Limited Fert

After much prayer and discussion, R and I finally came to a conslusion about the big "how many egg do we fertilize" question.

Here's where we're coming from -- (note: we do not make this judgement for anyone else, this is our personal belief) -- we believe that life begins at conception, whether that conception is in a petri dish or in a woman's uterus, meaning the embryos the embryolgists create are human lives at that point. Neither R not myself are fans of freezing eggs or embryos. We'd pretty much resigned ourselves to the fact that we were headed towards adoption and wouldn't have any biological children. Being able to do IVF is side road before that road of adoption. Although I have wonderful insurance coverage, we will not be doing IVF again. This is our one and only try. If God wants us to have a biological child, He'll allow it - this is truly how we're looking at the procedure.

Limited Fertilization means we've decided to fertilize only 8 eggs. The ratio of them turning into blastocysts (which are 8+ celled embryos that they implant) is about 50% or so. We're hoping that we'll get 3 blasts to be able to implant. If God allows 4, 5, or all 6 to make it into blasts, then we will turn to the option of freezing them. Likely, we will turn to embryo adoption, because unless God changes our hearts, we won't be doing IVF again. If 0 make it to blasts, then God's will was accomplished, and we're headed off to adopt the lovely child(ren) he has waiting for us.

Tough to think about, because we both want to be so positive about this procedure. Chances of pregnancy are only 50/50, so we can't get our hopes up too much. As of now, we're resting in His love and in His peace.