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| Louise Brown, world's first IVF baby |
Science celebrated a rather notorious anniversary recently and we must of course take note here given the mission to prevent extinction species humanity. IVF or invitro fertilization was deemed successful 40 years ago when the first test tube baby, Louise Brown was born. The particular post bringing my attention to the matter portrayed the date as a great victory for women and child birth. Of course, it is my burden to rain heavily on that parade.
After several years of pumping my body full of hormones for monitored cycles and treatments, my husband and I had spent nearly $50,000 without the joy of having a child. Unlike the pictures of smiling parents and their new babies posted on clinic websites and social media feeds, I came away from IVF at 40 with a battered heart and bloated body, a biohazard container full of spent syringes, and a folder containing fuzzy black and white images of embryos that were never to blossom into children.
-Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos
My friends, I know this is a difficult subject especially for you people going through the turmoil currently one way or the other. Infertility touches millions and over six million children have been born since 1967 by way of IVF or without benefit of sexual love. No matter how difficult, remember it is life or death of the species that is the issue here.
Somewhere on a social network or perhaps in this spider web of interconnected blogs I remember lamenting about not wanting to do any more research on extinction species humanity as the information will get sad and darker. My point can easily be made without such data. Also, humanity has been conditioned to see data as an authority replacing intuition and common sense. All that being said, data and hard evidence confirming my claims and suspicions continually falls into place as the journey continues.
Only recently did I learn that Dr. Sam Thatcher, who was the director of the Center for Applied Reproductive Science in Johnson City, Tennessee, wrote a damning assessment of the growing IVF field about the same time as I was having my first IVF consult. Twenty-one years after Brown’s birth, he raised concerns about the woeful lack of industry self-regulation and the creep toward profits over patient care. He noted that by the mid-1980s, more than half of the 100 assisted reproductive technology programs that existed at the time had not yet reported a pregnancy, even though they were making a great deal of money in the process.
-Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos
Ignoring difficult truth does not make the truth go away. Also, words bringing enlightenment to the problem cannot always be couched in feel-good warm fuzzies. Much of the inhabitants on this planet need a bold wake-up call or slap in the face that is meant to sting breaking the stupor. Snap out of it! Making babies without benefit of love smacks of reproductive desperation, greed, and delusions of godhood. It both diminishes and confesses an ignorance of understanding sexual love.
If the mother of Louis Brown was unable to give birth naturally, what are the chances that Louise will also be infertile? Why would anyone think her chances of giving birth naturally would break the chain links of infertility? At some point even science will fail and probably resort to cloning or growing children in the womb of a catatonic goat.
I will apologize for not being able to snap fingers and fix the problem pronto for the hack, quick-fix, or get-rich-quick generations. My book, my plan, the changes already being affected into the world shall take perhaps thousands of years to flip a parasitic paradigm solving a hyper-complex problem. This is not a job for the selfie-selfish. Warriors will awaken.
Could I help as healer on an individual basis? Yes, and I hope to do so at some point on this timeless journey. However, like President Donald Trump, help and improvements in your life do not always come as expected. Life, your journey is not always so easy.
Two books provide the path 9.20.18. It was never meant to be easy.
40 years later: First 'test-tube' baby optimistic for future of IVF
There have been several attempts at "industry" self-regulation. The primary example in the U.S. is the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART), in conjunction with the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) joining forces with the Center for Disease Control (CDC). There are many flaws in the evaluation of ART success rates worldwide and especially, in the US.
-Sam Thatcher MD, PhD
