Slightly edited meme.

[rivka]

The problem with LJ: we have such bad memories that we don't necessarily remember what we've learned about each other. Or there never seems to be an opportune time to ask.

If you'd like, ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that might be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

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[starstraf.livejournal.com]

I'm asking much the same question of pregnant / trying people. I'm assuming your kid was planned, did you have a plan if you were unable to conceive? Where would your "woudl try up to here and after that would adopt" point be? (I have a friend trying to find that point and I find it an interesteing question)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I... don't know.

It took us a while to get me pregnant, so the possibility of infertility was certainly on my mind. We were just a month or two shy of scheduling an appointment with a reproductive endocrinologist when I got knocked up.

We certainly would've gone through a diagnostic workup. Beyond that, well, it would've depended on what the problem was and how intensive treatment would've been. I mean, something like hormone supplementation would be an easy choice for me, but something like IVF would be a much more complicated decision.

My insurance would've covered us for 3 IUI (intrauterine insemination) attempts and 3 IVF attempts. My gut feeling is that we would not have gone on to pay for additional attempts out of pocket, should it have been necessary. I mean, an adoption costs as much as an IVF attempt, but at the end you definitely have a baby, as opposed to a 30% chance of a baby. It would be hard for me to argue with that.

But in the end, it's hard for me to predict how I would react in that situation, because I haven't been there.