Dad, Friends Grow Baby Beards for Preemie
Friends show their support through a crisis in all kinds of ways. Some bring casseroles, some send nice notes to cheer you up, and if you’re Jason Sucharski, some grow beards.
Jason Sucharski’s son, Chase, was born months early, weighing only one pound and 7 ounces when he arrived in July. While he was being treated in the NICU at Sisters Hospital in Buffalo, Continue reading »
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Doctor Who Cared for First US IVF Baby Dies
If you have an IVF baby, or care about one, an important person to your family building has passed away. Dr. Fred Wirth, a neonatologist who cared for the first US baby born via an in vitro fertilization process, died Oct. 5 at the age of 68. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer.
It was Wirth who pronounced that baby, Elizabeth Carr, healthy and normal in a nationally televised news conference on the day she was born in 1981. As common as IVF is now, back then there were grave concerns about what would happen with these “test-tube babies.” Continue reading »
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