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A renewed hope of IVF is slowly growing.

Bill got a new job. It's not at an IVF-friendly place (though it was close, as the insurance is based in Illinois, a mandated state, and will cover IVF if the company chooses it. Ours did not.) However, it does cover infertility medications as well as diagnostics, which means we should be able to get our IVF consult for a price estimate and our few thousand dollar meds covered.  While it's not a big step, it is one closer to what we have been at (his job he's been at covered nothing but diagnostic)

Besides the insurance, Bill will now be earning nearly $10,000 more than what he made last year working 6 days a week. The $10,000 doesn't include the overtime he'll be getting, it's just straight salary, so he should earn more than that while only working 5 days a week.

He'll also be out of the dangerous chemicals that are in his previous job and could hurt fertility with long exposure. Now he'll be in a food friendly place and as a supervisor, so he won't be doing such strenuous work either.

So this new job means better IVF med insurance + more money to save for IVF + better work conditions.

We're going to see how much we can put away to see if we can afford IVF. We're also going to be making a consult, probably in the next month, to get a real estimate. Our estimated IVF procedure is different than most. Our doctor said a large sum of the regular cost (around 15,000) is diagnostic and meds. With meds covered and my diagnosis already well known, those won't factor into the money we have to pay.

We're also considering Bill taking a semester off of school once he finishes next semester (he'll be switching majors, so he'd only be skipping one semester while he figures out which of the work related/paid for schooling he'd like to venture into next) and one of us going to work at the new Starbucks that'll be only a few miles from us. They cover 80% of IVF, so it's probably our quickest option. They only do up to, I believe, 3 cycles, so one of us would only have to work 3 months there at part time.

All of this makes it seem like IVF may be possible for us in the next year or two. It's a really exciting prospect. This is the closest we've ever been to achieving our goal. There's finally substantial hope for us to try having another baby.