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Deciding what steps you’re willing to take to get pregnant is easier after you have a better understanding of the infertility issues you and your partner face. Most infertility treatments can be quite expensive, so check with your insurance company to see what it covers.

Making decisions on infertility treatments based on finances seems heartless, but if your insurance doesn’t cover a treatment or medicines, you could be looking at bills in the thousands of dollars.

The most common procedures to aid in pregnancy are the following:

 Intrauterine insemination (IUI): A lab tech takes your sperm sample, pulls out the best of the best, and adds it to a saline solution, which is then inserted past your partner’s cervix. This gives the sperm a far shorter distance to travel and a greater chance for success.

 In vitro fertilization (IVF): Sperm meets egg in a lab, and then the fertilized embryo is placed into the womb. Fertilization can take place by either placing a concentrated semen sample in a dish with the egg or via intracytoplasmic sperm injection, or ICSI. In ICSI, a single sperm is injected directly into a mature egg. Even with ICSI, fertilization may not occur, because the egg or sperm may be chromosomally abnormal, which in some cases isn’t evident just by looking at them.

Try not to make too many long-term decisions about how far you’re willing to go because undergoing fertility treatments is like riding a roller coaster — after you’re on, it’s harder to get off. Especially when it feels like your baby could be just around the next corner. Make decisions month to month and procedure to procedure to avoid stress and allow for an open, ever-changing dialogue with your partner.