I am often asked what I will do if I'm never able to have children. When I am asked this, it's all I can do to not fall completely apart. Probably because I cannot imagine my life without children.
I mean, I usually pull myself together enought to say something like, I can't imagine my life without children and we will keep trying until we know in our hearts that it's time to stop trying.
As most of you know, we cannot afford IUI, IVF or adoption. So we just TTC with Follistim and an HCG trigger shot. We hope to be able to afford this for at least three more months. Then we will probably continut TTC naturally until we feel that my age is becoming too much of a problem/risk. I didn't want to be this old of a mother anyway, but we have to strongly consider my age in the next year or so.
Again, this is where I hope you can learn from me. We started TTC when I was
35, I am now
41, we NEVER imagined it would go on this long. We
SO wish we'd gotten aggressive earlier. We are
SO sorry we listened when we were told it was "unexplained infertility." I really don't believe there is any such thing. I think that is a completely lazy diagnosis and if you've been told that is what you "have,"
PLEASE seek help from another doctor.
I just wondered how those of you who do not yet have children handle it when you are asked this.
Thanks for you time and consideration.
Love,
Julie