Our IVF Journey Begins

Our journey toward parenthood has officially begun: I was prescribed birth control pills last Monday (kinda funny I have to be on birth control to GET pregnant!). Here is the story to catch you up until now...

As you may know, up until recently Austin and I had the goal to participate in the money-back guarantee program at our infertility clinic. However, when Austin started teaching summer semester at WSU, he found out he would be teaching fewer courses than previously anticipated. This really put us in a financial quandary. Nevertheless, thanks to the level of money donations from family, friends, fundraisers, discounts from our infertility clinic and other resources, we have the financial means to attempt one-cycle at the infertility clinic. We are scheduled to go full-throttle during the month of August with medications and the whole she-bang.

I plan to write at least a weekly blog about the process for our readers. Please invite others that may have interest to read this blog to receive an insider's view of the IVF process: Two Infertile Turtle style.

Canvasing the Town

Friday we went door-to-door to promote our Scentsy fundraiser. We met some wonderful individuals and visited some family friends from my hometown. Our experience was pretty positive for the most part. The only really difficult door belonged to an 80 year old woman who lectured us on the joys of being childless. She is convinced her son is trying to kill her and said we should seriously rethink our desire for kids. That was an interesting conversation! We thanked her for her time and were on our way.

Going door-to-door is probably one of the hardest fundraisers we have done, but it was great to be able to spread the word about infertility and raise additional funds to help pay for the IVF medications. I'm glad we put our pride aside to canvas the town!

We are still on board to start our IVF adventure soon. We will be in contact with our clinic later this week to finalize dates of when to begin the process. As things unfold, we will continue to update about our experiences with IVF. Hopefully we won't share too much information, but we invite others to learn about the process of IVF along with us. Stay tuned....

July Scentsy Fundraiser and Update

Wishing and Hoping
Thinking and Praying
Planning and Dreaming....

Austin and I are getting closer to our first IVF procedure.:) We have decided to start our first IVF cycle either next month (August) or in September, depending on my cycle. We are excited to share this news! However, we have prayerfully been considering this past while if it makes sense to go into a lot of debt to afford the roughly $30,000 guarantee option or begin with the one cycle at a time option (about $10,000). We have decided to go with the one cycle at a time.

Now we know you are up to your ears with fundraisers! However, we are beginning to wind down and almost have the $10,000 to attempt one IVF cycle. Our previous post noted we have saved and fund-raised just over $7,000 to go towards our IVF attempt. Our goal is to raise at least another 3,000 so we can pay the fertility clinic in full for the August or September IVF attempt without going into debt.

With this being said, we have been sponsored for another fundraiser by Christine Alva-Hill who is an independent consultant for Scentsy. This fundraiser will run for the next two weeks, from now until July 26th. We invite you to share this site with friends and family members that possibly already purchase Scentsy products, but their purchases will benefit our cause to have children.

A few comments about what you can order: This is an exciting month for Scentsy fragrance lovers because Scentsy has brought back some of its most popular fragrances that were discontinued and they are available only this month. Some of these flavors are: Exotic Vanilla/Velvet Spice, Fried Ice Cream, and Tuscan Garden to name a few. You can order online at www.christine.scentsy.us. to place your order, look for Two Infertile Turtles and click on Buy From This Party.
Do know there are, however, other ways to help us raise money without purchasing an item...

If our readers are interested in helping us sell items, there are several thank you gifts available. The participant who sells the most gets a free Scentsy Warmer and Scentsy Bar or Scentsy Buddy and Scent Pak! An example of our sale goal for Scentsy is as follows: If a participant sells 5 Full Size Warmers, 5 Pug-Ins, 5 Scentsy Bars, 5 Room Sprays and 5 Scent Circles the total they have raised is $330.00. If 11 participants help reach this goal then the fundraiser will have raised $3,500. Scentsy would then contribute $1815 to our IVF! Let us know if you would be interested in helping us sell the Scentsy products!

Please look over the website and see if the Scentsy products can benefit your home and help us towards our IVF goal. If you, your friends, or family may benefit from Scentsy products, please pass the word along. Thanks and happy shopping!