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Like most couples, the Bielickis and the Burskis didn't need the newest assisted-reproduction therapies. That's just as well: these procedures have not entered the mainstream of clinical practice. Some, including R.B.A.'s egg-freezing technique. may never do so. A second patient in the Atlanta clinic is pregnant thanks to a frozen egg; so, reportedly, are three women in Italy, and births have previously been reported in Australia, Germany and Italy. But the success rate is still very low--only two births in 23 tries in Atlanta, so far--and the technique is expensive. So R.B.A...
...ages 50 and older have borne children in the U.S., and so have many more in other countries. In fact, the 60-year-old barrier has been broken several times. Last spring, a 63-year-old California woman named Arceli Keh gave birth (she had allegedly lied to the clinic about her age); so, in 1994, did an Italian woman...
After trying unsuccessfully for years to have a child, John and Luanne Buzzanca in 1994 arranged to have a fertility clinic combine an egg and sperm from anonymous donors. The embryo was implanted in a surrogate, Pamela Snell, a married mother of two, who contracted with the Buzzancas to carry the baby to term. But in 1995, a month before Jaycee was born, John Buzzanca filed for divorce and refused to provide child support...
...would not conceive. Not now; not ever. Perhaps because I lacked the faith, patience or need for a biological miracle, I was unable to revere the physicians as fertility gods. Rather than giving me hope, their ministrations only heightened my anxiety. I resented the hour-long trips to the clinic, followed by the hour-long waits for the needle, the stirrups, the insemination, any of which rarely took more than a few minutes. I hated being at the mercy of doctors, with their overbooked schedules and endless diagnostic tests, their pat expressions of sympathy and seeming incomprehension of what...