We love Magee and the team at the Center for Fertility and Reproductive Endocrinology. They gave us our miracle baby, Callum, who just turned two!
After seven years of trying to have a baby — including eight rounds of fertility treatments, three failed intrauterine insemination treatments, and a miscarriage — my husband Scott and I were told no one in our area could help us. That’s when we turned to Dr. Joseph Sanfilippo and the Center for Fertility and Reproductive Endocrinology at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh. It’s a four-hour drive from our home in Bradford, Pa., in McKean County. We live just a few miles from the New York border, but the drive was worth it.
In the summer of 2019, we started the IVF (in vitro fertilization) treatment process. Every other day for a month, I drove four hours each way to Pittsburgh and back for testing and treatment, including fertility drugs, bloodwork, ultrasounds, and monitoring, followed by egg retrieval and fertilization. In September, one embryo was transferred — and it took! After seven years of trying and heartache and loss, we were elated to find out I was pregnant.
Feeling his kicks and hearing his heartbeat were the greatest things. Callum was born in June 2020 at Olean General Hospital in New York weighing 8 pounds, 5 ounces. We now have this beautiful child and he is such a blessing.
We have two embryos left and we can’t wait to do this all over again with the same people at the Center. I even plan to deliver at Magee the next time! After all we went through, we are committed to UPMC and Magee. I’d like to give everyone there a big hug. They helped make our dreams come true.