Well, after many sleepless nights, and lots of thinking and praying, we have made our decision. We will indeed harvest me one last time. We have entered the July cycle. If we are not fortunate enough to get a genetically normal embryo, then we will move onto an egg donor. This is a very serious and emotional decision I had to make; being the child will not be mine biologically, but I will birth the child and it will be our child. Biologically my DH of course. We just feel Sir Chance needs a sibling and this is the route we have decided to take. If neither of these options work for us, adoption will be our last resort.
Since I will be going back to work full time very shortly, this is the right time to try to get us another child.
I know on a mitochondrial level, the child's DNA will change and some of my DNA will combine with the child and it will be mine, but a normal DNA test will not detect these changes. Maybe some day in the future, with the advancement of technology, this DNA will show.
This has been a very difficult time for me emotionally. Weighing the cost of both harvests against everything else going on in our lives at the moment. We have things going in the right direction with the sale of 2 houses, so I feel God is telling me it's time, and with him leading the way, we will get our sibling for Sir Chance; who is 20 months old now!! Time is flying by too fast.
