This Couple’s IVF Story Is Captivating Thousands of Facebook Users
Lauren Walker and her husband are now expecting twins.
Walker tells ABC News that she and her husband spent about $30,000 in fertility treatments by the end of 2014. They gave it “one more shot” with a final embryo, but found out two days before Christmas that year that it didn’t take. “We just held each other and I let out this blood-curdling scream,” she said. “I was completely broken.”
They eventually decided to try again in October 2016 after taking out a $14,000 loan. They didn’t tell family members and friends they were trying, and surprised family with the good news a week before Christmas by handing them the pregnancy test wrapped in a bow.
Now, Walker says their long journey was worth it. “The reason why we were waiting so long is that we were waiting for them,” she told ABC News. She also ended her Facebook post with this tear-jerking message: “Duke & Diana, you are already so loved…Mommy and Daddy cannot wait to hold you in our arms, for we have carried you in our hearts for a lifetime.”
These Two Women Both ‘Carried’ Their Baby Using Reciprocal Effortless IVF
Here’s how it worked.
A couple in Texas welcomed a baby boy this past summer in a particularly innovative and intimate way. Bliss and Ashleigh Coulter are proud mothers of a little boy who they both helped carry by using a new method of assisted reproductive technology (ART) called reciprocal effortless IVF.
The method, pioneered by Kevin Doody, M.D., and Kathy Doody, M.D., the husband-and-wife founders of The Center for Assisted Reproduction (CARE Fertility) in Texas, is essentially a combination of two ART techniques: reciprocal IVF and effortless IVF.
Reciprocal IVF is a method in which same sex couples can both participate in the process, with one woman donating her egg and the other one carrying the baby. Effortless IVF, on the other hand, is a simpler, streamlined version of traditional IVF. The aim of effortless IVF is to make the process as efficient as possible—in terms of time, resources, and money—while still yielding safe and successful results comparable to those of traditional IVF, Dr. Kevin Doody tells SELF.
An Ob/Gyn Shares Her Journey From Infertility, To An Egg Donor, To Twins
In this moving essay, Shannon M. Clark, M.D., explains why she decided egg donation was right for her—and why other women in her shoes shouldn’t feel ashamed.
Board-certified ob/gyn Shannon M. Clark, M.D., an associate professor of maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch and founder of BabiesAfter35.com, knew she wanted to be a mom. But she didn’t anticipate that her road to parenthood would be so rocky. Clark talked to SELF.com about why she decided to use an egg donor, and why she wants to share what the difficult process is really like.
THE STRUGGLE OF INFERTILITY
Liz Marie Blog
You know when someone says to you… “It will be worth the wait.”? Yah, not always what you want to hear.. I mean hardly ever do you want to hear that. Sometimes it feels like they are comparing their wait to yours and telling you that they completely understand what you are feeling and going through.. when they don’t. All of our waits, wants, & weariness looks different. Other times it feels like they are just saying it to say it.. like it’s in this index of things to say to sad people who are battling a long wait, so the words feel empty & unnecessary.
SHARING MY INFERTILITY + IVF JOURNEY
ROM THE BEGINNING. TTC.
Where to begin? This is a lot.
Honestly guys, I have pondered how to structure this post. Share every detail? Go way back to 2008 when this all started? Then I realized… this post isn’t about the details.
This post is about sharing my story. Standing up and saying out loud.
From years of infertility struggles to five healthy kids: One mom’s uplifting IVF journey
When Hala Sabry-Elnaggar’s period didn’t come, she and her husband, Mohamed, thought they were pregnant. Though married and of child-bearing age, they weren’t thinking about kids just yet.
Hala, who was 29 at the time, recently graduated from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. She’d just moved across the country to start a residency at the county hospital in San Bernardino, California.
INFERTILITY + IVF
Eat / Sleep / Wear Blog
Writing these sentences almost still feels like a dream. Well, I should rephrase, it actually feels like a nightmare. If you or someone close to you has battled with infertility, I wish I could reach out and hug them through the screen. It’s something I would not wish on my worst enemy. The process is like a big rollercoaster filled with ups and downs, and when you are down, not only are you down but IVF punches you in the face. It’s a war on your body and your mind. I am trying to be calm when I write this because my mom reads my blog and she would be upset if I dropped the F-Bomb in every sentence. But let me tell you… I am holding it in.
Our IVF Journey
Lows to Luxe
I just wanted to say thank you for all the sweet and heartfelt messages you shared with me after last week’s post. It was undoubtedly one of the most difficult blog posts I’ve ever written, but my hope is that by sharing our story, I’ll perhaps provide some hope and comfort to those who are going through similar experiences right now.
This Couple’s IVF Story Is Captivating Thousands of Facebook Users
Lauren Walker and her husband are now expecting twins.
Walker tells ABC News that she and her husband spent about $30,000 in fertility treatments by the end of 2014. They gave it “one more shot” with a final embryo, but found out two days before Christmas that year that it didn’t take. “We just held each other and I let out this blood-curdling scream,” she said. “I was completely broken.”
They eventually decided to try again in October 2016 after taking out a $14,000 loan. They didn’t tell family members and friends they were trying, and surprised family with the good news a week before Christmas by handing them the pregnancy test wrapped in a bow.
Now, Walker says their long journey was worth it. “The reason why we were waiting so long is that we were waiting for them,” she told ABC News. She also ended her Facebook post with this tear-jerking message: “Duke & Diana, you are already so loved…Mommy and Daddy cannot wait to hold you in our arms, for we have carried you in our hearts for a lifetime.”
These Two Women Both ‘Carried’ Their Baby Using Reciprocal Effortless IVF
Here’s how it worked.
A couple in Texas welcomed a baby boy this past summer in a particularly innovative and intimate way. Bliss and Ashleigh Coulter are proud mothers of a little boy who they both helped carry by using a new method of assisted reproductive technology (ART) called reciprocal effortless IVF.
The method, pioneered by Kevin Doody, M.D., and Kathy Doody, M.D., the husband-and-wife founders of The Center for Assisted Reproduction (CARE Fertility) in Texas, is essentially a combination of two ART techniques: reciprocal IVF and effortless IVF.
Reciprocal IVF is a method in which same sex couples can both participate in the process, with one woman donating her egg and the other one carrying the baby. Effortless IVF, on the other hand, is a simpler, streamlined version of traditional IVF. The aim of effortless IVF is to make the process as efficient as possible—in terms of time, resources, and money—while still yielding safe and successful results comparable to those of traditional IVF, Dr. Kevin Doody tells SELF.
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