Spring 2002 ~ Newsletter

Hope: While Having Cystic Fibrosis

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Amazing Story:  First CF In-Vitro Fertilization in Alabama

by Roudy and Traci Jones

I was told early on that males with CF, as a general rule, could not have children due to being sterile.  So I had all but given up any hope of having children.  But time passed and technology improved.  My wife and I had heard about in-vitro fertilization and thought we might be able to have a child by this method.  We first needed to know if Traci, my wife, was a carrier of the defective CF gene.  If she had been, we had decided not to have children biologically because the baby would have the disease.  Luckily for us, Traci was not a carrier.  So we decided to give it a try.  I had surgery to remove my sperm for the in vitro fertilization.  She then was implanted with four fertilized embryos and we waited for seven long days to find out if it worked.  Well, guess what?  It worked!  She was pregnant and we now had to wait for 9 long months.  We now have a healthy bouncing baby boy named Tucker Lynn Jones, a/k/a the “Tuc-man.”  So don’t let them tell you that miracles don’t happen.  Because we are now the proud owners of one!

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