[BornAgainRenee]

Well we are all in the same boat, and Stephanie's "am I insane" post got me thinking.
Tell us what your thoughts are on how far you will personally go to get pg. Will you save thousands of dollars, would you go with a surrogate, or donnor sperm if dh has low count? Or would you stop at going as far medically without extreme costly measures?

[MountainMomma]

I won't go with a surrogate. IF I can't enjoy the pregnancy myself, we may look into adoption, but not surrogacy. Not sure why. I think it's a great thing, and even considered being a surrogate myself at one point. Just not something I would personally do.

As for IVF... I go back and forth on this one. Mainly because of the expense. Part of me feels like I am robbing Sierra and Will if I spend THAT MUCH money on a chance to MAYBE get pregnant. The other part of me wants to do anything and EVERYTHING I possibly can before throwing in the towel. I guess we'll see.

When we thought the issue was DH, we were kind of looking into sperm banks, and BIL even offered to donate his swimmers so that the baby was still biologically related to Matt. I just thought that would be a little weird.... being pregnant with BIL's baby and then DH raising it. Mostly weird for DH and BIL. In the end, Matt had great counts, so it ended up not being an issue.

We are going to try IUI this spring if we don't have a BFP before then... and we all know about my insanity post.... I think we might actually try it. We'll see.

[BornAgainRenee]

We haven't talked at all about how far we would go. Im sure that dh feels like since we have been blessed 5 times that we should be happy with where we are. I am happy with my kids, I love them with all my heart, but I know I have room for one more. I also know that if it doesn't happen that I will be ok. I just keep praying that it does.
I don't think that we would ever do IVF, maybe IUI. I would do clomid if needed and what ever else, metformin or what ever.
I don't think I would do a surrogate, mostly because I have 5 kids. I wouldn't do a sperm donor for the same reason. I guess if I don't get pregnant, without a lot of intrusive stuff, then Im not going to. Which kinda makes me sad.

[MarieJ]

Until we adopted the twins, we were planning on two more IVF tries, then move to adoption. Now that we have three, we're just going to hope for an oops, or take an adoption that might come our way someday. No more IVF drugs, my DH is scared that something will happen to me and he'll be raising 3 kids alone. We aren't willing to take that chance.

[Mommy2Dakota]

Having only being pregnant once I really really want to be pregnant again, to experience the kicks and the birth...yeah, even the aches and maybe sickness! Therefore surrogacy and adoption are out for me. I wouldn't say no to adoption down the lane, but only if I cannot have my own at all.
Medically...I will do anything up until a financial point. Clomid and such medications will be free for me here, being in UK, but IVF wouldn't and I am not sure...we don't have the money and it would be a hardship to save up. I don't think my hubby would be agreeable to it as he likes his once-a-year vacation and he would say we need to LIVE NOW and enjoy what we have, not scrimp and save for years being miserable and then the IVF might fail.
There is a lady at work who spent thousands on IVF and nothing. She has had to accept being childless forever.
I just pray we never get that far. I am certain my low progesterone/hormone problem will be fixed with medications?
In terms of 'home' remedies, herbs and online stuff, I'm pretty willing to try anything!