The baby girl is pictured sleeping in the middle of the heart-shaped arrangement of syringes used during her mother’s IVF treatments, in the image shared by fertility clinic chain Sher Institutes on Facebook Tuesday.
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Angela wanted the photo to be shared on social media so she could pass a message to many more couples who are going through IVF to: “Hang in there”.
In the endearing picture, a little girl lies on a bed surrounded by syringes and vials of medicine arranged in the shape of a heart. Angela, who shows the true definition of love that went into making this gorgeous new baby girl.
Dr. Molina Dayal told ABC News that those weren’t even all the supplies the mother used to conceive. Indeed, IVF can be “exhausting” and “painful”, notes Fox 29, with multiple hormone and drug injections each day, as well as blood tests and the removal of the eggs.
“The needles were the easy part. It was the emotional struggle, the ups and downs, that really took a toll”, Angela said to ABC News. “I have an (eye opening!) idea.”, the parents behind Facebook page First Time Mom and Dad wrote. “And then by that time it was hard to get pregnant”.
Since being uploaded on 5 October, the photo has had almost 4,000 shares and encouraged hundreds of parents to share their IVF stories.
“I just handed him my phone”.
Denise Welch is hoping that by undergoing IVF treatment she will be able to have a baby with her new partner – at the age of 54.
Others have shared pictures of their own IVF “miracles”. “We felt like it was a provocative, emotional photo that captures the joy and pain of IVF”, she said.
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Jada Williams Jones wrote, “Man I wish I would have saved all my syringes to take a pic like this with the twins that Sher fertility & dr. Browne helped us to create!” “They were worth every injection, every procedure, every mile driven to the fertility clinic”.
