I have been reading your threads and thought maybe I would jump in here and offer my help if you feel you need any...
My partner and I live in Qld after moving here from NSW in Oct 07. We have one son, who was conceived at home with a known donor after previously going through two rounds of AI at a clinic in sydney, and one round of IVF/ICSI -We were lucky we ended up with our donor and had success pretty much straight away with the home method. We are planning on trying for our next baby using the same donor and the same "home" method early next year.
Anyway the point here is if you would like to chat and just ask questions, im happy to help any way i can.
Hi Levi, Thanks for the offer. I have two sons (10 and 8 years), who were conceived at home with a known donor when I was with my now ex. She is the biological mother of both of them and they live week about between the two houses. So when my partner and I started TTC over 18 months ago I felt pretty confident I knew what we were doing! My sons were conceived on the third and second tries so it was pretty quick (seemed an eternity at the time 'tho). I am curious that you went from IVF back to home AI. We have stopped trying ourselves at home in the inbetween months since starting IVF. What made you stop IVF and return to the 'do it yourself' method? Good luck with ttc your next child, would love to hear more from you, Girldoc
sorry for the late reply chirstmas craziness - I hope you had a great christmas and a good new year? well in anwser to your questions - i guess we stopped ivf because it was too draining and emotionally devoid of what we should have been feeling - ie excitement. so we tried the home method - given that we hadn't really given it a good go the very first few times we tried (with a different donor) and after a few months perfecting - we had success! We were foolish to attempt ivf first without trying the home method first, but when you want to have a baby we seemed to rely more readily on scientific medicine rather than just believing that sperm will meet egg in the traditional fashion. I just hope that the home method works again for us in the first few months that we try....I guess I have age on my side (although that doesn't even ensure a positive and easy ride).....although it does help...
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well in anwser to your questions - i guess we stopped ivf because it was too draining and emotionally devoid of what we should have been feeling - ie excitement. so we tried the home method - given that we hadn't really given it a good go the very first few times we tried (with a different donor) and after a few months perfecting - we had success! We were foolish to attempt ivf first without trying the home method first, but when you want to have a baby we seemed to rely more readily on scientific medicine rather than just believing that sperm will meet egg in the traditional fashion. I just hope that the home method works again for us in the first few months that we try....I guess I have age on my side (although that doesn't even ensure a positive and easy ride).....although it does help...
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