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Originally Posted by 33girl
I'm hoping that's more the case and that this really is something all IVF couples plan for and think about. The way it was put in the original post was more like the couples were all "We got 20 fertilized kids! Oopsie poo! Who knew? Golly whiz, we're gonna need a bigger house."
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You have to plan for it and you have to think about it as part of the process, whether you want to or not. At my clinic we had to fill out forms saying whether we wanted to freeze embryos or not, and if we chose to freeze, we had to decide what would happen if one of us dies or if we get a divorce. Plus we had to acknowledge the cost of storage. This was required before i popped a single pill or stuck myself with a single shot. Plus, as you can see from my example, it's pretty rare to have a lot of frozen embryos. It does happen, but not often.
No one just does IVF like it's no big deal. It's huge. It's a shit ton of drugs, a surgical procedure, and a shit ton of money. I could have bought a nice car for what we spent on infertility treatments, with no guarantee of success. There's no such thing as a sentiment that boils down to "golly whiz" when it comes to procedures of this magnitude.
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