Lol, yeah that's exactly the thought I had too. I have 3 girls, grew up in a family of 3 girls and my god I couldn't imagine more. I have mad respect for my dad for staying sane through us. Let's hope my husband stays sane as well!
Haha, well it isn't that bad. My 2 older daughters live with their mom, my ex-wife, so they are only here on the weekends. The big problem for me is they are teenagers now, 14 and 15, so there is about an 11 year gap between my kids. So I get to suffer through the teen years (holy fucking drama BTW), then get a 10 year break, and do it all over again.
All 3 of mine will hit the teen years at about the same time. When my oldest is 16, my youngest will be 13. I shudder at the thought of the future.
We've *kind of* been thinking the same thing. Being 0/3 on boys though, I don't know if it is worth the risk. >.<
My wife tells me that they have some way to influence the sex with IVF. I know nothing about it at all, but it sounds reasonable. Maybe 10 years from now or so that is something I would be open to.
There are a few different things they can do to pre-select the sex. My wife and I had to do IVF for our 3 due to my disability, and since I already had 2 girls I inquired about making sure one was a boy.
You shouldn't do IVF just to pre-select the sex. If you have to do IVF anyway, then go for it, but IVF is not a particularly great way to make a healthy baby.
She had to get her tubes tied due to health complications in her last pregnancy. It is the only option we would have other than adoption. Which is a viable alternative imo, I'm sure at first you would have feeling about wanting your own kid or whatever but once you had the baby that would fade really quickly. idk, right now we're not making any decisions, it is just a thought. I thought before that I wouldn't be satisfied unless I had a boy some day and I might feel that way later, but right now I am content. The wife is the one driving this discussion, hormones or something I guess.
Why do you say this? Of course if you can conceive naturally you should do that, but I wasn't aware that it wasn't a good way to make a healthy baby. We got 3 healthy kids out of it, and only implanted 4 embryos.
because he's an asshole. people have great healthy babies via ivf the same as they do natural conception.
When I read the literature a couple of years ago, it was suggested that because IVF doesn't allow the normal competition process for sperm to reach the egg, and instead the sperm are just put there and fertilize the egg in the manner in which they do, you are eliminating one of the gating mechanisms to weed out weaker/slower/unhealthy sperm.
well thank god you knew what you were talking about before shooting your mouth off and saying something really potentially offensive. Infertility is a heartbreaking and expensive struggle and you saying ignorant shit like that surprise actually comes off as you being an asshole.
