Specifically has it increased the number of children you want? I have noticed over the last few months some of our veterans are considering when they'll start again for #3. I wonder did they always want 3 or more children?
Note: I hope this doesn't upset anyone, I know when we are working on #2 and trying to resolve whether to continue to pursue treatment or stick with one child there is a lot of emotion involved.
Re: Poll: Has IF changed the amount of children you want to have?
Not increased, no. I wanted 3 or 4 almost all my life. With these issues, my age and my DH's feelings on the subject, we've agreed to 2, if s/he decided to make an appearance by next June (by way of BFP). I think that given all my issues, I will feel blessed if I ever get a second and I believe I will feel the loss of the other 1-2 less intensly. I hope.
"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming..."
Miracle DD born 12.2005
TTC #2 since Dec 2008 w/ PCOS
***P/SAIF Always Welcome***
Keep it Natural, Baby!
"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming..."
Miracle DD born 12.2005
TTC #2 since Dec 2008 w/ PCOS
***P/SAIF Always Welcome***
Keep it Natural, Baby!
IF has not necessarily changed our desire for a lot of kids, but it has shook us into reality. We know right now we will be blessed if we ever get pregnant again.
It has also changed our life plans a bit as well. We had always planned on having a few bio children then maybe fostering when they were in school/teens. We are now halfway through the process of becoming a licensed foster home/foster-to-adopt.
I still hope to get pregnant and have more bio children, but we also are way more willing to having children in other ways then we once were.
Lastly, if we ever get pregnant again we will likely start saving to do IF treatments again shortly after for another baby. Just because it would have taken so long this time I want to hopefully not wait as long for the 3rd time.
"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming..."
Our Thanksgiving Day baby 11/22/07
Pregnant with #2 with LPD, uterine polyp/hysteroscopy, DOR (AMH = 0.17), 2 c/ps
Our early Christmas present 12/9/10
This is how I feel. Because I have always wanted 3, but there is no way I can A convince DH to try again for a third, and B that I would want to put our relationship and children through this all again.
Elijah Matthew - 5/3/07 ~ Adalyn Rosemary - 3/23/11
*Photos by Kacy Cierley*
When DH and I first got married, we wanted 3 children. When I was pregnant with #2, we were on the fence.
Now that #2 is here, we feel like there is more than enough room in our family for one more. We are hoping God agrees.
I always wanted 2 kids and I think DH too. He had a child from a previous relationship so after Lyla he felt complete. I, however did not. I love my step-daughter and consider her my own. She lives with us full time. I still have a very strong longing to have another biological child. Hopefully I will get pregnant and feel complete too....
TTC #2 since 4/09
Unexplained Secondary IF
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4 failed rounds of clomid ~ 4 failed IUIs ~ 1 m/c
2/3/11: IUI #5 - Femara/Follistim/Ovidrel/Crinone = BFP (2/14)!!!
Beta #1 (12dpiui): 53 Beta #2 (14dpiui): 203 Beta #3 (20dpiui): 3932 Beta #4 (28dpiui): 60,775
1st U/S (3/3): 2 sacs & yolks 2nd U/S (3/8) 2 heartbeats-TWINS!
Baby A:6w6d HR 131 Baby B:6w4d HR 124
TWINS!! EDD 10/25/2011
we actually always talked about 3-4, but now we are just considering stopping at 2 if we get pg. Or even now I am starting to think it's just not meant to be and being happy with one. I've been going back and forth with that though, from being really into going for number two and then just thinking oh maybe just the three of us is best (usually during the 2ww and after a bfn).
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When I was very small, I used to say that I wanted "10 sets of twins." Seriously.
I would much prefer singletons now, but I'd love to have had a passel of children. It's just not physically possible. I've got less than 10 childbearing years left, and in the first 9 most fertile, I only managed 2 kids.
We may adopt some day--older kids from the foster system. But I'd want my bio kids to be older than the adopted kids, since older foster-to-adopt kids so often come with so many problems. So we're not even discussing it until we shut down the factory for good, so to speak.
TTC since 6/02 (age 22) K/U instantly despite no AF for 5 months--preemie baby boy 1/03
M/C 11/04 - M/C 05 - M/C 06 - BFP 2/08--fullterm baby girl 10/08 - M/C 4/11 - went to RE at age 31
DX: crappy quality & infrequent ovulation, mild MFI
Stimmed cycle #1 C/P 7/11 - Stimmed cycle #2 C/P 8/11 - Stimmed cycle #4 C/P 10/11
On Stimmed Cycle #5
Always thought I'd be a "mom of many"--now just hoping to be a "mom of one or two more!"