My wife and I got very lucky. I happened to be in the DC area in the military during part of the 1st gulf war, and my wife was seeing a specialist at the Bethesda Naval Hospital to find out why she wasn't getting pregnant. They asked us if we would mind letting the doctors and surgeons do a couple procedures they were learning, on her, and all the infertility treatments would be free. The treatments worked and my daughter was born at Andrews AFB Hospital about a year later. They theorized that if they drilled a bunch of holes in her ovaries they would temporarily "kill them off". They watched them heal and when they were nearly healed they told us we had about 6 weeks before they went into hyper-production again. It worked great, and it was nice we could be a part of something that would be used to help injured troops.
The military does things like that every once in a while when they have forecasts that military members could be disabled/disfigured in a war so they practice all they can. They turn the "elective" stuff into their training. They also do things like boob jobs and plastic surgery - things they normally can't/won't do when our troops are not in harm's way.
My wife and I got very lucky. I happened to be in the DC area in the military during part of the 1st gulf war, and my wife was seeing a specialist at the Bethesda Naval Hospital to find out why she wasn't getting pregnant. They asked us if we would mind letting the doctors and surgeons do a couple procedures they were learning, on her, and all the infertility treatments would be free. The treatments worked and my daughter was born at Andrews AFB Hospital about a year later. They theorized that if they drilled a bunch of holes in her ovaries they would temporarily "kill them off". They watched them heal and when they were nearly healed they told us we had about 6 weeks before they went into hyper-production again. It worked great, and it was nice we could be a part of something that would be used to help injured troops.
The military does things like that every once in a while when they have forecasts that military members could be disabled/disfigured in a war so they practice all they can. They turn the "elective" stuff into their training. They also do things like boob jobs and plastic surgery - things they normally can't/won't do when our troops are not in harm's way.