baby to be born in the united states conceived outside the human body. conception occurred in a petri dish. made headlines around the world and launched the modern day fertility industry in the u.s. since elizabeth s birth, secretaries at the eastern virginia medical centers in vitro clinic have received between 600 and 700 phone calls from couples wanting to join the waiting list. last december, elizabeth celebrated her 40th birthday. according to the most recently cdc statistics, an estimated one in six couples without children are infertile. it s no wonder that the number of people using assisted reproductive technology to expand their families has doubled over the past decade. i know what it s like. my husband and i tried for three years to have a child. two miscarriages and three rounds of failed ivf cycles later, i was emotionally devastated. until 2005 when ivf worked and my twins were born. and 13 months later, the bigger shocker, i was pregnant with my third ch
kids that age, i was trying to figure out who i was, got curious about my donor. growing up with lesbian parents, the norman boys always knew they were donor conceived. while older brother andrew has never been interested in learning more details, alex googled his donor, number 9623. he had lied about a lot of things on his donor profile that my mother had used and that i had used for medical information. a mentally ill ex-con lies to a sperm bank, creates 36 sperm bank children. he was a college dropout and had yet to earn his bachelor s degree, despite claiming on his application he was already working towards his phd. they learned the father donor had previously been diagnosed with bipolar with skits effective disorder, a condition that can be hereditary.