Quote Originally Posted by Lord Sorril View Post
Interesting!

Thanks for sharing!

Just curious if you considered adoption?-->Instant kid with no wear and tear on the body?
Yep that was one of the options we considered, but we wanted to try this first. With an in-utero baby you control the environment, so I can make sure to get proper care and nutrition and all that. There is a lot of maternal influence through epigenentics, even if it's not my DNA I can still influence some of the gene expression.

And it's really neat growing a baby, you bond before birth. This is my third kid (other two are 18 and 15 -- previous marriage). I had very easy births.

My partner is adopted and has no issues with his own adoption. He's very happy with his family and never tempted to seek out birth parents. So if we had to go that route that would have been okay too.

The neat part is that our unused embryos, which are perfectly good, will be part of our clinic's embryo adoption program. there is a waiting list for good embryos, and the process to "adopt" embryos is much much less expensive than making your own (and of course some people can't).