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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here-for DC #1, we did SG’s Shared Risk program. We did two rounds and it cost us about $30,000 out of pocket. No frozen embryos. For DC #2, my husband specifically took a job with the Federal Government to get health insurance (there were three insurers that offered coverage for IVF at the time). We got lucky and only had to do one round of IVF, which only cost us $5,000 out of pocket.  For DC #3, we found out that no Federal Government insurance company would cover IVF so we did one round of IVF before our insurance ran out. It didn’t work. Then we paid for two more rounds of IVF out of pocket (though we did get a small discount using Artna’s SG discount rate). On the third round, IVF worked and resulted in DC #3. Those three rounds cost us about $30,000. So all in all, 6 rounds of IVF, two covered by insurance, and our out of pocket expenses were about $65,000. [/quote]

Thanks for sharing! May I ask how old you were when starting DC3 IVF and if you and your husband talked about an end game?[/quote]

I was 37 years old when we started DC3. My husband and I never discussed an end game because we both agreed that we were set on having a third child no matter what. We would have spent even more. We actually wanted four children (before we discovered our infertility). You are not being selfish to want a third child. I don’t know your diagnosis or your financial situation, but I can tell you that you aren’t being selfish and you shouldn’t base your decision on fears that you are. [/quote

Thanks-- may I ask how that turned out? Do you have 3 kids now and how many rounds of IVF did you need to do?[/quote]

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