<p style="text-align: center;">I am currently reading a book called <i>Every Drunken Cheerleader...Why not me?  </i>In this book, the author, Kristine Ireland Waits, sums up her experience by the numbers:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">0 Insurance coverage</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">1 D&amp;C</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">2 Rounds IVF</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">3 Medical Doctors</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">4 Long, hard years</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">500 Options and decisions</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">6,0000 Hours of Contemplation</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&amp; 7,000 Tears</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Our story doesn't fit so neatly into this numerical system, but I'll lay it all out for you.  Our journey to raise a family began in October 2010.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">27 months trying to conceive or healing the body to try again (so far...)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">1 induction resulting in 1 live birth</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">1 miscarriage</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">2 ambulance rides</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">2 D&amp;Cs - dilation and curretage (1 emergency)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">2 retained placentas</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">1 blood transfusion</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">2 rounds of methotrexate</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">2 operative hysteroscopies</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">1 HSN (hysterosonogram)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">1  HSG (hysterosalpingogram)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">3 fertility massages</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">1 failed IUI (intrauterine insemination)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hundreds of blood draws</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Hundreds of vaginal ultrasounds</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Dozens of<a href="http://www.resolve.org/support-and-services/support-group/support-groups-list.html"> support group </a>meetings</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Thousands of dollars spent on medications, hormones, supplements and Chinese herbs</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Countless <a href="http://www.easternhealing.org/">acupuncture sessions</a>, <a href="http://www.yogabydegrees.net/">yoga classes</a>, <a href="http://www.pullingdownthemoon.com/">nutrition consultations</a>, <a href="http://www.onewayoramother.com/">therapy sessions</a> and months on <a href="http://www.weightwatchers.com/index.aspx">Weight Watchers</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">and starting in June 2014...</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">??? rounds of IVF (in vitro fertilization)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Even if we end up going the adoption route, we'll get there...  (to quote Jenilyn) "one way or a mother."</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> Because, yes, it is all worth it.</p>
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