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We are planning to have both biological children and to adopt. If I had trouble conceiving, we would not pursue any treatment and just move to adoption right away.

Ack, tough question. If money was no object, I'd like to think we'd try IUI/IVF (only w/ our "stuff," we wouldn't even entertain donor eggs/sperm). Since money IS an issue, I'm not sure. I can't wrap my head around shelling out $$$ for IUI/IVF w/ all the student loan debt I have. Not at this point in our lives, at least

It took time (financial stability) to work up to IVF. When we first started seeing an RE, money was tight, so IUI was all we thought we could afford. If they didn't work, I was actually leaning towards adoption and not IVF. Like I said, this was decided because of money. We figure if we had to spend a lot of money ($10k or more), adoption would be better. We were thinking that it would have a better chance at being able to take a child home. Versus IVF can fail. Plus, I was still new to using fertility intervention. Having to wait this long really changes your view on what you are willing try and give up to get there.

So we were on this possible adoption route for a good year. But, I could tell the DH wasn't completely sold on it. If we did it, we would want to see if we could adopt a Vietnamese child. Even if, we could adopt from VN (we can't at the moment because of adoption laws between VN and US), the adoption would cost us about $30k. Which sounded like a ton of money back then.
Anyway, I could tell the DH really wanted to have a child that was biological his. He told me he was okay with adoption but the subtle things he said showed that he would be more happy if the child was biologically his. (Adoption is still an alternative, if IVF doesn't work.)

Anyway, our financially situation has changed for the better and affording the $10k+ for IVF is more manageable now. And that's where we are.

I voted whatever it took since it took IVF to get our twins. Because we didn't get to that point, I'm not sure how we would have felt about donor sperm/egg. Most likely we would have adopted or if finances still allowed, looked into surrogacy.

It has changed over time but we will go as far as IVF, however I don't think we would consider donor sperm/eggs. If IVF doesn't work we would re-evaluated and look into adoption.

Everything but donor eggs and sperm. I could get pregnant easily with IUI and donor sperm, but it's not something we want to do.

I have considered embryo adoption. It might be an option for us if this last FET isn't successful.

Since we have a LO, probably only IUI and nothing further. Before LO we might have tried IVF once or twice.

I voted "whatever it took" because we did TI/IUI/IVF, although in reverse order as we slowly gave up. Before TTC I would never have imagined doing IVF but a few months in both a urologist and RE told us we couldn't have a baby without it, so we thought we didn't have a choice. The topic of donor egg did come up but we felt either both or neither of us had to be biological parents. I'm sure there are couples who could work that out but given my childhood without a mom, it would have brought up too many issues.

ETA: Another obstacle to having an egg donor was ethnicity - there are soooo few Asian egg donors out there. And when I looked at embryo adoption, it was virtually impossible to find embryos from interracial couples like us.

@winniebee: good point. I would not go through IVF again for a second baby. We have 7 frozen embryos and hopefully one of those will give us another LO.

@littlek: my RE told me I would not be good advertising for IVF. He told me if none of the embryos take then I could do it again and I said no thanks, not going there again. It really wasn't bad. I'm not a needles person and I got used to them. I did it once and once is enough.

@septca: for me, having gone through IVF twice now, I don't think I'd do a natural cycle, mainly because of how daunting the egg retrieval is, and how many embryos don't make it to the end. I think the odds would be high that you'd go through the whole process and then have nothing to transfer. Maybe I just don't know enough about it...

We haven't seriously discussed IVF, but I think we would pursue it. We're probably 2-3 more cycles away from having to decide whether we'll pursue IVF or move on to adoption.

We would go as "far" as IVF but I don't think we would consider donor eggs or sperm. If that didn't work, we would adopt.

@lilyofthewest: oh my goodness! 6 weeks in advance? Even for just a quick morning appointment? wow, Do you mind my asking what you do?

At this point, I'm not really sure what I would do. Before having D, I would have done IVF, but not used donor eggs or sperm. I don't think. But now that I have a child, I'm not sure how much fertility treatments I'd put myself through again. On one hand, I have fertility coverage (yay, Mass!). On the other hand, I have a child and I'm not sure how much I want to put myself through to have another, vs going the adoption route.

I voted whatever it takes, though I'd like to add within financial attainability like some have said. We actually did consider sperm donor before iui #1 because DH's sperm seemed hopeless, so if it turns out later there are abnormalities or something along those lines, we would take that route vs taking the time off to save for ivf

I personally am in the whatever it took category but my husband is not willing to go the route of IVF financially at this point which i understand and not willing to adopt so there you have it. I hope we won't have to get there.

@Ash: Yeah, I work in a doc's office/clinic setting -- which is to say I don't really have enough coworkers to switch with. Any day I'm off requires switching schedules around or canceling patients. But, fingers crossed, I won't need infertility interventions!

After 2 years of TTC, we were going to move to monitored cycles with Clomid. We would have discussed IUI, but it probably wouldn't have increased our chances by much. But that's it.