When I was only 3 or 4 years old some family friends had a new baby & my mom read the announcement to me. "I wasn't expected, I was selected"...isn't it funny that it has stuck with me for years. (That baby is now a 40 year old, successful business man!
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We went through IUI for one round and we gave ourselves one chance. (God helps those who help themselves was our theory...) It didn't work, so we happily started the paperwork that day! Ironically, we got pregnant on our own two months later. He's now 3.5 years old.
Last summer we once again gave ourselves one round of IUI and had the paperwork ready! Adopting has always been in our hearts.
(A friend of ours did the IUI one round & they're pregnant with triplets...
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