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[quote=Anonymous]Some of these comments are wild.

We told our daughter we used IFV when we had "the talk" about sex, I think this was the summer before 5th grade. She read a book with the word sperm in it (a middle grade book the school assigned of all things) and that's what prompted this. We explained how the sperm and egg usually get together, and that in our case it didn't work. So we moved on to having a doctor to help, and that's how the doctor helped the sperm and egg meet.

We got a picture of her as a 10 day old embryo after implantation that we showed her. We added that life doesn't always work out how you think, we thought we would have kids the old-fashioned way and that we would have more kids, but in the end we ended up with the perfect family for us!

In fifth grade they had the sex talk at her Catholic school, and they could ask anonymous questions, and she asked "What is IVF" because, she said, she thought everyone should know.

Maybe it seems cold and sterile to people who have not done this but there is a ton of love, trust and hope that goes into building a family like this.

No comment on the IQ test.[/quote]

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