Should I Stop Infertility Treatments and Try Another Option? - Weekend Wisdom

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Dawn Davenport  0:00  
Welcome everyone to weekend wisdom by creating a family. Weekend wisdom is a segment of the creating a family podcast. The creating a family podcast is put on by the nonprofit creating a family which is a national support and training nonprofit. For foster adoptive and kinship families. Each Sunday morning, we draw a short segment called weekend wisdom answering your question that we received, you can submit your own questions to info at creating a family.or somewhere in this subject line, try to remember to put weekend wisdom and it will get to me. All right, so today's question is, how do you know when it's time to stop infertility treatment and move to another option, including adoption, a lot of people do come to adoption from having struggled with infertility, and there are so many options now, if IVF is not working for you, you might consider third party reproduction which would include donor egg donor sperm donor embryo or surrogacy. If your fertility issues involve not being able to carry a pregnancy, you also can consider adoption, which would include domestic infant adoption, or adopting a child from foster care or international adoption. But the question you're facing is whether to stop trying to have a genetically related child. That's the important part here. So tourists dramatic understatement, let's say there is no easy answer. It's also a decision that you shouldn't rush. You know, truthfully, the death of a dream deserves time for mourning, and you need to give it that time. Now, there is no one answer for everyone. But I think answering the following five questions can be useful. The key here is for both partners, if you're partnered in a relationship to soul search, without judgment, because there really isn't a right answer, only honest answers. So the first question, how important is having a genetic connection to your child? Remember, there aren't judgments here? You need to answer honestly. Question number two, how important are the physical aspects of pregnancy and breastfeeding? Three, how financially and emotionally weary? Are you with the whole fertility treatment process? Fourth question is becoming a parent more important to you than giving birth or being genetically linked? And the fifth question, the fear and uncertainty about another form of family building is outweighed by the excitement and hope. So is the fear and uncertainty about another form outweighed by excitement and hope? The question is to quit before your resources. And that means your emotional resources, marital resources, and monetary resources are all used up, because your other avenues for creating your family are resource intensive as well. So good luck with these questions, and answering them. Thanks for listening to this week's weekend wisdom. If you've liked it, please tell a friend to subscribe to the creating a family.org podcast. Before you go, let me tell you about the creating a family e newsletter. It's free, it's terrific. All you got to do is sign up for it and you will every month, get a newsletter in your inbox and we curate four of the best resources that we have seen that month would help you. And when you do you get a free guide. So in this case, you can sign up at Bitly slash C A F guy. It's bi T dot L y slash C A F guy

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