From Janice & Fred

March 3, 2001

Dear PFC Staff,
  My husband and I would like to provide a letter for your web-site.  Besides the letter, we want to let the center know how much we appreciate being referred to Options for a donor selection.  Our first experience with another agency was very negative.  Options was a blessing and our donor an angel. Options continues to help us communicate with our donor.  Occasional donor contact was important to us and to the donor.  It is so nice to know we have a means of doing so and that the agency welcomes our correspondence.
   Four years ago, my husband and I could have never known what course our lives would take.  Yet, here we sit holding our three and eighteen month old son and daughter.  After all, I was 45 and my husband 52 when it all started.  I had two grown children from a previous marriage but my husband never had any children.  He so longed to be a father.  A good father I knew he would be, but, I was beyond childbearing years and never dreamed I could start over.  Hearing an ad for PFC, I asked an obstetrician I worked with if he knew of PFC and if he could recommend it.  He stated he had read about the centers high success rate and innovated techniques.  Being in good health, I decided to attempt to give my husband the gift of a child.  After being referred to an outstanding agency that helped us locate an egg donor, our new life began.  With the gift given by a loving and generous donor, our first child was born.  Embryos were frozen form the first donation and with only a seventeen percent chance that I would become pregnant form a frozen cycle, we beat the odds, and bore a second child three months ago.  I believe this to not be only miraculous, but possible because of the high standards of Dr. Sahakian and his staff.  We were extremely impressed by their professionalism and the knowledgeable care we received.
Sincerely,
Janice and Fred