Thank God for Options

The bad news is were diagnosed as Infertile.  Sh*t, dammit, son of a b*tch....... The good news is we had options.  Phew! Our amazing Fertility Specialist helped explain our options and gave us all the time we needed to make a decision.  We never once felt pressured to do one thing or another. These were our options in no particular order;

1) Surgery to attempt to unblock my fallopian tubes
While this was a solid option that had the potential to have a long term outcome we decided against it due to the potential for complications, recovery time and the possibility that it could leave me worse off.

2) Adoption
This is definitely an option but to us it was important to investigate options to have a biological child first before moving onto adoption.

3) Remain a childless couple
Not an option for us. We both feel very strongly that we are meant to be parents.  While many people are content with this decision we knew that our lives wouldn't be complete without a child.

4) Participate in a clinical study of a new fertility treatment called INVOcell
Risky since there isn't a lot of research done on this procedure (none in North American), but an exciting opportunity to be apart of something so ground breaking.  The fact that fees would all be covered was appealing to us as well.

5) Undergo a standard cycle of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
A very solid contender.  We didn't know much about the procedure but we knew there was a ton of reliable information out there that would help us make a decision.