This is a "rant"... more like a
"get it out there to get it off my mind so I can write my damn final".
Feel free to skip over.
I know it's a silly thing to be thinking about right now with graduation and my wedding coming up, but after a weekend of being with my in-laws I've started thinking about when David and I might start a family. Being around my pregnant sister-in-law really brought home the reality for us.
Many of you know there's been some question about my fertility and the health of my reproductive system. I won't get to far into it, but the general idea is that I got the crappy genes in our family. Much like my late grandmother I'm having a lot of issues early on with cysts and related problems.
This weekend I heard "get your eggs frozen" multiple times.
Let's break this down, using various fertility clinic's information to get our averages.
A single cycle of "harvesting" is on average $10,000
Most women need 3-4 cycles to get enough eggs to be a viable freezing so actually $30,000
The cost to store the harvested eggs varies but about $500 a month
Ideally we would wait 2 years until David graduates, or more because we should wait until we're settled into the new area. That comes to $12,000 if we go with exactly 2 years of storage.
Then we get to the actual cost of IVF averaging out at $12,400 per cycle
It usually take a few cycles, so lets go with 2 for the sake of being optimistic (there's only an 85% success rate for implantation) so $24,800
Our grand total for "just freeze your eggs" comes to $66,800
Insurance doesn't generally cover these things.
I can appreciate the sentiment of trying to give me a solution, its something I've thought about a lot. But its not a viable option.
In the end, David and I will have to decide if we want a child, and then we'll need to get a couple of opinions from doctors about what my health dictates needs to happen. That may mean a million things, but what it comes down to is that David and I will be making some tough choices and we hope our family will be there to support us no matter what.
"get it out there to get it off my mind so I can write my damn final".
Feel free to skip over.
I know it's a silly thing to be thinking about right now with graduation and my wedding coming up, but after a weekend of being with my in-laws I've started thinking about when David and I might start a family. Being around my pregnant sister-in-law really brought home the reality for us.
Many of you know there's been some question about my fertility and the health of my reproductive system. I won't get to far into it, but the general idea is that I got the crappy genes in our family. Much like my late grandmother I'm having a lot of issues early on with cysts and related problems.
This weekend I heard "get your eggs frozen" multiple times.
Let's break this down, using various fertility clinic's information to get our averages.
A single cycle of "harvesting" is on average $10,000
Most women need 3-4 cycles to get enough eggs to be a viable freezing so actually $30,000
The cost to store the harvested eggs varies but about $500 a month
Ideally we would wait 2 years until David graduates, or more because we should wait until we're settled into the new area. That comes to $12,000 if we go with exactly 2 years of storage.
Then we get to the actual cost of IVF averaging out at $12,400 per cycle
It usually take a few cycles, so lets go with 2 for the sake of being optimistic (there's only an 85% success rate for implantation) so $24,800
Our grand total for "just freeze your eggs" comes to $66,800
Insurance doesn't generally cover these things.
I can appreciate the sentiment of trying to give me a solution, its something I've thought about a lot. But its not a viable option.
In the end, David and I will have to decide if we want a child, and then we'll need to get a couple of opinions from doctors about what my health dictates needs to happen. That may mean a million things, but what it comes down to is that David and I will be making some tough choices and we hope our family will be there to support us no matter what.
I'm there for you two!!! You need to do what's right for you and your family plans.
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