Post by Halloween King on Aug 6, 2014 21:54:33 GMT -5
That's awesome. My wife and I have been trying with no luck. She has some issues that make it more difficult, but not impossible. Adoption and fertility clinics are ridiculously expensive, and it's hard to imagine us going that route. But we are hoping.
Yes they are. We spent a big chunk of money trying to get help at various different clinics. Insurance does not cover fertility for the most part, unless you have some kind of awesome insurance I dont know about.
We talked about adoption for a while too. There is an INSANE time to wait to adopt a baby here in the United States. We were thinking of adopting in China but then we heard a story that made us not want to go that route. A friend of my Sisters tried to adopt in China back in the 90's. She told us that back in those days you had to pay Chinese government 20,000 dollars to be able to adopt. Then you would have to pay the orphanage and what ever legal fees incurred. The Chinese government demands the potential parents live in China for at least a month. So that you may get acquainted with the baby.
So my Sister's friend did all this that is required. Then the week they were expecting to leave China with the baby, the Chinese government decided to put a stop to all foreign adoptions. So these people grew to love a little baby and thought they would have a baby in their lives and it was snatched away from them at the last minute. Not to mention of everything they paid, nothing was refunded.
Like I said, this was in the 90's so maybe things are different today, hopefully for the better. We heard that story and thought it was horrible. There are babys out in the world with no parents and parents with no babys, but governments make it so hard to unite the two.
Good luck though, don't give up. We were told it would be impossible to have a baby. Then one day god decided we were decent enough people to bless us with a little bundle of joy. And even if you arent religious, just keep your spirits up, keep a positive attitude, read up on things that might help you. I know if I read about something or saw something I thought might help us, I was doing it.