lovelylulu
Ideal_Rock
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- Jul 6, 2005
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Thanks festy and others for sharing your thoughts/perspectives on the possibility of what you might or might not want to do going forward.
I really don''t think that people have a right to be offended by anyone else''s choice. The decision to have or not to have children is so personal. Also, although people may think "oh, i would never do such and such . . ." I don''t think someone honestly knows what they will do until they are sitting in that situation, faced with choices that have until then have been mere hypotheticals.
As for me, the lines are really blurry with regard to potential "interventions." I don''t think I would be opposed to taking clomid. However, I don''t have any problems ovulating, so the issue is moot. At this point, I do not want to have anything to do with IVF and for many of the same reasons that Festy articulated. I''m not ethically opposed to the process, just personally don''t think that I could go through it. But, for my husband and I, our options for making a family don''t end there as we are open to adoption.
For us, we have to figure out how much longer we continue to TTC and when do we start seriously considering initiating any adoption process. Some days, I feel like I want to give our bodies a chance for many more months to come, while on other days, I just want our family.
What I really have to do is get myself together and get that HSG - the final IF *diagnostic* - because we need more information in order to move forward. I''ve been stalling for the last few cycles, because I keep (wishfully) thinking that I will just get pregnant one of these times and because I''m nearly positive that the HSG will turn up nothing - which is not reassuring at this point.
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I really don''t think that people have a right to be offended by anyone else''s choice. The decision to have or not to have children is so personal. Also, although people may think "oh, i would never do such and such . . ." I don''t think someone honestly knows what they will do until they are sitting in that situation, faced with choices that have until then have been mere hypotheticals.
As for me, the lines are really blurry with regard to potential "interventions." I don''t think I would be opposed to taking clomid. However, I don''t have any problems ovulating, so the issue is moot. At this point, I do not want to have anything to do with IVF and for many of the same reasons that Festy articulated. I''m not ethically opposed to the process, just personally don''t think that I could go through it. But, for my husband and I, our options for making a family don''t end there as we are open to adoption.
For us, we have to figure out how much longer we continue to TTC and when do we start seriously considering initiating any adoption process. Some days, I feel like I want to give our bodies a chance for many more months to come, while on other days, I just want our family.
What I really have to do is get myself together and get that HSG - the final IF *diagnostic* - because we need more information in order to move forward. I''ve been stalling for the last few cycles, because I keep (wishfully) thinking that I will just get pregnant one of these times and because I''m nearly positive that the HSG will turn up nothing - which is not reassuring at this point.
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