Embryo Donation

I came across some really interesting things lately.

Mostly, the one big reserve Bill has in IVF (big as in, it's the only reserve) is what happens if we have extra fertilized embryos and we can't use them all.

(this situation is highly unlikely, even more unlikely with me having only one ovary, and even super more unlikely with us getting two eggs transferred per cycle. We'd have to beat some BIG odds and get VERY lucky in order to have this scenerio even present itself.)

However, we wanted to make sure we covered all of our bases. Most Christians, especially Catholics and one of the reasons Catholics are against IVF, is due to believing that life starts the moment conception happens - exactly when sperm meets egg. Which means, even though those eggs are outside of my body, as soon as they merge with the sperm, they are now life. Catholics believe that wasting any and throwing any away is destroying life.

So what do we do if we get super, duper lucky and my one ovary gets a ton of eggs taken out during surgery, most of them live through fertilization and the days until transfer/frozen, and then we also get pregnant on that first cycle with twins?

We now know that there are Christian adoption agencies that deal with embryos. You can even choose who they go to. Ivf clinics also usually have lists a mile long of couples waiting for embryos. And the great thing is, chances are if a couple has struggled with infertility and has gone through all the crazy parts of ivf to get their baby, they'll probably be pretty awesome parents who don't take their new positions lightly. So it makes the decision of donations easier.

This would help with the Catholic church's stance against ivf as most of their problem is destroying life. It would be helping couples that are in even worse situations than us.

But the chances of having to do this are super slim. Having one ovary means we'll probably not get more than 8 eggs. Usually only half of the eggs make it to fertilization, and about half of those make it to 3 and 5 day transfers. So if we end up with two good eggs to implant in one cycle, we'll be lucky.

Yet in the offcase that my ovary makes me a freak again, our bases are now covered.