Do you ever think about how many people helped you conceive?

[konapoppy]

Since we did IVF and PGS, H and I randomly joke with each other about how many people helped get me pregnant. I wonder how many it would be if I added it up - 20? 30? 40? Between the doctors, nurses, ultrasound techs, phlebotomists, embryologists, anesthesiologist, etc. it just seems crazy. Am I the only one who thinks about this?

[loira]

Not conception, but now that you mention it I had a whole team of people helping me stay pregnant - not even counting my family and friends who were a huge support.

I have no idea how I'm going to explain where babies come from to A. Because of my time on TTTC, it's probably going to go like this: "when a couple loves each other very much, they get together with all the experts - doctors, psychologists, nurses, lawyers if adopting - and everyone does their part to make sure the baby is born."

[awick14]

I'm with loira, for me it's mostly people that got me to stay pregnant.

I also think about all the random places that I've given myself shots at. (While I was working on the ambulance and doing the shots between calls.)

I will have to remember your explanation loira. Lol

[cactuscookie]

We heard an advertisement on the radio for our RE, and we were all, "H! That man created you! He's basically God!"

[mpc]

Since the day of our IUI we've joked that there were 4 people involved in getting me pregnant - me, H, the RE, and miss October. ha. Of course you're right, though, the number is far higher than that.

[shauni27]

I mostly think about the incredibly kind people who have supported us through this journey. Like friends who let me crash at their home near our clinic since it was almost 2 hours from our house. And friends and family who loaned us money to cover the cost of meds. And the incredible women on here who sent us meds.

But if you think of the team of 2 RE clinics over 4 years, each with between 10-15 employees, the billing people, the pharmacists, the friends who helped me with the shots, the nurses and receptionists and midwives at our clinic now who let me come in whenever I need to for reassurance, the loan officers who we borrowed money from to pay for said treatments...it really is amazing.

H and I talk all the time about how this little boy is so lucky and spoiled already because it took so much work, money and man power just to get him here. It really is incredible.

[boiler717]

Yes I think it's amazing. All the people who dedicate their careers to this.
It also makes me angry when people say "only people who were present at conception can be in the delivery room!" Okay so shouldn't be there but the embryologist can?

[oneslybookworm]

Obviously not conception, but when I think of the sheer number of people who have seen my bits, well...oy vey!

[pooh8402]

10+. I didn't even start counting reception/billing people, or folks in the embryology lab (just the main embryologist that we met). Adding in those, it's upwards of 20.