How long did you try for kids before considering adoption? My husband has suggested we start exploring but I’m kind of scared to be honest and I feel like I so badly want the experience of being pregnant

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Surrogacy is another option, we’re looking at both

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Yes I think you can.

I think it all depends on why you are unable to conceive/ carry a child. I am 40 now. We have been trying for almost 3 years. We will exhaust all of our options prior to considering adoption. I’m guessing in another year or two we will look into adoption. I think I would consider embryo adoption now over regular adoption purely due to cost and having the pregnancy experience.

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Do you have frozen eggs or embryos?

Almost 4 years, 5 failed IUIs, 5 egg retrievals, 8 failed transfers, 2 miscarriages, 5 chemicals. That’s what it took for us to start looking at surrogacy. I don’t know that we’ll explore the adoption path, I think for us, surrogacy is the end of the line.

I understand the feeling. I was able to carry my son full term (he was an IUI baby) and it took a long time to start to accept that I might never have that experience again. I think my husband came to the surrogacy conclusion a lot sooner than I did but i kept pushing IVF over and over, despite knowing it would fail and wreck my body because I just couldn’t stand the idea that another woman would carry my child.

See if donor egg is an option too depending on what the fertility cause is. May be cheaper than adoption.

We tried for 8 years. 3 IUIs and one failed IVF. I actually would have considered adoption sooner but the adoption process seemed so daunting. I also really wanted the experience of being pregnant but that feeling has completely passed for me now but I totally get it! Fast forward to now, our son is 2 and we adopted him as a newborn. Gearing up to go through the process again.

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