A commenter posited a question of me – well, really it was more of an assumption, but I’ll take it as a question. It actually is an interesting one. I know what I would do, but what would you do?<\/p>\n
If you had an option between paying out of pocket for infertility services or being put on a wait list to receive it for free, which would you choose?<\/strong> Would you pay to get in right away? Or would you wait? Would it matter how long the wait was? 3 months? 6? 12? Would it matter what treatments you were getting? IUI? IVF? (For simplification, let’s say that the wait list is just to get accepted into the treatment program – once you’re in you would get the same cycle treatments on the same timeline as if you paid.)<\/p>\n My Take: This is not what I think I would do, it is what I *did* do. After we lost Devin I wanted to start infertility treatments right away, as soon as possible. It is a horrible, twisted feeling to wait for something like this, not just when dealing with infertility but also after such a horrible loss, all I wanted was to be pregnant again. But we already knew we needed IVF. We could have taken out a home loan, I suppose. We could have put it all on our credit card. But instead I waited 6 months to get a job, and then 3 months for my insurance to kick in, at which point I was able to do an IVF cycle under my new insurance and pay only a couple hundred dollars in co-pays. If we just needed clomid or injects maybe I would have dug into our pockets a little out of desperation… but for us $15k IVF cycles are worth a few months to get for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A commenter posited a question of me – well, really it was more of an assumption, but I’ll take it as a question. It actually is an interesting one. I know what I would do, but what would you do? If you had an option between paying out of pocket for infertility services or being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[307],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}