40 Years Ago: World’s First “Test Tube Baby”

In July 1978, Louise Brown was hailed as the world’s first “test-tube baby,” born through the fertility treatment in-vitro fertilization (IVF). At the time, IVF was an extremely experimental process. Louise’s mother, Lesley, was told there was one in a...

Pathway2Family: 2018 Summer/Fall Issue

  Check out the latest issue of Pathway2Family magazine at pathway2family.org! Here is what is featured in the Summer/Fall 2018 issue: Embryo Adoption Frees a Flurry of Snowflakes – A story by Snowflakes adoptive mother, Emily Shew, who adopted 9 frozen embryos...

Seven Little Lives = One Great Gift

Allison and Brent met at their church, and two years later were married! Then baby-fever hit. The original plan to wait a year to start a family changed quickly. Their attempts at pregnancy success in that first year culminated in the sad diagnosis of infertility....

Divorce and Remaining Embryos

Unfortunately, many marriages end in divorce. And with more and more couples using IVF to build their families, there is an increase of divorce settlements and disputes which include remaining embryos. What happens to these embryos in an event of a divorce? Are they...

National CMV Awareness Month

June is National CMV Awareness Month. CMV, or Cytomegalovirus, is a common virus which closely resembles a cold. 80-85% of women in the United States will test positive for CMV antibodies, meaning they contracted the virus earlier in their lives (likely as a child)....
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