I stumbled across this website while I was reading other infertility blogs (they're hilarious, honestly) and it looks brilliant.
If you've ever donated to anybody online who's running a charity marathon, or sky dive etc...you'll have seen these before. Instead, these are personal webpages that are set up to allow people to create an area where friends an family can 'donate' money to a certain cause. Whether it be an operation, family holiday, surprise birthday party etc...or as are becoming more popular, IVF. I know, I know, how terrible is it that us infertile cretins dare ask for people to help us PAY to have a child when the worlds population is becoming to high and overcrowding blah blah blah...but we are going to need IVF, its inevitable. We are going to have to pay for IVF (NHS is not great) which means we need to start saving now. All we are asking is that when birthdays and christmas roll around, rather than buy us socks or house things that we'll probably never use, we would really appreciate people putting a few pounds into our IVF savings fund. Simple as that.
I think it's a brilliant way to get people involved in what your going through and if you want to have a look and try for yourself, heres our page
Steph x
What a fantastic idea!
ReplyDeleteI have seen these sites for sponsorship, but would never in a million years consider starting one for IVF - definitely considering though. I think friends and family would love feeling that they had helped realise the dream of parenthood :)