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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH and I have been trying to conceive for around 10 months and are starting to consider what our next step will be, and obviously IVF could very well be part of our future.  Something that keeps entering my mind is a hypothetical conversation with our future child regarding having used IVF to conceive them.  If we end up with additional embryos which is quite likely and choose to discard them, I don’t know how I would feel about sharing that with my child.  
I have never heard this discussed before and I’m wondering what most parents do.  I get the impression that most parents eventually tell their children about their origins, but do they share that info?  Not with a young child obviously, but I could see a teen who is familiar with the process asking if there were additional embryos and what then?  Is this something that most parents reveal? [/quote]

Why would you tell your child that you conceived via IVF?  If done the “traditional” manner, would you be considering whether to tell them it was missionary vs doggy?[/quote]

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