are retrieved. the "primary" would get all of the eggs and pay the full price of $20k for the cycle. They prefer to have at least 5 eggs for each donor to ensure a better success rate. 2) option would be to pay the $20k for the cycle and not share with anyone. 3) is to bring in your own donor for about $14k......So we will be discussing all of these options. We are hoping to have a "plan" in place before my birthday in April....that is our goal! We should know more about our finances by then and be able to make some decisions! One thing we did decide is that we want to try to do this before heading down the adoption route....as of now anyways!
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