As someone who just spent 9 weeks in the hospital with his wife in order to safely deliver his child, I’d just like to say that this sort of tech can’t come too soon. I’ve always wanted to be a father, but due to PCOS it was questionable whether it would ever happen. IVF finally worked after five years, and then we capped it off with a mega hospital stay.
Totally worth it, but I definitely wouldn’t choose to do it if there was any other option.
Point being, the default comment for reproductive research seems to be “Oh no.” And I’ve never understood this. Having babies naturally sucks. It’s difficult, painful, and something that people do because they have to, not because it’s fun. And in the worst case it can kill your wife, which was on the table for us.
Bring on the incubation pods, I say. We have six more embryos in cold storage, and it feels so surreal. We have the option of having a kid when we’re 60 — we won’t, obviously, but it’s literally a miracle that we could. (We’ll probably donate the embryos.)
We’re definitely living in the future, and I am so grateful. More advances in this space, please.
Totally worth it, but I definitely wouldn’t choose to do it if there was any other option.
Point being, the default comment for reproductive research seems to be “Oh no.” And I’ve never understood this. Having babies naturally sucks. It’s difficult, painful, and something that people do because they have to, not because it’s fun. And in the worst case it can kill your wife, which was on the table for us.
Bring on the incubation pods, I say. We have six more embryos in cold storage, and it feels so surreal. We have the option of having a kid when we’re 60 — we won’t, obviously, but it’s literally a miracle that we could. (We’ll probably donate the embryos.)
We’re definitely living in the future, and I am so grateful. More advances in this space, please.