Ann Marie,

You don’t have a girl? I thought you did. Five boys!!! Well, I think I would end up with four boys anyhow. I don’t think that insurance will cover the IVF just because I want another baby. I would think the Insurance company would considering the cost over the lifetime of a CAH child would be more than to fork over a few treatments for IVF but there you go!

I also have a moral problem with doing IVF. I think that maybe by doing that and going out of my way to have a child without CAH, it would make my son, that I do have with CAH, feel inferior. This might just be in my head but I don’t want to chance it. I think I would have to wonder if I had CAH and then my mom decided to have an IVF done because she didn’t want another CAH kid. I would feel pretty bad about myself.

I really don’t think that CAH is that bad....before you all jump on me....I feel that it is treatable and there is so much worse out there.... My only reason for taking the dex would be to prevent surgeries for my child...that’s it.

Of course, as one geneticists put it , having a child is taking a chance anyway because you can’t test or prevent everything. If I can prevent virilization and spare my child surgery I will.

Sandra