Patient Stories

After years of struggle, Dr. Wachs was able to quickly identify the reason that Sarah and her husband were having trouble starting a family. Now they're a happy family of four.

After first trying Clomid, then spending $50,000 elsewhere on surgeries, IUIs, IVF and surrogacy that all failed, this couple turned to Dr. Pittenger Reid and RSC for a solution.

Dr. Wachs' patient Lisa Pontzious recounts her long, emotional journey of recurrent miscarriages, repeated devastation and, finally, motherhood.

Kelley's life took an unexpected twist when she found herself single at age 33. She made the choice to freeze eggs and preserve her dreams of becoming a mother.

After failed IUI treatment at their local fertility clinic, Alicia and David's research led them to RSC. Now a happy family of five, Alicia shares some advice and wisdom for those just starting fertility treatment.

Before they saw Dr. Hinckley, they thought they might be out of options. After a long struggle with infertility, Tara and Nick underwent IVF at RSC and had two children.

Egg freezing provides hope and preserves options for a working professional woman, who then found hope and support at RSCBA while confronting fertility challenges with her partner.

After years of saving for IVF, when Dayy and James found out that his insurance would cover fertility treatments they relied on the doctors and staff at RSC to help them get pregnant.

I have always dreamt of being a mother and started considering single motherhood after decades of unsuccessful relationships. I was afraid of doing it alone until age 35, when a serious relationship I thought was heading toward marriage ended.

When my husband and I met with Dr. Susan Willman, we knew we had found a doctor who was compassionate, but equally skilled, professional and, most importantly to us, honest. I wanted to start the diagnosis and treatment process immediately.

Sarah and Nathan decided to move forward with surrogacy where the Keeneys’ frozen embryo would be implanted into another woman’s uterus to carry the pregnancy to term.

"When you’re faced with something, whether it’s infertility, cancer or the scare of potentially becoming infertile from treatment, you have to plan and get ahead of it."

Joel and Maria tried many treatments to get pregnant without success. After trying frozen donor egg treatment with Donor Egg Bank USA, their family went from 3 to 4 with the birth of baby Alba.

As it nears my daughter’s first birthday, I can only be reminded of the hardship I endured to reach this milestone. She is the blessing and gift I never thought I would have in my life.

Right from the start I felt comfortable, as though I knew I would be in good hands. Dr. Rosenbluth spent time discussing procedures, explaining techniques and options with us.

"It still startles me that people make babies with sex. Privately. Easily. Fast. Strange as it sounds, I feel more changed by the trials of infertility than by the transition to parenting."

In 2003, Carmen was taking a walk with her children, when a drunk driver killed both. Devastated, Carmen and her husband fought through, and knew they wanted to become parents again.

“Seeing how many couples are affected by infertility truly opened my eyes. I saw what they were going through, and my heart ached for them,” Sarah says.

In her 20s and diagnosed with PCOS, one woman overcomes infertility and financial adversity to achieve her lifelong dream of parenthood.

How one couple transformed the shock of a cancer diagnosis into a different kind of family planning.

When Christophe Job was diagnosed with Lymphoma, he and his wife Kerry were determined not to give up their dream of having a family of their own.