30 year old embryos were born, DMV connection
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Anonymous
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/21/health/30-year-old-embryos-twins/index.html
"The embryos were created for an anonymous married couple using in-vitro fertilization. The husband was in his early 50s, and they used a 34-year-old egg donor. The embryos were frozen on April 22, 1992. ... The embryos were kept at a fertility lab on the West Coast until 2007, when the couple who created them donated the embryos to the National Embryo Donation Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, in hopes another couple might be able to use them. The five embryos were overnighted in specially outfitted tanks to Knoxville, said Dr. John Gordon, the Ridgeways’ doctor." The relevance of this news to DMV IVF community is that Dr. John Gordon used to practice as Dominion Fertility in Arlington. In 2019 he left the practice and went to Knoxville, TN to follow his Christian faith of saving frozen embryos instead of discarding them (at least this is what I heard), i.e. some thinks life begin at conception. He joined National Embryo Donation Center mentioned above. I think they are there to cater to bible belt's customer base. I consulted with him but he left before I started my procedure at Dominion. |
Anonymous
| Sounds creepy. |
Anonymous
| He was my doctor at DF and I really liked him (we did IUI and got pregnant so didn't do anything IVF-related with him). I found his move to TN and the whole mission of his new clinic to be kind of surprising, I never had any sense of these beliefs when working with him (to his credit, I suppose). |
Anonymous
| That’s so freaky! Imagine if you were like 27 and you gave birth to children who have been frozen 30 years ago. It would be like they were your children but they were also older than you. It’s blowing my mind |
Anonymous
| Dr. Gordon is one of the best doctors I have ever worked with. He helped us conceive our older daughter by IUI after I had nearly given up hope as a result of being treated horribly by the GW MFA fertility clinic. I returned to Dominion as a patient about 1.5 years after he left in 2019. It went downhill precipitously after he left and then especially after Dr. DiMattina finalized the sale of the practice to the private equity firm in the fall of 2021. He is a wonderful RE and the patients who find the clinic where he practices now to be the right fit for them are lucky to have him. |
Anonymous
| I used Dr Dimattina — everyone in our group got pregnant. Can it be possible that was 25 years ago? |
Anonymous
Your "group"? Did they group patients into support groups back then? In the DF waiting room they have photo albums with old reunions photos with IVF toddlers and mom/dad with early 1990's haircut. Not sure when they stopped doing that. Now IVF is more private affairs. |
Anonymous
| I wish I had gone there. Shady Grove was bad experience. |
Anonymous
+1. Just looked at their website "Southeastern Fertility does not offer any treatments that utilize donor egg, donor sperm or the use of a gestational carrier (surrogate). Southeastern Fertility does not offer genetic testing of embryos created by IVF." |
Anonymous
He is an awesome and kind person; a truly good human being. |
Anonymous
I agree! |
Anonymous
Only to the “right” kind of people, apparently. |
Anonymous
| If “life begins at conception,” those newly born 30 year olds will be able to celebrate their trip down the chute with a champagne toast. |
Anonymous
| Their biological siblings are older than their parents. |
Anonymous
+1. |