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To: Ryan Plovie (Hijacked) who wrote (559751)	4/4/2004 4:10:24 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I feel for you, Ryan, and wish you and your wife the very best luck. My son and his wife had a hard time getting pregnant the second time (though the first time, it was immediate; simple chance seems to play a large part in these things), and my daughter in law took the meds, etc. Then, the month after they'd stopped the treatments, my grandson was conceived. And one of my best friends, who has always wanted children, didn't meet her beloved until she was 43. Now she's 45 they are going through what you and your wife are. I used to run the preschool program at a Catholic home for "dependent and neglected children." I would recruit volunteers from the community so these children, many of whom had been badly abused by monstrous parents and were difficult to manage, could have more individual attention. I had more than one volunteer who had been sent there by their doctors with the idea that being around children could be helpful with conception. (One woman did adopt, and I wonder if that was actually what the doctor had in mind.) I completely understand wanting your own biological child, of course. I will say that I know people personally who have had wonderful experiences with adoption. Before I decided to get pregnant with my second child, we thought that if there were unwanted children in the world, we should consider adoption. I wrote for information to an organization that advertised in the New Yorker magazine. To my surprise, we were informed that we could be considered as adoptive parents only if we were "born again Christians." I'm sure there were other places we could have tried, but I ended up getting pregnant with our daughter.