Ah, that's rough. I have a friend who just exhausted all her options that insurance would cover, and since she won't consider adoption (for reasons I don't really understand, but it's not my call) she's at the end of her road. It's been very hard for her. I had my own struggles with having kids, some of them very drawn out and emotionally wrenching (and all of them expensive as all heck) but I got there and I know that puts me in a different place.
All that aside, I'd have considered adoption -- and have days when I think I may still -- in a heartbeat if I wasn't a "bad candidate" by sole reason of being a single parent, and I have no doubt that I'd love any adopted child just as fully as any I popped out on my own. And, as has been said before, pregnancy can be kinda miserable. I was the labor coach for the birth of two of my friends' kids, and I gotta say the miracle of birth is a heck of a lot cooler as a bystander (for one thing, you're much less distracted) and I highly recommend taking any opportunities friends may offer to be involved.
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Date: 2010-09-06 03:29 am (UTC)All that aside, I'd have considered adoption -- and have days when I think I may still -- in a heartbeat if I wasn't a "bad candidate" by sole reason of being a single parent, and I have no doubt that I'd love any adopted child just as fully as any I popped out on my own. And, as has been said before, pregnancy can be kinda miserable. I was the labor coach for the birth of two of my friends' kids, and I gotta say the miracle of birth is a heck of a lot cooler as a bystander (for one thing, you're much less distracted) and I highly recommend taking any opportunities friends may offer to be involved.