Michelle and Tim: Our Family Journey
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Michelle and I need help starting our family! Help us raise funds to secure a gestational carrier for our yet-to-be-born baby. Family is extremely important to us, but for us, building one has come with a few obstacles.
Neither of our jobs provided us with IVF benefits, so last year I took a job as a cashier at Target in order to get the coverage we needed to start this journey. I helped customers, bagged items, and survived Black Friday, while Michelle underwent hormone treatment in order to retrieve viable eggs to be fertilized. Thanks to Target's IVF benefits after 7 months, we managed to store 5 embryos!
Now that we have the embryos, we need to move on to the next step in our journey, paying for a gestational carrier. Someone's going to carry our Target baby (with your help).
This is a very expensive step because we are in effect paying for someone to be our gestational carrier (legal, medical expenses) for 9 months AND covering their pregnancy care. Any bit you donate will go towards caring for the woman carrying our baby, so everything counts <3
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Timothy Sturtevant
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Emeryville, CA