Anonymous
7/11/2025, 3:26:35 AM No.33345646
My wife and I had a son three years ago, it took us a year to conceive him and we were about to see a fertility specialist. We tried right away to have a second, but after 18 months we spoke to the specialist. Then we conceived naturally 4 times in a row, each of them ending in miscarriage. Then we had 9 months without anything so we went back to the specialist, and a 5th miscarriage happened. They have not been able to identify any cause, although my wife has PCOS, and 1 foetus had a chromosomal disorder.
I don't know what to do. We are struggling emotionally and it's affecting our family. She has lost control of her body which must be horrible, I can't imagine what it must be like to have several surgeries and pass multiple dead children. Our son is growing up without a sibling, and even if we do have one ASAP the age gap is already quite large. Also, my wife will hit 35 soon even though we started trying for kids at 30, which makes it even less likely we'll have a healthy pregnancy. Part of me wants to stop trying so the ordeal stops, but we are both set on at least one more child. Originally we wanted 5. It is important to us that our children be ours, especially as adoption is basically illegal in our country.
My wife wants to get IVF. I'm not sure if that will assist, or if it will just result in more miscarriages. It might help depending on what the reason for the miscarriages is. However, it's also hugely expensive and we are not very well-off, though we could increase our mortgage. Primarily though, I cannot see how IVF is not murder, given that the process is to conceive as many children as possible and implant only one of them. My wife doesn't agree, she's anti-abortion but doesn't think life begins until implantation at the earliest given how common natural non-implantation is.
I appreciate any suggestions. I would also love for someone to convince me that IVF is somehow moral.
I don't know what to do. We are struggling emotionally and it's affecting our family. She has lost control of her body which must be horrible, I can't imagine what it must be like to have several surgeries and pass multiple dead children. Our son is growing up without a sibling, and even if we do have one ASAP the age gap is already quite large. Also, my wife will hit 35 soon even though we started trying for kids at 30, which makes it even less likely we'll have a healthy pregnancy. Part of me wants to stop trying so the ordeal stops, but we are both set on at least one more child. Originally we wanted 5. It is important to us that our children be ours, especially as adoption is basically illegal in our country.
My wife wants to get IVF. I'm not sure if that will assist, or if it will just result in more miscarriages. It might help depending on what the reason for the miscarriages is. However, it's also hugely expensive and we are not very well-off, though we could increase our mortgage. Primarily though, I cannot see how IVF is not murder, given that the process is to conceive as many children as possible and implant only one of them. My wife doesn't agree, she's anti-abortion but doesn't think life begins until implantation at the earliest given how common natural non-implantation is.
I appreciate any suggestions. I would also love for someone to convince me that IVF is somehow moral.
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