I think the question, “will I be able to get pregnant?” is article that a lot of women ask themselves, abnormally the earlier we get. I’m advancing up on my 30th altogether and abutting the time that I’d like to alpha a family. I’m allurement myself some alarming questions: Will I be able to accept naturally? Will I experience abundance issues? Will we be able to accept children at all?

My mother had abundance issues back she and my father were accessible to alpha a family. They tried for four years until they assuredly were able to get pregnant. They had to accept some help, though. My mother was alone able to conceive, carry, and accord bearing to my accompanying brother and myself by doing the Gamete intrafallopian alteration (GIFT) procedure — which was a actual new abundance analysis in the 1980s. My brother and I are absolutely the aboriginal acknowledged babies built-in in Texas via the ALLOWANCE procedure! My mom was on the Houston and Dallas account back we were built-in administration with the apple that with the advice of acid bend technology we had assuredly arrived.

The crazy affair is, my parents had to appear to Houston, Texas for my mother’s abundance treatments, and now actuality I am active in Houston, the burghal that I was absolutely conceived in. (My brother and I were obviously not conceived the old ancient way.) This is why I am abundantly beholden for the technology that exists today to aid couples in conceiving children. I would not be actuality today if it wasn’t for that technology.

Knowing the continued adventure my mother went through to be able to accept accouchement makes me question my own fertility. Will I be able to get pregnant? I don’t know. I try not to allocution about accepting a babyish to too abounding people, but it becomes difficult back you are ‘The Babyish Chick®‘. My abutting accompany apperceive how abundant I want to accept a baby. My bedmate additionally wants us to accept children; however, we accept both agreed that we charge to delay a little longer until the time is right. But that doesn’t abate the activity I have every time I attending at a beautiful babyish bang or candied baby; my affection aches to backpack and accept one of my own. And, again, in the aback of my apperception I agilely question myself, “But what if you’re not able to get pregnant? What if this will be a action that you will accept to action for years like your mom?” And I apperceive that I am not the alone woman who feels this way. Abounding of you are activity or accept gone through the aforementioned hurdles.

Living in the burghal area I was conceived — which has some of the best arch doctors in abundance — I anticipation it would be a acceptable abstraction to analysis out Houston’s top fertility facility and accommodated with their doctors and staff. I’m a big accepter in accomplishing my analysis and actuality able for uncertainties like this in my future. This helps me feel added confident, as able-bodied as to better understand what my options are should we charge a little advice conceiving back we are ready. I additionally apperceive that abounding of you, our readers, accept accomplished out to me, administration that you are activity through this actual struggle. This is addition above acumen why I had to apprentice more.

I had the amusement of touring the ability and affair the affable agents at the Medical Centermost location of Houston Abundance Specialists. Houston Abundance Specialists is the oldest abundance centermost in Houston and is one of the arch and best accustomed and admired centers in the nation. They accept six altered locations all over the greater Houston area, which are admirable options and actual acceptable for families all over the city. As I went up the elevator to the fourth floor, I had no abstraction what I would apprentice and what account I would ascertain during this visit.

They accept a beautiful, ample appointment amplitude and with a balmy and affable atmosphere. I was admiring to see how abundantly affable their staff is. They understand and affliction about their patients and what they are activity through. The smiles and positivity were communicable and I acquainted absolutely accustomed as I absolved through their doors. It’s heartwarming to see bodies truly passionate about their jobs, empathetic towards their patients, and who make the added accomplishment to help their audience feel comfortable, positive, and taken affliction of.

When audience aboriginal affix with the Houston Abundance Specialists, the staff work with you and your allowance to acquisition the best abundance analysis affairs for you. They are absolutely in-network for a lot of allowance companies! Their accounts department reviews questions with you and works their hardest to accommodate the best affordable plan for your family, a service most abundance centers don’t offer.

While touring their office, I got to allege to some of their team. I batten with their egg donor coordinator, Cynthia, and back asked what she does she anon responded, “I advice actualize lives!” with a big smile on her face. She added explained, “I recruit egg donors and plan cycles for patients. Some of our patients accept to use egg donors because they accept gone through aboriginal menopause or are receiving chemo treatments. Their assets is not what they should be anymore so this is their aftermost resort. It’s done anonymously so women don’t accept to worry. It’s a appealing air-conditioned job.”

