Patient Stories
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Becoming a Mom Later in Life: The Gift of Egg Donation
The gift of egg donation For most of her life, having children was not a priority for Faith. She and her husband David were happily married, involved with their careers and just never got around to it. It wasn’t something they truly desired. “Pregnant women are cute, you know?” Faith laughs. “I just didn’t want…
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The Power of Hope
A couple writes their success story How do you say thank you to someone who has helped make one of your biggest dreams come true? Honestly, I do not know. My humble words will not adequately express the amount of gratitude we hold in our hearts for the TRM staff as a whole. We came…
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From L.A. to Chattanooga for Fertility Success
A success story written by our patient Let me start by saying that I live in Los Angeles, CA and went through several unsuccessful IVF treatments here in California first before coming to Tennessee Reproductive Medicine (TRM) for a very successful IVF treatment. I started fertility treatments at age 37. My husband and I encountered…
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With Faith & Trust, Couple is Doubly Blessed
The Talberts knew that starting a family as an older couple might not be particularly easy. Michelle and Tim each believed their biological clocks would soon quit ticking and the time to have children was upon them. As a nurse, Michelle met her husband, a cardiac electrophysiologist, through mutual friends. Both were on their second…
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Finding a Way Through PCOS
A patient success story After two years of marriage, my husband and I were ready to expand our family, however I was concerned about my PCOS diagnosis. I explained to my husband that it could be hard for me to get pregnant, but he did not believe that we would have any difficulty. Several months…
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Infertility, an Unexpected Trial
A patient success story Ashley and Jordan Allen never imagined that they would have an infertility story. They moved to Chattanooga when they were married in July of 2007, they settled into careers (Ashley is a recreation therapist and Jordan is a mechanical engineer), and expected they would become pregnant soon after stopping birth control in…
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My TRM Story: Praying for a Miracle
My OB/GYN told me that I was young and that I just needed to give it time. But it was hard to be patient. My husband wasn’t all that worried, but I freaked out a little more and more every day. At the end of the second year, I went back to the gynecologist for…
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An RN’s Infertility Journey
by Stephanie Kibble I’m a registered nurse who faced infertility and overcame the physical and emotionally draining challenges. This was a new area of medicine for me because I’m an adult cardiac nurse. It was a great learning experience and I had to research the basics just as anyone facing infertility needs to do. The…