And today, a reminder why I'm on the adoption wagon instead of the fertility treatment wagon

[marydell]

I've been sick with some kind of food-poisony thing for a couple of days. In fact I was so sick that yesterday I just slept with the cat on top of me (when I wasn't, ahem, more directly engaging with the illness), and today I just lay on the couch watching realtime TV, since the tivo'd stuff is usually watched with my husband, and I didn't have the brain power to absorb anything like "John Adams" anyway.

Discovery Health is one of my favorite channels - and I see they have a show called The Baby Lab. As an infertile chick, I'm interested in ye olde reproductive technology (although I do not partake, being on the adoption track myself). So I look at the info thingy for the show and it says "an in vitro fertilization is unsuccessful, a couple suffers from miscarriage, a failed vasectomy reversal." Um, whee? Who writes these things?

Of course I ended up watching most of the damn thing anyway. End tally: 3 happy couples with babies, 2 devastated couples whose crushing disappointments were recorded on camera for all to see. HOWL.

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[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

My sister-in-law and her hubby went thru domestic adoption too, and that was nerve-wracking indeed. One time, just before the birth, the mother decided to keep her baby, so you can imagine the disapointment. But their efforts finally bore fruit:

http://pics.livejournal.com/serge_lj/pic/00034r01/g2

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Ooo, he's a cutie! Yeah, it seems like everyone has at least one fall-through...but that's just part of the deal. And since it's a risk of heartbreak for an adoptive parent, but a guarantee of heartbreak for a birth parent, I figure I've got the very-much-easier end of the bargain.

I don't suppose that'll be a heck of a lot of comfort when my turn for a let-down comes, but it'll be some. Seeing pictures like yours is considerably more of a comfort! And cause for hope. :)

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Hang in there. There'll be a child whose life will join with yours.