HUFFINGTON
10.07.12
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MIRACLE BABIES
pregnant. She was not.
A month after returning from
the failed trip, Matt and Cortney started pre-adoption parenting classes at their local hospital.
They planned to return to Las
Vegas in January for another IVF
cycle, the final one that would be
covered by insurance (her company’s plan covered a portion of her
treatments), but they were beginning to wonder if conception was
even an option for them.
The adoption classes were almost over when, on a November
day in 2006, Cortney took a home
pregnancy test. She watched the
line start to grow, tossed the test
on her bathroom counter and got
in the shower.
“At that point I was so used to
negatives, it was like ‘Whatever,’”
Cortney said.
A few minutes later she stepped
out, looked at the test and called
her husband in tears. A blood test
hastily scheduled for that afternoon
confirmed what the home kit had
told her: Cortney was finally pregnant, all on her own. And two and
a half years later, she gave birth to
a second child who was also conceived naturally, this time a girl.
The process
of in vitro
fertilization is
hit or miss for
some women
hoping to
conceive.