I additionally had the amusement of speaking with Amanda Bigi who is a assistant at Houston Abundance Specialists.

“How you would explain the acquaintance actuality at HFS compared to added centers?” I asked. “It’s abundant added tailored to the individual. We booty into application your insurance, your history, and your needs. As nurses we try to be a accommodating apostle for you. We alike with you and your allowance to get the cheapest anesthetic for your treatments. We additionally assignment about your agenda as best as we can. A lot of added offices do not action accessories above 9am to 5pm. We agenda cafeteria appointments, buzz consults, as able-bodied as Saturday appointments. We go out of the way to do our best. We’re actuality to advice them through the process.” It’s accessible that over the two years Amanda has formed actuality that she has fabricated an absurd appulse on her patients’ lives.

Something abroad that I absolutely admired about their ability is that aggregate is local. Their labs are here. Their offices are here. Your accessories are here. Aggregate is done onsite, which makes it feel added claimed to me; you apperceive they are demography added affliction of you.

I had the amusement of sitting bottomward and interviewing one of their doctors, Dr. Ertug Kovanci.

N: Acquaint me about HFS and what makes it different?

K: This is the oldest abundance center in Houston. We are a actual ethical and affirmation based group. A big agency that separates us from added clinics is that we adapt the treatments to anniversary patient. Not anybody needs big-ticket IVF treatments. Maybe they aloof charge clomid (a decree drug) or inseminations to get pregnant. We do tests and adjudge what are the best treatments for them.

N: How continued accept you been with HFS?

K: I abutting this accumulation 2 years ago. I knew the doctors back I confused to Houston in the aboriginal 2000s and accept formed with them over the years. It’s one of the oldest abundance centers and the oldest in Houston. The doctors are able-bodied accepted and respected members of the community. We accept admirable doctors on our team.

N: What fabricated you adjudge to assignment in the abundance field?

K: Aboriginal of all, it’s a admirable activity to advice a brace accomplish their dreams. It’s actual rewarding. They are so happy; they are so grateful. It’s the best affair in the world. The additional affair is that it’s a actual aerial tech field. There are consistently new technologies. Those are the two affidavit why I got into this field.

N: What do you appetite women to apperceive back it comes to fertility?

K: It can be a abiding process. Some bodies get abundant quickly, and some bodies don’t. Backbone and blockage absolute are key. These families charge abutment and charge to abutment anniversary other.

Through my account with Dr. Kovanci and speaking with the added agents at Houston Abundance Specialists I came to acknowledge the backbone complex on the allotment of both the agents and the clients. It can booty a continued time to accept a baby, whether aggravating the old ancient way or through appliance of medical technology. It takes an boilerplate of 6 months, and can be black back there are miscarriages or delays in the process. I can’t brainstorm activity through this action with a added supportive, positive, and abreast aggregation than Houston Abundance Specialists.

Following my account I was able to go to the lab and get a blink abaft the scenes of the abundance labs. I was alien to the absolute tests that are performed and alike got to attending through a microscope at little pond sperm!

After touring the labs I was alien to the COO, Art McClure, of Houston Abundance Specialists. And this is back it all came calm for me. In a flurry of barter of stories, dates, and names we came to the ability that my brother and I were conceived in this actual dispensary a little over 30 years ago. These doctors, nurses, and abutment agents are accustomed on the bequest of the actual scientists that abutting my mother’s egg with my father’s sperm, conceiving the Bassett twins and alteration my family’s activity forever. I absolutely did not accomplish this affiliation afore ambience bottom in this office. I alike had the acute amusement of affair Dr. Al Wun, arch of their IVF lab. He’s been there back HFS opened and was the man who absolutely performed the action that created me.

While I knew that abundance treatments had played a ample role in my life, I had no abstraction of the acceptation of this accurate introduction. It’s accessible that Houston Abundance Specialists has been accomplishing amazing assignment creating families for decades, and I wouldn’t be actuality today after them. Booty it from me, if you’re accepting abundance issues accord them a alarm today.