A.maz.ing March 1, 2007
It’s really dawning on me in a new way how amazing it is that Adam is a part of our family. Just to think about what all it took to bring him into this world truly astounds me.
It all really started with the surgical retrieval of Dan’s sperm. That in itself is something else. I distinctly remember personally driving the test tube of sperm from the hospital where the surgery was performed over to the lab where it was initially frozen. I kept thinking about how I held the only possibility of a biological child right there in my hands. Then that sperm had to be frozen and then thawed while not destroying it in the process.
Then IVF had to be a possibility. Well, more specifically ICSI was the key. Just over a decade ago we couldn’t have even attempted IVF since surgically retrieved sperm is too immature to fertilize an egg without ICSI. I’m so grateful for those wonderful advances in reproductive medicine.
Then there were our cycles. Oh, man. To think that it took 61 eggs, 51 of which were mature, with 44 fertilizing with ICSI, to produce 21 embryos worth transferring to find the 1 that would end up being Adam. Now that’s incredible. And what if the technology to freeze and successfully thaw embryos didn’t exist? Well, we wouldn’t have him then either. He was one of the last four in the deep freeze.
My pregnancy was fairly uneventful for a battle scarred IVF patient with multiple losses placed on blood thinners. His birth, however, wasn’t. Thank goodness hospitals and experienced medical professionals exist. If it wasn’t for their ability to get Adam breathing, well, I just don’t even want to think about that.
It’s just incredible to me that all of these things finally came together so that we could have our son. I don’t know if I believe in miracles, but I think Adam is about as close as you can get.
Adam, 7 weeks
- Posted in : our main man
- Author : amanda
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What a gorgeous little chunk! A miracle, indeed.
Congratulations on 7 weeks – woo hoo!! I meant to also say to your last post – can your doctor write you a scrip for an electric pump? That’s how I got mine.
Oh… a gorgeous little miracle indeed!
It is mindboggling to think about it, isn’t it? I feel so lucky that I was born when I was, too. He is so beautiful!
So gorgeous and so, so worth it all.
Wow Amanda- he is amazingly gorgeous! x
He is so sweet. he really looks like he is trying to tell you something in this picture. So adorable!
What a sweetie!
What an incredible journey Amanda. And he is so worth it! What a sweetheart Adam is!
Amanda — it is a miracle and truly amazing. It’s an inspiration to us still in the trenches :)
And what a miracle. It’s really amazing when you lay it all out like that in terms of # of eggs, embryos, etc. Miracle for sure.
He is adorable!
We have the same outfit for Cricket! I should post a picture! He’s a doll!
I thought I had posted already, but I guess not!
He is adorable Amanda!
He is adorable… and truly a miracle. Enjoy!
Adam is adorable — whether you believe in miracles or not.
But — for me — the word miracle is extremely painful. What are my twins (one stillborn, the other dying shortly after birth)? A curse? An anti-miracle? A sign that G-d hates me?
I guess I should stop reading baby blogs. They just seem to reinforce that some of us are blessed, and others of us, well, are about the farthest thing from it.
Niobe
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