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You can't go through IVF and still be 100% the same person you were when you first started out.

It's going to change you.

I'm sitting with Sydney in her home outside of Nashville.

She's holding her baby daughter, who's giving me sweet eyes and dribbling on her bib.

I know how lucky we are that we did have best case scenario, and I know the others you're still trying to get there, and I just really hope for the best.

My heart hurts for them.

Sydney's daughter's name is Story for the story she represents.

Sydney gave birth to her in May 2025, just a little over a year after the Center for Reproductive

Health shut down.

She was born from one of the embryos that Sydney managed to retrieve from the clinic right

before it closed and the state took over control of the cryogenic tanks.

We had gone back and forth and I was like, well, what if we name her story?

She is such a story.

We went through so much to get here to like this point from me having an atropic pregnancy to going through all the things we did at the fertility

clinic and she was our little embryo that could i will definitely share all the things that we went through

to have her one day and hope she knows like how wanted she was too. She's our best little sweet

story. We love her to pieces. And maybe here is where those old fairy tales return, the ones where

women sacrifice everything for a child.

For Sydney, her fertility journey was a wild and unpredictable experience. She lived through

a burst fallopian tube, surgeries, an egg retrieval, an embryo rescue mission, and multiple transfers before she got her happy ending.

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