Our Families
Dear ORM, letters & words from our families.
Patient Testimonials
The physicians and team at ORM deeply appreciate the many family testimonials and photos we have received over the years.
Share Your Story.
We read every email, card, note and letter, and share them throughout the office. We share in your joy and are humbled by the incredible impact of our work in helping to create families.
ORM Families
Whitney & Brittany
Whitney and Brittany always knew that they wanted to become parents, but they were concerned about the long-standing history of breast cancer in Whitney’s family.
Liz & Andrea
Andrea and Liz met in 2010 through mutual friends and have been together ever since. After they were married, they had their first son through IUI in Phoenix, Arizona.
Kelly & Kery
Kelly and Kery got married in March of 2012. They had been high school sweethearts, and knew they wanted to start a family immediately after getting married.
Cara & Jen
Cara and Jen met in 2003 and shared a commitment ceremony in 2006. A year later, they decided to grow their family.
Kelly & Charles
When you ask Kelly and Charles to tell you about their daughter Sophie, they trip over each other’s sentences.
Kim
Kim always knew she wanted to be a mom. There was no question in her mind that she would someday have a child.
Paige
Paige is a graphic designer from Portland who comes from a big family. She is also a five-time egg donor.
Lisa
Lisa always knew she wanted children someday. In 2010, when she was 32 years old, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Jeff & Chris
Jeff and Chris have been together since they were sophomores in college.
Erez
Erez and his partner have been together eight years. They celebrated a formal marriage ceremony in May 2013 and soon after, started to pursue their lifelong dream of becoming parents.
Heather & Brandon
Heather and Brandon met at a dance club in Cleveland and then married in 2008, spent a few happy years together, bought a home, and then decided to start their family.
#ORMBaby
At 9 weeks 5 days pregnant we have officially graduated from our fertility clinic! Baby girl is measuring right on track with a strong heartbeat. Two weeks left of meds and we’re back on “normal” pregnancy track, and almost out of the first trimester! So happy to see this sweet lady. We love her so much already.
Two families meeting in the park. One with their 5 month old, one 26 weeks pregnant.
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What if we told you there’s more to the story? The story of each of our family’s struggle to conceive. The story of meeting online through the shared connection of a fertility clinic. The story of becoming fast friends. The story of unconditional support through an insanely difficult time. The story of learning after the fact that our families will be forever connected by the generous gift of a donor. What if we told you our children are “diblings”?
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A dibling is the portmanteau of the terms donor + sibling, a word to describe the connection between the offspring created from a single donor and the families they help to conceive. Genetically, our children are half-siblings. This can be a scary, unknown part of assistive reproductive technology for those of us who need a third party donor to create a family. You really don’t get to know who else becomes part of your extended genetic network until after your child is born. But on a summer afternoon, we were sharing about our donor selection experience when suddenly it became clear that we had chosen the same one! (Cue a lot of screaming and tears) The shock and amazement that this one in a million chance would be happening to us has still not quite worn off.
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When we met in the park, we wanted to capture this moment of a new kind of family forming, a dibling family, connected by love, generosity, chance, and perseverance.
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What comes next for our kids? We don’t really know yet. Will we raise them to know about the gift of their donor and the unique and special connection they have to each other? Absolutely. How lucky they will be to have extended family among friends.
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📷 Special thanks to beckygstudios for bringing our vision to life.
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We’re not out of the woods, beta isn’t until Wednesday and we still have three weeks before we get to see our sweet girl and her heartbeat. But we’re living in the moment of joy and happiness knowing our little lady is snug in her mama. You are so loved, sweet girl. Mama and Mimi can’t wait to meet you in May. 💗
Cody Benjamin, we are obsessed with you. ✨
One week old and we couldn’t imagine our lives without you. Forever grateful and thankful. 💙
#ormbaby #ormfamily
Please just go get the damn vaccine so my child can chat with her grandmother in person.
Uma’s an IVF baby. She’s a product of science supporting nature. Which is what the vaccine does as well. It supports our body’s immune response.
Science + Nature = Miracles
#ivfbaby #ormbaby
Sophie Cadence Caraher is measuring perfectly on track at 6w5d with a heartbeat of 131bpm, and we are completely in love 😍💗🥰
Peepshow update 9 weeks 5 days... We graduated from #ormfertility which is bittersweet. That means we're released to go to the care of a regular OB.. we're no longer under the microscope of our Reproductive Endocrinologist's Team. We are still going weekly with my specialist here as he graciously offered some extra monitoring but this is a big step!!! Also, the SCH was gone at our last appt. They cleared me for my last two delestrogen shots last night and Friday and my PIO is done. That means no more pokey pokey every night, y'all!!! On Saturday, we're having a ginger reveal. Yes, you read that right. Lol 🤣 I don't hope for either sex, but I do think it's a lil boy. Either way, it comes with complicated emotions because all of our embies are the same sex. So, we find out what all of them are on Saturday. That also comes with a sense of loss that we probably won't have a baby of the opposite sex. It also comes with excitement for whatever our little ones are... Especially for my fiscally conscious hubby who understands that this means they can share clothes and toys 😂 No matter what I'm thrilled we've made it this far and I'm praying every night for a boring remainder of our pregnancy.
#hopingforamermaid #hopingforamerbabe #ivfjourney #ivf #ivftransfer #ivftransfersucess #fettransfer #fetsuccess #ormbaby #ivfwarrior #ivfadventures #ivfpregnancy #ivfsupport
11•16•2020: 15 WEEKS! Baby is the size of an avocado...thaaaaanks. I am actually allergic to avocados but not to Sophie! Not my usual bumpdate picture, last night I was wiped out but this morning I felt so cuuuute in my new amazon maternity pants. Who knew plus size maternity pants were so dang hard to find? I still can’t find any in black! Today is the first day in WEEKS that I feel normal and functional and man is it great. Heading into my OB appointment now! Can’t wait to hear little miss’s heartbeat!
