Shannon Buck was starting to feel hopeless.

For four years, she’d been trying to have a baby with husband Ryan — but natural conception, which seemed to come so easily to everyone around them, and sometimes even accidentally, just wasn’t happening for the would-be parents.

So, in April 2024, the Austin, Texas, couple boarded a packed flight to Istanbul — joining men traveling to Turkey for cheap hair transplants and women chasing bigger breasts at smaller prices — embarking on a nearly 6,500-mile and weeks-long journey to undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments.

“IVF in America is just so expensive,” Shannon, 35, a health insurance agent, told The Post.

“I researched how much cheaper it is in Turkey,” she said. “I found myself making a slideshow presentation for Ryan titled

See Full Page