#FightingForBabyHalliday - IVF for Bea and Lindsey

Insurance has denied our appeal for coverage for our very last IVF cycle, and we need your help!

We have one more chance at this.

Early this year we retrieved two eggs at our own expense to try to get some extra eggs to fertilize. We need as many eggs as we can get, as it's hard to get viable embryos. Unfortunately we did not know ahead of time that our insurance, United Health Care, would deny us coverage for another round, saying we need to use those two frozen eggs first. Here's the problem: we only have one more vial of sperm left. That one vial is one more try. Bea is transgender; after that vial is used, the door to having a biological child will be closed to us.

Our clinic, Generation Next in NYC, has been amazing. They've gotten more eggs than we've been able to get at the previous to clinics we tried, and we believe this is the best place for our very last try. They're working with us to give us a highly discounted cost for the cycle, but since insurance has denied coverage and denied our appeal, it will be out of pocket. Despite being a fraction of the normal cost, it's still much more than we have. 

We want our last shot to be worth it, but we need the money to actually do it. We're still trying to get an external review to get insurance to cover it, but the likelihood of that is slim-to-none and could take months, time we don't have. We've been at this two years — we've done 4 retrievals, had successful two transfers,  and two  pregnancies. We've suffered 2 losses. Those losses were anomalies that likely won't happen again, but we want to give our last try the best shot we can so we're aiming to have multiple embryos at the end of this cycle.

This is what 2 years and multiple cycles looks like.

Yearning for a child is like missing someone you haven’t met yet.  Infertility is like missing someone you might never get to meet. 

Will our baby be an Earth Bender or a Water Bender? Will they be a Rogue, or a Ranger, or maybe a Cleric? Will they love comics, cosplay, and games? Will they love something so hard they know it inside and out? Will they love something so hard that it hurts? Will they love and need their parents as much as their parents love and need them? 

Please help us find out! We've been together a long time, and been through so much, and nothing has hurt nearly as much as this hole in our life where the rest of our family should be. We know it, we can feel it. There's something missing and we know what it is but it's harder for us to get it. We've never fought for anything like we've fought for this, but we're running out of magic and time and we need help.

We have already sacrificed so much and fought so hard for our baby that doesn’t even exist yet.  And when we finally get to meet them, we will make sure they know just how much we wanted them and who helped to make their existence possible. 


Follow our journey with #FightingForBabyHalliday  and at Lindsey's Instagram 

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Thank you!!!