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I’m now in my late 40s - and even though I hadn’t ever envisioned more than two kids, the  way the first two experiences were just so simple - transfer, zero issues, easy birth and awesome kid 40 weeks later - has us tortured about the last one in storage. It’s not at all a religious thing for us…and I try to rationalize it with: well, we got so lucky twice, we don’t want to tempt fate…but it feels so concrete and real, in a way that I don’t think eggs alone or an untested embryo, or even multiple normal embryos, would. We know the gender. We remember the day we got the news about it. Once there were three embryos - now two of them are napping in the next room, and one is…not. If I had known it would work out this way, I wouldn’t have done that last cycle. But we were honestly advised that last cycle was my only way to have a shot at even a small chance of one. So we feel stuck paying hundreds of dollars a year until…I guess until I hit menopause, and can hopefully feel at peace with letting this go. [/quote]

My story was similiar in that I had two successful transfers and live births, but then felt like those two children were all we could manage given our ages and other factors. I did not want to discard the remaining embryos. I wanted them to join us "earthside" even if another couple birthed and raised them. It was not easy, emotionally. I had to fight through a lot of feelings to get to where I am now, which is in total awe of these little ones who are my genetic children and "extra loved" as our recipicent once said.

I just want to chime in here to say that open embryo adoption is also an option and can be amazing as long as you take the time to learn about it ahead of time and know how to move towards a truly open communication relationship. In addition to incredibly joyful stories, there are also sad stories of donors who wanted an open adoption, but the recipient parents were too insecure to actually allow for that to happen, at least early on. Look for an embryo donors only group on Facebook if you want more information.[/quote]

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