• Question: If you or your partner couldnt have a baby, would you turn to IVF ?

    Asked by rhiaaannon to Claire, Greg, Jane, Jo, Nuruz, Vicki on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Jane Cleal answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      I would think about ivf, but i would also think about adoption

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      Claire O'Donnell answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      I’d consider it. I’d be keener to think of adoption but when we spoke about this before our children were born, my husband thought he’d be able to understand their bad behaviour if he could see our characteristics in the children. I don’t know if he still thinks the same when our youngest chats through the football ( that’s from me by the way)

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      Vicki Onions answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Hi again Rhiaannon
      Actually, my partner and i have discussed this (working in infertlilty makes you paranoid that somethings bound to go wrong!!) and we would consider it, yes

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      Jo Broadbent answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      That’s a hard question to answer. I really wanted children and now have 2 boys. I would have been very sad if I hadn’t been able to get pregnant and would probably have had tests to find put what the problem was and would have considered ivf. But ivf is very hard emotionally and not guaranteed to work. Plus there are lots of children looking for adoptive famies. So in our overpopulated world, maybe it would be better to consider fostering or adoption instead. It’s very hard to know what we would have dine if we’d been in that situation. We are v lucky to have 2 great sons. Jo

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      Greg FitzHarris answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Hmmm, good question.
      My gut response is to say no. HOWEVER, one never really knows how one will feel till it happens. My widfe and I still pretty young and havent tried to have kids yet. How would we feel if we tried and couldn’t. Honestly, i dont know.

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    Jo commented on :

    I know what Vicki means – I used to work for the HFEA, the organisation that regulates ivf, and a colleague used to say the body clocks of all the women who worked there ticked twice as loud and twice as fast