Infertile...what exactly does that mean?

You Are Infertile....

So those are some pretty scary words...but what does that mean? I won't ever have a little bundle of my own to hold and someone to call me mom or I just might now be able to bear my own children?

I am going to let you in on a little secret that you might not know if you are not part of the "trying to conceive" community. There is almost no such thing as completely infertile...except for a select few. But if you have enough money, time, patience, sanity almost everyone can have a child of their own one way or another. But the bigger question is where does it stop? I think for a lot of couples this is the hardest decision to come too.

So lets say your eggs are not good or you have blocked fallopian tubes well then just buy someone elses eggs, if your husband sperm is not all that great okay then just buy some other "studs" sperm, if your uterus is not up to par okay then just rent another womens uterus. There is clomid, injectibles, IUI, IUI with clomid, IUI with injectibles, IVF, IVF with ICSI, IVF with GIFT, surragocy, and then in the end there is adoption. ALL and I mean ALL cost a lot of money and are emotionaly exhausting. It's almost comical when your doctor turns to you and says, "oh, it's okay we can just do IVF with ICSI" really? ohh it's okay? I'm sorry did I not make it clear that I usually don't have $18,000 just lying around. Did I fail to mention that...my mistake.

I swear I am waiting for the day where I am sitting up late at night watching t.v. thinking about how and when this is going to happen for us and an info commercial is going to come on, I can hear it now. Some Billy Mayes sounding guy....

~~Yes!! You too can have a child of your own...call now...and for the low low price of $14,000 you too can have a kid. First 50 callers get two free perscriptions of clomid.~~

So where does it end? When do you stop? I know I am not there yet but I am so afraid that I am not going to know when to say quit, I'm done, I've had enough. I hope I know soon because I certainly don't want to be in the vuneralbe position I am in now when that info commercial comes :o)