Congratulations!
Thanks to President Trump’s efforts, your employer could soon offer expanded access to IVF and other fertility treatments through insurance.
Baby making is slowing down in America. So of course we need to have more to keep our society going.
But what do they mean “other fertility treatments”? Isn’t IVF the only option when couples can’t get pregnant on their own?
Is it possible something could work better for your marriage?
And are they really that effective?
Let’s take a look at these and see.
Promises of IVF
First up: the brute force method.
Hormonal birth control has been telling women’s bodies how to act for decades. And confuses the signals a woman’s body gives her.
To overcome this, doctors have to scrape the eggs out of the ovaries and inseminate them in a lab. Then, they have to supercharge the woman’s body with even more hormones for two weeks before implanting with a 30-cm needle.
Hopefully, this achieves a successful pregnancy. But even with all that process, IVF still only has a 20-30% success rate. And that declines with age and other health factors. Either way, you will still pay $10-25k for a round.
With a primary option like that, how can anything else compete?
Promises of NFP
But let’s suspend disbelief for a moment and consider what natural family planning can offer. Though you wouldn’t know it from the occasional hit pieces the IVF industry funds.
Less than $1,000 can hire a coach to train a woman on the information she needs to track her cycle. That tracking gives insight to how her body normally behaves.
And from that information a couple can make decisions on when to be intimate. Either making the most of or avoiding fertile periods based on their goals.
“You will never regret choosing sex with your husband”
Emily from @littleraeofhealth
Within that framework, even using the peak day, a couple still has a 27% chance of getting pregnant. And that changes with age and other factors.
Wait…it’s roughly the same without the added expense?
Why is IVF more popular?
Maybe a 20-30% chance of getting pregnant isn’t so much of an accomplishment as it is a natural limit. Like gravity.
You can sum up IVF’s popularity in three words: multibillion marketing campaign.
Do you remember that other recent multibillion dollar marketing campaign? That one for an experimental countermeasure that didn’t perform any better than natural immunity.
It only took wall to wall messaging, lockdowns, and coercive compliance measures if you wanted to stay employed to get you to take them.
So maybe the most visible and resource intensive method isn’t the best in this situation either?
I mean, it’s the same industry. That would be weird if it was only a coincidence and not just the way they do things.
Right?
What would you choose?
Have you ever enjoyed anything that was forced on you with a well-funded marketing campaign?
And do you feel appreciated when you’re broken down into your component parts instead of being viewed as a whole person?
The latest round of support from President Trump isn’t going to clarify this choice for you. You will still have to navigate the bombardment of new insurance add-ons to make the best choice to grow your family.
Just remember: IVF costs more for results that don’t work any better than cycle tracking.
So when you can have fulfilling intimacy instead of several heartbreaking rounds of prodding your wife with a 30 cm needle, you have to decide what’s right for your marriage.
Best of luck out there.
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