The Hollow Heart: The True Story of One Woman's Desire to Give Life and how it Almost Destroyed Her OwnIn three attempts at in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) Martin Devlin lost nine embryos. But she also lost her marriage and her dreams of becoming a mother. The Hollow Heart describes Devlin's bewilderment at being diagnosed as infertile, the physical and emotional demands of going through IVF and the shattering fall-out when it failed. She also describes how her despair eventually faded, and how she learned to take pleasure in her extended family of nieces and nephews and, as her mother always advised, to count her blessings. And in enumerating them I am struck by this. Their quantity. |
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... embryo transfer stage of the in vitro fertilization procedure and I eased out of bed , moving tenta- tively to avoid ... embryos in my eyes , but babies waiting to be born . However " my husband , Brendan , whose impulses were tidier ...
... embryo transfer stage of the in vitro fertilization procedure and I eased out of bed , moving tenta- tively to avoid ... embryos in my eyes , but babies waiting to be born . However " my husband , Brendan , whose impulses were tidier ...
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... embryos was the surest path to motherhood . Freezing surplus embryos for future use would have been one solu- tion , but at that time the HARI unit didn't do this . I feel cross with people who say they're not opposed to IVF so long as ...
... embryos was the surest path to motherhood . Freezing surplus embryos for future use would have been one solu- tion , but at that time the HARI unit didn't do this . I feel cross with people who say they're not opposed to IVF so long as ...
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... embryos be experimented on at some stage or we wouldn't have IVF ? ' She didn't respond ; I had the impression I'd frightened the life out of the woman . I hoped they'd take them , though . I hoped she'd report the conversation to ...
... embryos be experimented on at some stage or we wouldn't have IVF ? ' She didn't respond ; I had the impression I'd frightened the life out of the woman . I hoped they'd take them , though . I hoped she'd report the conversation to ...
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