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Old 09-23-2007, 10:09 AM
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We have been trying for over two years. I am going to do clomid for 3 or 4 more months. If that fails we are going to do one iui in jan or feb. If that fails we are going to start fosterparent classes and foster to adopt. Either way its exciting! I just cant wait to hear a child laughing in my home!


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Old 01-27-2008, 05:06 PM
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after 3 years of TTC we adopted our little girl...and now after having her home 2.5 years we decided to ttc again..............
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TTC 8 years!!!!
2000-2003 - TOO many procedures- Failed
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2004 Adopted our DD from Guatemala.
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2007 New IF Specialist
10/05/07 - LAP Procedure
DX: endo stage I, tilted uterus!

10/24/07 - Follustism 75 iu W/IUI
38.5 mil spermies 84% mobility
11/16 - BFP ! Beta 17.2
Ended in chemical pregnancy.


1/16/08 - Follistim W/IUI
01/25 IUI /Sperm 38.9 Million with 80% pre and 90% post
02/08- BFN!

1st IVF - ER/ET happening in September!
6/23 Started Royal Jelly & Prenatal Vits
06/30 cd1
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Old 01-27-2008, 07:30 PM
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how long before adopting

We tried for almost two years. Six months into trying we found out that IVF/ICSI was our only hope we had two unsuccessful cyles and decided to stop and adopt. Our oldest son is 8 and our youngest is 18 months, both adopted from Kazakhstan.
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Old 01-27-2008, 08:27 PM
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We decided to adopt after 3 years of trying for our second child. It has been a rollercoast of a ride. I would have never have thought we would have been here three years ago but I am happy with where I am.
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Beautiful daughter born 4-23-03
TTC since Feb 2005 - didn't ovulate
Started treatment Aug 2006
6 rounds of clomid
tubes are open
bloodwork is good
3 rounds of femara/follistim/HCG
2 IUIs
6 months of acupuncture
Moving on to infant domestic adoption!

Officially waiting to be matched!! -- June '08
Our portfolio has been shown 9 times since June 2008.
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Old 01-27-2008, 09:59 PM
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sorry this is so long..but we've been BUSY!!!

We've been married for 9 years and 4 months now.

We were married 9/1998 and immediately began TTC
By 8/2000 we decided to start clomid with a fertility DR. as well as start the paperwork for fostering/adopting. But we moved out of state ...lost our insurance for a time and couldn't start fostering until we got settled in a home.

My husband joined the Air Force and by 12/2001 we had just settled in to our first duty station. We immediately started the process of becoming licensed to foster/adopt with our main hope/goal of being placed with a child available for adoption or coming available. Around 9/2002 we also began seeing a womans health nurse on base and using clomid each month and plotting temperatures.

By 4/2003 we had to be sent over to a fertiltiy Dr. for higher doses of clomid and u/s montioring. By 9/2003 we had exhausted all of our fertility options at that time that was covered by our insurance. Any further treatments would be sompletely out of our pocket and thousands of dollars. We were also completely devestated that in all that time of fostering none of our kids had come up for adoption (even those we were TOLD were going to be ours). We decided to move on to adopting through our church adoption agency.

But right as we began the paperwork we got the call about our oldest son (who was almost 4 at the time and legally free for adoption through DHS). We spoke with the LDS adoption people and decided to put our adoption plans on hold with them (for a newborn baby girl) until after we had finalized our sons adoption.

In 3/2004 we got our youngest daughter to foster as a newborn(placed for adoption at birth but was legal risk). The same week we finalized our sons adoption the adoption worker told us that they had chosen us to be the adoptive home of our little girl. but right before we went to finalize her adoption we also found out the little girl we had been fostering for 1 1/2 years was now coming up for adoption as well. So we finalized our youngest daughter adoption in 10/2004 and waited to finalize our oldest daughters adoption.

