Infertility Bites
I have just discovered a blog, In the Barren Season ( http://www.inthebarrenseason.blogspot.com ), in which a Jewish woman using the name Persephone records her thoughts about her ongoing treatment for infertility. I find its content very interesting.
I have always found the operations of the human reproductive system fascinating, both at the biological end and also the human end. At the end of this month, I embark on the third of three anatomy and physiology courses which are prerequisites to an application to nursing school, and it will be part 3 which will include the reproductive system. I'm looking forward to it.
My wife and I did ourselves endure infertility, which has now responded to treatment, once by PA and three times by TN/TRA (private adoption and transnational/transracial adoption).
Adoption is not 100% effective, and the failures can be every bit as painful as miscarriage or abortion, but it has a better success rate than any other treatment I know of, fewer side effects and (usually) lower costs.
I have always found the operations of the human reproductive system fascinating, both at the biological end and also the human end. At the end of this month, I embark on the third of three anatomy and physiology courses which are prerequisites to an application to nursing school, and it will be part 3 which will include the reproductive system. I'm looking forward to it.
My wife and I did ourselves endure infertility, which has now responded to treatment, once by PA and three times by TN/TRA (private adoption and transnational/transracial adoption).
Adoption is not 100% effective, and the failures can be every bit as painful as miscarriage or abortion, but it has a better success rate than any other treatment I know of, fewer side effects and (usually) lower costs.
posted by john_m_burt | 6:42 am
What say you of the effects on your children, when they turn adult and want to understand? Shouldn't we expect them to be posting on here, ten years hence?
Want to understand what? How you get adopted? Where babies come from? Why they're not like the rest of the family?
Dude, kids are NEVER like the rest of the family. At most, a kid is kind of like some member of the family -- or not.
In our own case (four adopted kids, four born to my wife before we met, one "informal" adoption), my wife has found that the kid who is most like her is the boy who was adopted from East Africa at the age of eight.
What I was getting at was the time when they want to meet their biological parents, etc. Surely that's quite common?
As far as likeness to parents go, it's my own (limited) experience that kids *do* turn out like their parents. I'm certainly like my dad, with a slight amount of mum thrown in. Others I know have complained over their own, similar, development. *However*, I don't think that's a genetics thing, it's more a social thing.
Anyway, about the 'where're my real parents' thing, how does one handle it?