Isn't it terrible, what is going on in the DRC?

, , You might not know this about me, yet, but I am very interested in Africa.

Therefore I was shocked to watch what terrible things are going on in the DR Congo every day.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/08/1340255

Christine Schuler mentioned that you all can help if you talk about what is going on there. This will hopefully increase press coverage and pressure on our politicians to do something about it.

Here is a link to another article on the atrocities:

http://www.glamour.com/news/articles/2007/08/reallifedrama

I don't really know what to say. It seems so cruel what human beings are capable of doing to each other... I wish I could just go there and adopt a girl to prevent it from having a destiny like this...

AF finally arrived this morning and I called the doctor's office. I will go in there tomorrow morning and then we will officially start our first IUI after three IVF attempts. Normally it is the other way around and you do first IUI and then IVF. But in our case due to financial issues, we will do it this way. As I wrote in an earlier post, I don't really expect it to work anyway as the chances are only 15%... But who knows. I am a little disappointed that AF came so late. If we wanted to do another one this year, it would have to be approximately on Xmas eve. I don't even know whether our doctor's office will be open that day. So it might be just this one... But hey, it is open season and we will be able to get out off our crappy health insurance.

No news from the adoption agency, yet. I am getting nervous that I haven't heard anything. I have to check with them that they received the paperwork. I'll do this tomorrow.

I am thinking about whether we should switch to international adoption. If we have such a hard time to get everything done before we move overseas, it might be easier if we just adopt from overseas. But I also really would like a newborn or an infant. And that seems not possible in an international adoption. Just an idea... If we find out during the home study that our time line doesn't work, we can still switch...

Back in town

So I seriously managed to keep AF away all week while traveling. I was just popping in one progesteron after the after. It worked well and this way we can immediately start with our IUI. But who had thought, that now while I am waiting for AF, she is far from visiting. I am supposed to call the doctor's office once she is here. But of course that will take forever...

My business trip went really well. But I am still glad I am back in town. I don't really travel a lot in my job, but somehow it always seems to interfere with our family planning. The day after our first IVF transfer I had to fly out to San Diego. Of course I was completely stressed out about the timing. Then I had put my progesteron suppositories in my suitcase and couldn't take one during the flight. I was so stressed out about it... No surprise, it didn't work.

No news from the adoption agency, yet. I sent our paperwork in last week before leaving town on Wednesday.

Thank you, Lori, for helping me with the link. I managed to change it in my last post. And it is fantastic to read your comments. It is so nice to know that I am not the only one out there that is going trough infertility. The infertile sisters here provide great support. But I wish we all could leave infertile island...

Sometimes infertility hurts the whole time and I am hurting just thinking about it. And sometimes I can manage to focus on something else instead of thinking about it the whole time. But it is still always there... Wouldn't it be nice to be wondering why you are late with your period, take a home pregnancy test, find out that you are pregnant and nine months later give birth to a wonderful, healthy baby. That is what happens to most couples. But about 10 percent of the population don't have that luck. I wish I was on the other side...