But before that could happen we got our youngest son to foster with his goal also most likely being adoption. We fostered our oldest daughters adoption in 5/2005. Our youngest son came up for adoption in 3/2006..but his birthmom appealed the termination of her rights and held up his adoption for a while. In 10/2006 his birthmom gave birth to another baby boy that we fostered for a couple months before being adopted by relatives.

It was at that time that we felt in our heart it was time to go back to TTC. So that's when we started seeing the fertility DR. Again and found out our insurance now covers the injectables...We tried letrozole....and 2 rounds of Follistim and got pregnant with our first child in 6/2007. Then 7/2007 we finalized our youngest sons adoption and a couple weeks later also suffered our first miscarriage.

Took 2 months off and then got pregnant again with our second pregnancy...and it ended in miscarriage again.

So that brings us to today. Just found out I might actually be ovulating on my own..so currently in the 2ww.

(We have been VERY busy and VERY blessed over these last couple years).

I couldn't imagine my life with out my 4 precious children...they are everything to me...ADOPTION can be such a blessing.

We came here 6 years ago as a couple longing for children and now ...we've fostered 57 kids...have 2 babies and 4 Beautiful children. God is GOOD!!
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Fostered 57 children over 6+years
Adoptive Mommy to 4 of them...
Gregory (9) Riley (7) Laura (5) Coleman (4)

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Lost 3 (maybe 4) angel babies along the way
July07 (Natural Missed Miscarriage)
Dec. 07 (Identical twins??...D&C showed baby girl with Trisomy 16, but the yolk had split).
May08 (Vanishing Twin) but succesfully carried and delivered Logan 12/31/08

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Old 01-28-2008, 01:03 PM
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We tried for one year naturally and then did 1 cycle of IVF ISCI. Since then we have adopted two boys!
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Old 07-10-2008, 01:18 AM
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We have been ttc 6 months....3 miscarriages i am ready to adopt (have been since i new the word... i was the little girl wanting a foreign baby not a family)... i can't do this again!
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6-25-08 mc on my 3 year aniversary

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Old 07-10-2008, 08:12 PM
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We pursued adoption after 2 years of TTC. This included 15 months of fertility treatments (IUIs and a couple IVFs).
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DH - 30 low motility, morphology, and count
TTC - for 3 years prior to bringing our son home
Golden Retriever (8 yrs old)

10/06, 11/06, 12/06 - clomid, metformin, HCG, and timing (developed vision problems from clomid)
1/07, 2/07 - IUIs (letrozole, metformin, and HCG)
IVF #1 - 6/07 - IVF/ICSI (fresh transfer cancelled due to OHSS, retrieved 21 eggs - 16 mature)
8/16/07 - FET
Starting adoption process...but will keep trying
9/18/07 - FET
10/21/07 - FET w/AH
IVF/ICSI #2
12/31/07 - Fresh blasts w/AH
Will become parents via domestic adoption
1/08 Adoption education classes and homestudy
1/29/08 - wait begins
7/2/08 - Matched! Boy due July 25th!
7/22/08 - Our precious boy was born!
7/24/08 - he's home!
9/16/08 - TPR - Jaxon is our son forever!
2/3/09 - Finalized the adoption! Our son, forever and always!
Saving for child #2 - embryo adoption or domestic adoption

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Old 09-29-2008, 03:30 AM
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RE:When did you decide to adopt?

Hello. I've always wanted to adopt. I'm TTC for 2 years at 21 years old. I made a promise to myself that I would adopt a baby and an older child(from 1-5) at 18 years old. However I don't have the money to afford adoption, and am afraid I'll be disqualified because I was hospitalized twice(once at 14, and once at 15) in 2 seperate mental institutions and diagonosed with mental illness(of which I'm over), and because I'm not Christian(most adoption agencies in the USA I've looked into seem to only deal with Christian couples).
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Old 09-29-2008, 01:42 PM
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Don't get discouraged JuneBug. Check out adoption.com and the yahoo group adoption agency research. Write down what you want and be honest. Baby, older child, special needs, travel, open adoption, closed adoption, what cost can you handle? When you answer them then the kind of adoption that fits best will be more clear. Good luck!
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Old 02-11-2009, 08:47 PM
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After 1 year of ttc on our own we moved to 2 IUI's and 1 IVF (3 years ttc)...each ending in miscarriage. After this last miscarriage we both looked at one another and realized it was the time to adopt. Although we would love to have a biological child one day we have not looked back and are anxiously awaiting getting the call that we have been matched.
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Tobey (yorkie-poo) & Mandy (Pom mix)
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IUI #1-12/1/07 (3 weeks)
IUI #2-2/1/08
Ectopic- 7 weeks

