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We did IVF and have a wonderful little boy. Would do it again to have our kid, but my goodness, the expense was overwhelming. We had to go into a non-trivial am
by sircastor 4y ago
We did IVF and have a wonderful little boy. Would do it again to have our kid, but my goodness, the expense was overwhelming. We had to go into a non-trivial amount of debt to do IVF and I don’t know how anyone makes it work (short of what we did) we tried for 8 years to conceive naturally.
Tangentially, we spent some time looking at adoption and the total cost going through an agency I think would’ve been about the same.
- Aeolun 4y agoAdoption is crazy expensive, and a super hard process compared to, you know, just popping one out yourself. I sort of understand why, but I still think it’s a bit counterproductive.
- sircastor 4y agoYes. Adoption is in this strange place of being something that everyone understands the pitfalls of government regulation (custody of a human) but by necessity it must be regulated. Services have filled the space by charging for everything and they have a captive market that has no other choice. The problem is exasperated by the presence of potential adopters who have biases related to age or race of children.