I am by no means an expert on the adoption process, but I have seen some of the hoops that need to be jumped through.

Keeping in mind that an IVF stim cycle has the potential to put me in hospital for a week or more while recovering, and the emotional toll of the miscarriages has been immense...

IVF is a much easier, cheaper and more accessible option than IVF, not to mention that it's quicker in many cases. The actual process of adoption in Australia is incredibly difficult and time consuming. You're looking at a 5 year wait for most countries for ICA, which puts a whole lot of people in the catch 22 situation of needing to stop fertility treatment to be able to adopt, but by the time you finally get there, you're then too old. But now also too old to conceive even through IVF.

The medicare rebates for IVF made it possible for us to pursue it as a treatment option. There are no rebates or financial assistance for adoption, and from all I have read, it is FAR more expensive than IVF treatment in Australia.

Not to mention that all the detoxing and naturopathic treatment in the world can't actually fix some fertility problems. There's no magic cure for DH's sperm problems. There's no simple way to make me ovulate. There's no natural remedy to the immune and clotting problems that make it hard for my babies to stick. Sometimes the only answer is to break out the big guns.

BW