2010 Archive

11.03.2010 Best Doctors

Congratulations to Drs. Awadalla and Scheiber who have been selected by their peers to be included in the Best Doctors in America 2011-2012 Database.  The Best Doctors in America database is a valued resource that contains the names of the best quality US physicians.  The database is put together based on an exhaustive peer-review survey by thousands of doctors.  Only those who earn the consensus support of their peers are included.  Inclusion in this prestigious group is a remarkable honor.  IRH is proud to employ physicians with the highest credentials.  Both doctors are also board certified in obstetrics and gynecology as well as reproductive endocrinology and infertility.

09.16.2010 IRH Nurse Serves as Gestational Carrier for Local Couple

IRH Nurse Serves as Gestational Carrier for Local Couple

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Meet Carmen Woody:  She is a mom of three blonde-haired little girls and she works as an infertility nurse. On the job, she experiences the joy of telling couples that, after a long wait and intense heartache, they can expect a new addition to their family in nine months.

Meet the Oylers:  After the Oylers'  failed in vitro fertilization attempt, their doctor recommended that they consider looking for a gestational carrier. Similar to a surrogate mother, a gestational carrier is a woman who carries a baby to term for somebody else. It was upon this recommendation that Woody decided to lend a helping uterus. "After so many negatives, they just were so positive all the time, and I've always thought about being a gestational carrier," Woody says.

And Woody's nine-month babysitting spree was finally over on Aug. 9 (yes, 8/9/10), when she gave birth to Gabrielle and Isabelle Oyler. The Oylers had a separate hospital room to spend time with their new family members, but they brought the twins to Woody's room frequently to spend time with her and her family. 

This once-in-a-lifetime experience definitely was worth it, Woody says. "I think it's blessed my family just as much as it's blessed their family," she says. 

08.20.2010 25 years and counting

Congratulations to IRH's Dr Awadalla for 25 years of infertility practice.  Dr Awadalla was there from the early days of IVF in the United States.  The first US birth from IVF was in late 1981 and Dr Awadalla began his IVF work in 1985 at the Ohio State University.  In those days IVF was a lot harder to do and a lot less successful.  After more than 2 decades of work, he is happy to say that we are now more often successful than not.  Dr Awadalla is grateful for the tremendous patience and courage of those first patients who with their doctors pioneered the procedure. 

Dr. Awadalla is also happy that he had an opportunity to meet in person Dr. Patrick Steptoe a British gynecologist who pioneered the procedure.