Comment on I'm happy to be able to live in this world, we all came here somehow. Not sex, before that, you we're nothing, and now you're something! Yay! Oh wait, it's not forever? Fuck.

sxan@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• EssentialNPC@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nope! My wife was enjoying a chemically-induced nap in one room when my kids were conceived. I was in another room with broken DVDs and suspiciously easy to clean chairs. The kids were conceived in a third room by a lab worker and incredibly complex equipment.

  The traditional way is much more fun. Try that first.

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  • sxan@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OK, yeah. “All” was wrong. Aside from IVF, 98% of us (in the US).

    Your kids are waaaay more expensive than most. This is a fact they can use against their peers in school to assert dominance. Also, I blinked at the plural; did you just get lucky, or are you well-heeled enough to have gone through this more than once? Also also, my regards to your wife for the hellish pre-op chemical routine she probably had to endure. Yeah, your kids were hard-won. Kudos.

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    • EssentialNPC@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We happened to live in the U.S. state with the best reproductive rights laws and have the best health insurer for IVF in that state. It did cost thousands of dollars, but it was still 4 digits overall. We were getting by on a single income at the time, but it was really the health insurance and state laws that made it doable.

      We needed two cycles because the first failed completely, but the second cycle (ICSI for those who care) produced multiple embryos. They only implanted one at a time, so my second kid is a freezer baby.

      But yeah, my wife has a true, diagnosed needle phobia and did it anyway. She is a God damn trooper.

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      • sxan@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It wasn’t is, but my SIL went through this; same process: 2 tries, second was a success, and a third is waiting. But she’s at the age where it’s getting to be a real concern for viability, so the third will probably forever remain an unrealized possibility.

        That injection routine sounded hellish, though.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The kids were conceived in a third room by a lab worker and incredibly complex equipment.

    Is that what they’re calling it these days?

    Congrats on your family!

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