Gambling for One Turns Up Snake Eyes. Twice.

Posted on February 2nd, 2008

My wife and I did the whole in-vitro thing. In fact we did it four times. Three full rounds, with one round using our cryogenically frozen kidlets left over.
First round failed, second round failed, third round failed, and the fourth? Yeah, bupkis.
And then, we conceived without any intervention at all, except for [...]

Never say die

Posted on January 18th, 2008

In “Jurassic Park”, the innovative scientist and founder of the fabled dinosaur island tells unbelieving scientists, “Life always finds a way.” The same line could have been uttered by Trudi Siviter, a woman with only half an ovary who had all but given up hope of ever having a child after 2 ectopic pregnancies [...]

Why No Baby?

Posted on December 20th, 2007

I’m going to dive right into something very personal with you. My wife and I struggled mightily to have a child, so much so that we invoked the involvement of specialists of female torture called embryologists and other fancy names. Yes, we went down the in-vitro fertilization path, much to the dismay of [...]