Hey all! Does anyone know which keywords may show me all play and take home events? Type of game (board,card, rpg) doesn't matter to me, and my budget is flexible since I'm trying to maximize my Gencon experience and have already signed up for Magic Pre-release and the Pokemon game, I wanna see how many of these type of events are still available!
I'm going through my options and currently doing IUI for myself at 30. I already feel deeply angry and very unhappy at becoming a parent in my 30s, being raised by older parents myself but it is what it is, I've gone to a professional, and we've decided it's better now than later to try for a biological child for me. I didn't freeze my eggs for that reason and my health testing thankfully came through really well to start to try and my doctors are really supportive of the plan.
IUI is kind of a step before IVF, which I'm sure everyone here knows does have reasonable failure rates- neither are a guarantee of a baby, and I feel mentally prepared for that. Science and biology is out of our hands after all.
At my age, I do have a LOT more options than I would even five years from now, and so I have considered beginning to save for possible surrogacy now, if not for my first child- then for a sibling as I know I don't want just one child and also know that a second biological child might not be possible.
So, I wanted to ask, what do you all think of older RPs? Would you ever not want to take on a surrogacy because the parents were older, even if we used a double donor embryo or younger eggs/sperm and that wasn't a factor? At what age would you consider to be too old and not want to participate in it?
I think I could have the savings and 50% extra of the amount I'm thinking to save, by 38 or 40 if I just redirect my personal savings, and maybe earlier if I locked in- by that point, I'd be looking into embryo adoption or using a double donor- would those ages be a strict turn off for anyone in here?
I'm just asking questions right now and not looking to make any kind of commitment, just gathering more information to make a decision, thanks!