Second Chances

I visited CNY Fertility Center last year in the hopes of becoming pregnant after having a tubal ligation. The decision to have a tubal came after a very unhealthy first marriage, and the subsequent feeling that I would not have more children. But…after I recovered from the emotional aspects of such a relationship, I realized that I wanted more children. I knew it was important to my current partner, and important for me, to be able to have the pregnancy experience that involved love & partnership. However, I still had the limitations of the very physical decision I had made.

We completed one cycle in December 2008 with a few bumps in the road. It did not seem as though my eggs would mature in time for the holiday, but thankfully they did. Then, we got into a car accident on the way to our implantation. Two embryos were implanted, and both took. But, in our 13th week, we lost one of the babies. However, it was that December 24th, 2008 that our now son, Brody Steven was successfully implanted, and it was on August 30, 2009 that he was born.

While I thought there was only one more pregnancy in our future, I am hopeful that the CNY team will be able to make our dream come true one more time!

I am so thankful to be able to have the opportunity to go on this journey with a new child, my partner, and my two older children. I cannot extend enough thanks to the staff, or Dr. Grossman, who met me, and helped me on that snowy, scary Christmas Eve day. Thank you & see you again, soon!

~B. Blaise

My baby celebrated his first birthday on Jan 14th

Dr. Kiltz,
I just wanted to update you on the beautiful life that you created for us! Joey has been a joy for us every single day, he is a very healthy and strong little boy! He has just started walking, and he always has a smile on his face. We will be eternally grateful to you, and he is truly an inspiration for people to never give up hope!
Thank you!
Nicole and Jon

Bundle of joy

Dear Dr. Kiltz,
We came to your office at CNY Fertility Center full of faith and hope. We were blessed, by the grace of Allah, with two beautiful babies, we wanted to share this joyful moment with you and your wonderful staff. I have attached a photo of the twins Ahmad(boy) and Nada Rasheeda (girl) to share with you. We are thankful and grateful for you have been part of adding this bundle of joy to our family.
~Birth date March 27, 2009 time 18:52 and 18:53

God bless you all!
Thank you,
Abu Bakr A.
Hayam Khalil and our beloved daughter Sarah Allam

The emotional roller coaster

At the ripe age of 18 I found out that I would never be able to conceive a child naturally. I never really understood how much of an impact that would have in my life until I finally settled down and wanted to start a family of my own. I never really understood the struggle that I was going to go through.

Here’s my journey:

I went thru, 3 Fresh IVF cycles & 4 Frozen all failed.

I had such high hopes with each and every stage. I was emotionally connected to each follicle, embryo and blastocyst. They were all my babies! I had names for each and every one of the surviving blastocysts. I had dreams of doing things with them; raising them, going to the park, teaching them to walk, hugging them and telling them I loved them. I would hang the picture of the blastocysts on the refrigerator and would talk to them everyday and say “I love you” before heading out the door for work. The devastation I felt upon receiving the negative pregnancy results was always unbearable. I felt that my dreams and hopes of being a Mother was taken away (yet again) with every negative result and my chances of becoming a mother was slipping through my fingers. What had I done wrong? What could I have done different? Why me? Why couldn’t I be one of the lucky few? Then the anger would set it in. Although it was an unfortunate thing to have to receive this devastating news, the only thing that kept me going and gave me some kind of hope was knowing that I had some frosties on ice (term used in IVF for embryo cryopreservation). This emotional roller coaster was going down hill but it would soon climb up again (I would tell myself). I wasn’t ready to get off this ride.

After changing clinics, I met with Dr. Kiltz at CNY Fertility. During my consultation I explained my journey (3 Fresh IVF cycles & 4 Frozen all failed) he asked if he could examine me (right then and there!!!). After my examination, he explained that my fallopian tubes may be full of hydrosolpinx (spelling?) and that could be the reason why the embryo’s weren’t sticking. He wanted to check and make sure: if his theory was correct, he would suggest removing my tubes and going through another fresh cycle with CNY Fertility.

Removing my tubes was the best thing he could have ever done for me. Not only do I no longer suffer from painful menstruation periods, my very next fresh (4th IVF) cycle resulted in a live birth.

~Cooper Daniel was born July 20, 2007

Dream come true

A little over a year and a half ago, My husband and I didn’t think we were going to be able to have children. After many months of waiting and being referred to a clinic in NYC, we decided to visit CNY Fertility Center and Dr. Kiltz. Within 4 months I underwent IVF and soon after found out I was pregnant. Everyone at the fertility center helped to make our dreams come true. On March 30th , I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Thank you to all who made this a success story. We look forward to coming back next year to try for another bundle of joy.

~Christine

Kaden is a big brother

As a continuation from my first story, here is a picture of Kaden, 2, and his brother Zackery ,who is 3 months in this picture. Do not give up faith because life does throw you miracles, my boys are proof of that, and worth the struggle. Although CNY Fertility Center did not have as big of a role in Zackery as they did with Kaden, without them chances of me being a Mom would be almost zero.

So, to all of the staff at CNY Fertility Center and Dr. Kiltz, God bless and thank you!

Doug & Carrie’s story

Doug and I were married in September of 2004, we knew that we wanted to have children right away so we started trying after a years of no results I went to my obgyn who soon referred me to CNY Fertility Center due to having PCOS. After one round of clomid and IUI I found out I was pregnant in April of 2007. Sadly I miscarried at 8 weeks. Doug and I chose to take a break from trying, We returned to the Fertility Center in October of 2007. After 2 more rounds of clomid I found out I was pregnant on January 14, 2008 a couple weeks after I found out I was pregnant we went in for an ultrasound and were shocked to find out that we were having TWINS!!! On September 8, 2008 Delaney Marie and Carter Timothy were born. Delaney weighed 5 lbs. 12 0z and Carter weighed 6 lbs. 5 oz. Words cannot express our appreciation for the role that CNY played in bringing our miracle babies into the world!!