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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure if this is helpful to you, but I remember that when I was a kid, I knew that my dad underwent some sort of procedure "so that we could try to give you a baby brother or sister."  I'm not exactly sure how old I was at the time.  My dad was in the hospital overnight, and I remember going to visit him there.  It's fuzzy.

I do understand with IVF, the concern may be the ups and downs over the course of a few weeks, which would be different.  My parents certainly didn't keep me appraised of every development in their attempts to have another kid, and we haven't really talked since about the fact that they had fertility issues.  I remember they seemed excited, and I think they asked if I had any questions, but it wasn't as though they opened the door for continuing status updates on the subject.  It may be different if your daughter is watching you take the shots every night and it becomes a family project.

But for what it's worth, I have never really had any feelings one way or another about knowing my parents sought medical intervention to have another child.  I didn't feel burdened.  I didn't spend a lot of time worrying about why it didn't work.  (And in the end, it didn't; I'm an only child).[/quote]

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