The Adoption Process (1 Viewer)

[Zow]

Woz, has you doctor discussed ICSI? A lot of people in the IVF thread have had ####ty swimmers. It's not really as much of an issue in the past few years.

EDIT: Nevermind, I see a lot of people have said essentially the same thing.

If the problem is solely male infertility and you're open to adoption then donor sperm is going to be a cheaper option than adoption (which is not to #### on those who are giving kids who need them homes, they're awesome).

Yes, I think that's the ball-jabber process which scares the crap out of me!

Only in the most extreme cases. [SIZE=14.3999996185303px]"ICSI" just means the injection of the sperm into the egg. It doesn't require retrieval of the sperm through injection.[/SIZE] For most, you just give a fresh collection, usually by a dispirited masturbation session in some of the most depressingly appointed porn rooms in the world. The clinic will then select normal sperm and inject the retrieved eggs with the "good" sperm.

I "gave" my last sample in what was essentially a closet in some lab. There were three rather heavyset, unattractive nurses outside the door about five feet away. I walked in there seriously worried about performance. Thank god for smartphones.

 

[Zow]

Now I kinda feel bad for knocking my wife up "accidentally"...twice.

Nah, don't feel bad. I interact almost daily with people who either didn't intend to have kids, weren't exactly conscious when the kid was created, or really aren't in a life position to have kids. Yet they spit them out like a baseball player chewing tobacco.

Some of us just don't physically possess the ability. Possibly nature's birth control. Or, nature's way of making people adopt.

 

[Zow]

Can't they just take one of the good sperms and inject it into an egg?

Just let a black dude get your wife pregnant. The only thing that ever held you back in baseball was your physical short comings. Imagine if you had an athletically gifted son that you could share all if your sports knowledge with... Besides, the kid one only be half black like AZ Ron, and he gets tons of ### too!

I like where your head is at here...

 

[Zow]

My wife and I have a 7 year old son we adopted from Russia. We tried IVF 3 times before we decided to adopt.

From the start of the paperwork to the time we brought him home was right around 9 months. He was a year old when we got our referral and 15 months when we got him home.

We made 3 trips in about a month and a half to two month span.

He was the first grandchild for both set's of grandparents. No one, family or friends have ever treated him different or acted differently around him than they have with any of the other kids that have come since. If anything he was more spoiled than the rest. I would think that would just depend on your family.

We have had 2 more kids since then. We have a 4 year old boy that IVF worked on, it was frozen eggs from our first IVF try that worked.

My youngest is a girl who is almost 1. She was a natural pregnancy, but we did have a Doctor's appointment scheduled for a week after we found out.

 

[Zow]

Also, being able to counter the wife's "I was in labor with him/her for X hours" for the rest of your life by saying "I let them shove a needle in my balls just for the chance of being able to have our child" is priceless.

True. But I still have to have a needle shoved into my balls.

 

[Autumn Wind]

We officially adopted our son 4 years ago last week (he turns 5 in March). I have no way to compare it to raising a biological child, but I can't imagine it turning out any better for us. Yeah it was expensive, but so were fertility treatments and they were a lot more emotionally exhausting as well.

I was all ready for a big showdown with my family over treating my son differently because he's adopted, but it hasn't even been an issue. In some ways I find it a bit liberating because I'm not saddling my son with certain expectations about personality, intelligence, etc. that I might if he shared my DNA.

In short, it's been the greatest and most challenging experience of my life and I wouldn't change a thing.

 

[Henry Ford]

Also, being able to counter the wife's "I was in labor with him/her for X hours" for the rest of your life by saying "I let them shove a needle in my balls just for the chance of being able to have our child" is priceless.

True. But I still have to have a needle shoved into my balls.

Small price to pay for the smiting of one's enemies.

 

[T Bell]

As you know I adopted my son. When I come down off of my post-surgery Percocet high I'll give you a substantive answer.

 

[Kanil]

You could also have your wife "cheat" on you with some rich dude, get a kid, and buttloads of child support!