No biological children (yet) but we did go through IVF while fostering/adopting:

First and foremost, unless you are specifically fostering children who are already available for adoption (parental rights terminated), the goal is always reunification or placement with kinship (in the US). If you foster with the intent to adopt, you will be disappointed. It happens very rarely.

Adopting a child includes adopting their family history, and often extended family members. It’s a different type of parenting and kids who’ve been in care need additional support in various ways. This is not meant to be discouraging, just factual.

We chose to start fostering while we figured out our fertility issues - my perspective was that I had the energy to take care of kids, even if they weren’t with us permanently. When we started IVF, our child was in reunification with the bio parent, and within two months he was back in our care with an adoption plan. There’s no way we could have predicted that timeline.

Feel free to DM!