After two months of a very drawn out and expensive process the wife and I got lucky on the first try and now have a baby hopefully on the way.
Rough on the wife as it involves multiple daily injections administered by myself.
Rough on the pocketbook as it ran about $15K.
But it’s worth it. A new Honda Civic that’ll last 8 years or a permanent member of the family?
Any questions?
Congrats! My sister just had a little boy after her first round of IVF. We made the choice to adopt rather than go the IVF route.
I’m with ya brother!
GrizzCub was conceived in similar fashion.
Didja have to administer injections to her? Subcutaneous or intramuscular?
I don’t have a question; I just wanted to wish you two good luck! Congratulations!
Congratulations! I’m glad to hear your good news!
We could only come up with the money once, and it did not succeed. We ended up deciding to remain childless.
LOTS of shots. SubQ and IM. All administered by myself. For two people that hate needles we adapted fairly quickly. She had to learn to take em’ and I had to learn to give em’. She still gets a daily shot of Progesterone in oil with a 1.5" needle to her back side.
Base model or LE?
Congrats on the addition!
Hope everything turns out great and the Mrs. has a quick and uneventful delivery.
So are you gonna tell the kid how he/she was conceived?
Good luck with everything.
What was the basic cause of the infertility?
Your wife went through in vitro fertilization? How’d you fit her in the dish?
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Are daily injections required by everyone who goes through invitro? I hadn’t heard that part
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And what was the root of the infertility?
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Did she complain about pain in the process? I only recently heard that artificial insemination (which is different) was EXTREMELY painful. I want to be prepared for every step…
And ofcourse, congrats.
- I believe they are fairly common. They basically try to control the entire ovulating process with drugs. There are two shots given for a couple weeks prior to the retrieval. They are to suppress the ovulation from occuring. Then there is one heavy injection (HCG) which makes you ovulate within 4 days so they can time the retrival. Lastly, after they tranfer of the embryo back to the uterus she gets daily shots of progesterone which is a hormone that reminds the body that it’s pregnant.
- She was releasing eggs inconsistantly and my swimmers didn’t penetrate eggs like they were supposed to. They actually did a test where they used my swimmers to see if they could fertilize hamster eggs. Because this was a problem, once they extracted the eggs from here they physically injected the swimmers into the eggs.
- Actually, insemination is part of the process and she said it’s not painful at all. Maybe just a little cramping but no different than seeing your OBGYN for a checkup. The retrieval process she was knocked out for and felt a little yucky afterwards.
The most painful part was a test done months previously where they injected some sort of dye into the fallopian tubes and tracked it to make sure they were blocked. I guess that painful for everyone.
She doesn’t mind the injections too much but they get really sore because they’re injected into a muscle and she doesn’t get a break from them.
Eventually yes. Kids find out where babies come from when they’re about 12? 13?
Maybe when the kids like 16 they can know, or if they ever ask.
Are fertility treatments tax-deductible as a medical cost?
From what i’ve found on-line the answer would be “yes”. But it is like any other medical expense: only the amount above and beyond 7.5% of your annual income that you have paid out-of-pocket is tax deductible.
So if you and your spouses annual salary was $80,000 and you paid $15K of your own money for the procedure, you could tax deduct about $9K.
That was not true in my case. It’s just like a typical exam.