Lisa Stark, director of communications for Sher Fertility Institute, told USA Today the clinic was overwhelmed by the response the image has gotten.”We felt like it was a provocative, emotional photo that captures the joy and pain of IVF”, she said.
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Sher Institutes, has already had thousands of views on this image that was shared on October 5th on their Facebook page. The mother, Dayal said, had been through multiple IVF cycles over the course of a year and a half.
In the photo, the little girl is sleeping soundly on a white sheet while lying in a heart-shaped display of hundreds of syringes with empty vials to show just how far a few mothers are willing to go to have a child.
The photo has sparked an outpouring of heartfelt messages from other parents who have conceived through IVF.
The caption says that the picture “shows the true definition of love that went into making this gorgeous new baby girl”.
The post read, “Thank you to Sher Fertility St. Louis and Dr. Dayal patient Angela, who shows the true definition of love that went into making this gorgeous new baby girl”.
“The needles were the easy part”. It was the emotional struggle, the ups and downs, that really took a toll, ‘ she said. “I did IVF 4 times. More people need to see it…to understand it…and to learn how to support those struggling with infertility”, another commented. “Didn’t even tell my husband what this was”, one Facebook commenter, now the mom of twin boys, writes.
‘Didn’t even tell my husband what this was, I just handed him my phone.
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Former and current patients of Sher Institutes have responded to the post by sharing photos of the children they were able to conceive with the help of IVF. “They were worth every injection, every procedure, every mile driven to the fertility clinic!” one mother wrote on Facebook.
