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Difficult to conceive
Clinic offers hope to those with fertility problems
Dr.
Manubai Nagamani, left, and Dr. Amjad Hossain work at the UTMB Women's
Center in League City, which offers in vitro fertilization for those
facing fertility problems.
RIGHT: A small needle and microscope are used to inject sperm into an egg at UTMB's Women's Center in League City.
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The first time, Kristen Marullio had barely left the hospital when she stopped to buy a pregnancy test. The previous month, she had endured needles, hormones and a trip to the operating room hoping to conceive a child.
So when the phone call came later that day, on Christmas Even 2005, she already knew what the doctor would tell her: She wasn't pregnant.
"I was devastated," she said, her eyes filling up with tears at the memory.
The second round, Marullio had only been home a few hours when Nagamani called her from her car phone to tell her that this time, the treatment worked.
"I just lost it," she said. "My mom started hyperventilating."
Benna John, a 33-year-old dentist admits she put off having a family for a few years while she was in dental school. When she started trying at the age of 27, she learned her hormone levels were already pre-menopausal.
She went to more doctors than she can remember and heard the same verdict: use donor eggs.
But despite the growing popularity of doing so, John had moral and religious qualms with carrying a baby unrelated to her.
"I just couldn't do it," she said. "I knew, through my religious faith, I just knew I'd get pregnant".
For women younger than 35, like the 33-year-old John, about 75 percent of them can get pregnant with in vitro fertilization.
But for John, it took awhile to find a doctor who would even give her a chance.
She traveled in India to have one round done that was unsuccessful. Then, she tried Nagamani.
Now, she has a baby due in July.
"I never did want to give up," she said. "All I could hold on to was my faith in God. I knew, I just knew it in my heart, that God was going to give me a child of my own."
