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Reply to "How to come to terms with giving up, accepting you won't have children"
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[quote=Anonymous]I am sorry. I think no matter what path you end up on, there will always be regrets and questions. This piece was helpful to me and my wife as we decided to try infertility treatments, and then to stop treatment (like you, we chose not to do IVF) and pursue adoption: http://therumpus.net/2011/04/dear-sugar-the-rumpus-advice-column-71-the-ghost-ship-that-didnt-carry-us/ While adoption is not the answer for everyone, and it sounds like taking a break from the kid question is where you're at right now, I know folks in their 50s and 60s who are foster or adoptive parents, often of older kids, and it has worked out very well (though of course the kids have been through a lot and it can be a different type of parenting). So if it helps you to frame this choice not as "committing to being childless" but as "choosing to stop fertility treatment but leaving open the possibility of parenting down the road" then so be it. [/quote]
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