Anna,
You didn't offend me in any sense with your thread. I have been dealing with infertility for 2 years.
I have CF and my husband isn't a carrier. For us, we weren't even going to try if he came up a carrier because we didn't want to bring a "sick" child into the world. I wouldn't want to give this disease to my worst enemy yet my own child. It does blow my mind when people try knowing the odds of CF, but I keep my mouth shut. Right now, my husband works with a young couple who jumped into the ring knowing<b> beforehand</b> and now may be pregnant with a child affected by CF. I'm keeping my mouth shut...I'm currently on IVs, and they are asking Jake all kinds of questions. They too have already miscarried one child affected by CF. This is there second pregnancy.
However, it is different here in the United States vs. Norway. Here NOTHING IS PAID FOR AS FAR AS INFERTILITY PROCEDURES ARE CONCERNED!!! That's one of the reasons why so many babies are born with CF here. NOT TOO MANY CAN AFFORD THE PROCEDURES NEEDED TO AVOID CF. I can't afford IVF so I am forgetting the whole thing. Besides that, with CF, I'm not too sure IVF would be a wise decision. Those are just my reasons...
From an economic standpoint, it would cost the US FAR LESS to do a procedure to AVOID CF THAN TAKE CARE OF A CF AFFECTED INDIVIDUAL. I guess the US just can't understand the simple logic of it all...I'm NOT very US "friendly" when it comes to infertility matters, if you haven't noticed that already...It's one of those issues that you don't want to get me started on
Norway is one of quite a couple countries that pays for its citizens to get infertility treatments. I think that is GREAT!!! You are so fortunate to have those options available to you! I wish you the best! <img src="i/expressions/heart.gif" border="0">