IVF#1
7/11-Cycle Canceled
IVF#2
10/15 (6 weeks)
Bloodwork normal

*Moving on to Adoption
11/15-Home Study meeting 1
11/23-Home Study meeting 2
12/2-1st Consultation with Adoption Consultant
12/8-Began birthmother book
12/18-2nd Consultation with Adoption Consultant
1/10- officially waiting to be matched!
2/18-matched-Failed Adoption
6/10-matched again-due in August...please let this one work out!!

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Old 02-17-2009, 04:01 PM
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We have bee ttc for 6 almost 7 years now. I have been through 5 failed IUI's and 1 failed IVF. I'm just starting the adoption journey. We can't do anymore IF treatment due to financial reasons. I'm ready to start my new life now.
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me 36- unexplained (now POR) stage 3 endo
dh 40- normal
together 14 years, married 7.
cleo shady (our furry cat babies)
ttc- since 2002

tests- all basic test done and passed

IUI #1,2,3,4

Years of natural methods herbs, acupuncture ect.

IVF #1 antagonistic-cancelled- POR

IUI#5

IVF #2 antagonistic (still poor response) but still going on with it.

1/26/09 ER in a.m. (retrieved 5eggs )

1/29/09 ET-3 day, qty 2- 8 cell embies. Other 3 too small to even freeze.

2/11/09 first beta scheduled.

Time to start adoption process!
April 09- picked an agency finally.
June 09 picked new agency, homestudy in november maybe.
also started charting for the creightons program.
June-started levothyroxine for hypothyroidism
10/9/09 stage 3 Endo removed
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Old 02-24-2009, 03:00 PM
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My husband and I have been trying to conceive for just over a year, and have decided to move forward with adoption. We are VERY excited about adoption!!!!

I have severe endometriosis, and Hashimotios Thyroditis, and know it will most likely not happen naturally. Also, insurance does not cover invetro, and we simplmy can not take the finanicla or emotional stress of invetro. So, adoption it is
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Old 03-06-2009, 10:07 AM
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Good for you believe. I wish I didn't spend so much time and money on IF treatments. I could of adopted a long time ago and had a precious baby. Good luck!
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me 36- unexplained (now POR) stage 3 endo
dh 40- normal
together 14 years, married 7.
cleo shady (our furry cat babies)
ttc- since 2002

tests- all basic test done and passed

IUI #1,2,3,4

Years of natural methods herbs, acupuncture ect.

IVF #1 antagonistic-cancelled- POR

IUI#5

IVF #2 antagonistic (still poor response) but still going on with it.

1/26/09 ER in a.m. (retrieved 5eggs )

1/29/09 ET-3 day, qty 2- 8 cell embies. Other 3 too small to even freeze.

2/11/09 first beta scheduled.

Time to start adoption process!
April 09- picked an agency finally.
June 09 picked new agency, homestudy in november maybe.
also started charting for the creightons program.
June-started levothyroxine for hypothyroidism
10/9/09 stage 3 Endo removed
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Old 03-29-2009, 01:45 PM
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I wonder how long is "normal" for 2 relatively healthy (however mentally [job] stressed) 28 year old adults to conceive.

It has been a year and nothing, so we are starting to wonder... Not sure that we are interested in all of the additional stress involved with doctors visits, medications or shots, etc.

Is the next step just to go and find out what might be the problem, or are we being impatient?
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