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We are one of those odd couples…. My husband and I have a 24 year age difference. When we got married we planned to make a family. My husband has 3 children from a previous marriage, but had long since had a vasectomy. The vasectomy surgery had been close to 20 years ago. After vasectomy reversal, my husband’s sperm count was inadequate for us to become pregnant, so we saw Dr. Silber and scheduled IVF.
We returned to Dr. Silber’s office and received information on In Vitro Fertilization. We were placed on the ‘waiting list’ and told we would be contacted in the next few months. Much to our surprise we got a call about a month later that there was an opening, and we jumped at the opportunity!
Taking the medication injections was hard for me as I am terrified of needles. But, my husband’s calming voice telling me how wonderful our baby would be helped me through these moments of discomfort.
January finally came, and along with it our target dates for egg retrieval and embryo placement. I was terrified about the procedures, but the nurses and staff were wonderful about explaining things and they put me at ease.
After the embryo placement, we were overjoyed when we learned we were now expecting our first child!
Our beautiful baby boy was born in October, 2013 at St. Luke’s Hospital.
We owe our ‘ Miracle Baby’ to Dr. Silber, his office, our case worker Nicole (thank you for all you have done!), and Dr. Silber’s wonderful and helpful staff at St. Luke’s Hospital.
Words cannot describe how happy we are! Thank you so much for helping us become parents!
See you all in a year for the next one! :)
Infertile patients cannot afford to wait for treatment while their eggs get older.
Dr. Sherman Silber, Infertility Center of St. Louis, is offering video consultations for patients who need to plan now for their treatment while stay-at-home orders are in place. He is talking to and evaluating patients in their home to comply with social distancing measures.
Dr. Silber is discovering that patients actually prefer this method of telemedicine consultation over the conventional office visit. Patients have conveyed that “it is so much more convenient and less stressful” to have a telemedicine personal consultation than to take a day off from work to travel to the doctor’s office and sit with other nervous patients in the waiting room.
The COVID-19 pandemic is thus changing much of the way we will do things in the future, and for the better. “Our patients are surprisingly much happier with this approach. Of course, at some point we need to perform hands on treatment. But with this new manner of seeing patients, we can come to the right diagnosis and treatment plan for most patients more efficiently, quickly, and painlessly, with no loss of personal one-on-one communication.” This is a very welcome new era of telemedicine that has been forced on us by the current difficult times.
