Expecting Miracles: On the Path of Hope from Infertility ...

THE MIRACLE OF PARENTHOOD AS SEEN THROUGH A FERTILITY DOCTOR'S EYESPBy the time a couple walks through the door at Pacific Fertility Center and meets Dr. Christo Zouves, they have been through the fertility medicine mill; they've consulted with other fertility specialists and been told they just can't have children. Offering a unique combination of hope, compassion, and cutting-edge technology, Dr. Zouves changes that for many of his patients. They often leave his care with their dreams fulfilled, expecting one child or more. But the paths that take these couples to his door and the treatments that follow are nothing less than miracle stories -- stories of hope, medicine, persistence, and pure desire.BR-- Dr. Zouves is the first to tell Stephan and Anna of Anna's blocked fallopian tubes, and her body's immune reactions that have hampered conception for seven years. An assisted hatching procedure that aids embryo implantation, along with drugs to calm her immune response, result in a baby girl two years later.BR-- William had a vasectomy at twenty-eight, just before his first marriage dissolved. But thanks to the revolutionary procedure known as testicular sperm extraction, or TESE, he and his new wife, Jamie, are the biological parents of two beautiful girls.BR-- Married since they were twenty-five, Judith and Joe started trying to have children just as they hit forty. In spite of every kind of fertility treatment, for ten long years, Judith miscarried every time she conceived. After a successful embryo transfer she and Joe become parents for the first time at fifty-one.PExpecting Miracles provides a moving, in-depth look at the options, the decisions, and the unexpected twisttwists, turns, and disappointments that couples experience as they work with Dr. Zouves. As he shares his own story and those of the patients, egg donors, and surrogates he has worked with, Dr. Zouves provides a rare view of the human side of reproductive medicine and all that goes in