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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Options to consider:
1) donor egg
2) adoption

As for the lonely only, you'll have a better chance to find a nice community when she gets into preschool or elementary.  My advice is seek out other  only families as they're looking for this type of friendship too, in my experience.  I don't know where you live, but it seems like there are more only families in closer-in and urban neighborhoods.  [/quote]

Thanks PP.  Adoption is out of the question, because DH's family had a very negative experience with adoption--he has an adopted sibling who is now estranged from the family.  DH does not want to do adoption.

Donor egg is a possibility.  But I'm definitely not willing to do IVF for such low chances of success--I'm 37 with basically no eggs left (AMH is .01--almost zero).  How it could get so bad when I just got pregnant naturally after the first try almost 2 years ago confuses me.

Anyhow, we are currently in preschool (doing a Mommy and Me class), and while I had such high hopes for meeting other families and making friends, that just hasn't happened yet (the other families have 3 kids, and are too busy to get together).  We're in some swim/gymnastics classes, music classes, etc. and I haven't made any good friends--it's always the same story--most are too busy with work, or have 2 kids and too busy to get together.  It's mostly nannies in my daytime classes.  I'm a SAHM.

Unfortunately we live in the distant suburbs, very far out, and while there are many families around most have 3 kids/older kids.   It's been hard to find any only child families, and hard to connect with them as the moms usually work full-time and don't have time on the weekends to get together.[/quote]

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