When Marissa Alexander got acquainted with his best friend in the 3rd grade, he knew little one day he would marry him.
26-year-old and husband Ryan Alexander, married in 2020, and since then we tried to be a baby.
“Our dreams would come true. We want more to have children,” Marissa said.
In 2023, they tested with Vitro Fertilization (IVF). Although Marissa is young, no well-known health problems, the treatment failed.
“It was very difficult and this did not come out now,” Ryan said.
From the fifth day, Marissa and Ryan said none of the highest levels of embryos said.
Contribution: Marissa Alexander
But they were not ready to give up yet.
In the process of applying for financing, they learned that the second round of the IVF costs thousands of dollars. The couple estimates the price of the first round to $ 15,000.
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The province, IVF or Intrauterine insemination treatment (IUI) offers a one-time 50 percent payment of up to $ 5,000. However, the couple has 6,000 debt from its first treatment.
“We must choose our lives, mainly to experience our duty to have a child and have a child,” Marissa said.
But the New Year’s finances can change it.
In 2025-2026, in the new Brunswick budget, the year, announced more than $ 1.9 million to finance a tour of IVF treatment in every family.
“It means more hope for us so we can be a baby. It may not be possible for us. We do not know,” said Marissa.
“Even this kind of opportunity and maybe this is a chance to make reality, it’s just a kind of life changing,” he said.
In an email, a spokesman for the New Brunswick health department said that the financing announcement is expanding $ 5.000 worth of financing. From April 1 to $ 10,000 will cover 100 percent of IVF or IUI procedures to 10,000.
The Executive Director of Finance Canada, Carolynn Dubé, especially in the light of reducing the provincial birth rates, praises finance.
“We have been relevant to our province’s economic health and productivity rate; we have received a large number of information.”
“In areas where babies, born through the IVF, can organize two percent of the total number of the total number of babies, which are not considered inherent,,” he said.
And the problem is widespread. He says that one in six canadians can be overwhelmed by one, the IVF, which has an average of $ 20,000 in the IVF.
“The number one obstacle affecting productivity in people in Canada is the value of treatment.”
Alexanderers have a message to other families who fought infertility.
“We have a complaint with them, honestly,” he said.
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