From Sheila & Michael

Dear Dr. Sahakian and staff,

  Hooray! We are finally pregnant – with twins!! My husband and I had been trying to have children for 4 years before you made our dream come true. We want to thank you for everything! We had gone to 2 different doctors, been on fertility drugs for over a year, and underwent 2 surgeries. We knew that to become parents we had to try IVF or adopt. We went with a local doctor and were unsuccessful with an IVF attempt, and I was adamant that I did not want to again go through the pain, anticipation, and headache of an IVF that did not work. Let alone the expense of the whole procedure, which is not covered by our insurance. We started to inquire with a couple adoption agencies, but it seemed applications, then they were picking only 30 couples out of 300 to go through the process. Adoption was also drawn out over several years. We had received a few calls on private adoptions, but they would fall through at the last minute. We felt that everything was working against us. Then I saw your ad in our local newspaper for a free seminar on how to maximize success rates with IVF. I thought that it wouldn’t hurt to at least attend and see what it was about.
  What we learned at the seminar gave us hope and inspired us to think about trying IVF again. The seminar provided us with the knowledge if immunology as it relates to infertility. This was something that we were never tested for the first time around. At that seminar, Dr. Sahakian talked about some problems we experienced and possible ways to avoid them. (We also liked the fact that your facility was so sure of your success rates, you were willing to offer a refund!) Are we ever thankful we signed up for that free phone consultation!
  The next few months were busy with obtaining our full medical records and undergoing tests with a local doctor. We found out that I had antibodies that could prevent a successful implantation and pregnancy, but was treatable with medications. Our hope started to rise! Finally an answer on why we failed before. We started the various medications and the countdown to California.
  We stayed in California for 10 days, with ultrasound, egg retrieval, and transfer taking up about 5 days. We were able to see the sights around town and go to the beach in our spare time. We were devastated to find out later that the embryo transfer didn’t work, but comforted by the fact that we had 19 more embryos frozen for future attempts. In my heart I knew that this attempt did not work because of 2 reasons my body was in too much stress from over stimulated ovaries and it simply was not God’s plan for us at the time.
  We waited a few months and went out to California again, this time for a "frozen cycle". I had to take most of the same medications, but since we already had the embryos, my ovaries did not have to be stimulated. We flew out Friday night had Dr. Sahakian performed the transfer on Saturday, and flew back home on Sunday. 14 days later, we got the good news that we were expecting. 3 weeks after that, we were told that there were 2 of them. So far everything is going great. Once again, than you Dr. Sahakian so much for helping us become a family. May you continue to help other couples succeed in having children when all else seem lost. God blesses you and your staff!
Sincerely,
Michael & Sheila