Tubal Reversal Testimonials

Testimonials from Dr. Berger's Tubal Reversal Patients

Posted via e-mail 06/25/2002

David's Story as Told by His Daddy

tubal reversal baby David I think David's story really should start in the winter of 1998. It was then that his mother, Abbi had her first surgery to reverse her tubal ligation. The doctor who performed her first surgery had no business doing this type of medical procedure. He was a plastic surgeon and Abbi was only his third patient. We should have known something wasn't right when he was not even allowed to perform this surgery in his hometown. He had to travel to a different city and county to perform this surgery. Needless to say the operation was not a success. It would be another two years before Abbi would be ready to try this surgery again. This time she did her homework and researched this doctor’s background. Abbi decided to have Doctor Gary Berger in Chapel Hills, North Carolina perform the surgery. He had (has) a very high success rate. Everything about the surgery the second time was much better. Abbi was able to get up and walk that afternoon after the surgery. We had planned this trip to be like the honeymoon that we really couldn’t afford after we got married.

tubal reversal baby David For the next seven months we faced disappointment after disappointment of learning that Abbi'still was not pregnant. Finally, in November, Abbi got a positive reading on a home pregnancy test. Besides the day that my adopting Allison became official, this was one of the happiest days that I can ever remember. Our doctor, Dr. Jeff Lawhead, one of the best doctors that I have ever seen, referred Abbi to Dr. John F. Murphy. Dr. Murphy always greeted us with a smile, always shook hands with us and always told us exactly how it is. And still to this day, I swear he looks like Robert Kennedy. Abbi had regular visits to Dr. Murphy, sometimes every week, sometimes every two weeks.

Abbi's first sonogram was on November 19, 2001. There wasn't much more to see than a little blob, called a "yolk sac". The second sonogram came unexpectedly on January 4, 2002, when we were not able to find the baby's heartbeat, at a scheduled doctor's visit. Dr. Murphy was very calm thru it all, keeping Abbi as relaxed as possible. The uneasy thought and feelings were racing thru Abbi's and my minds that Abbi was going to have a miscarriage, but thank God we were wrong! Baby's heartbeat was found low in Abbi's belly and beating strong at 167 beats per minute. The reality was starting to sink in for me that we were really going to have a baby! February 15, 2002, an unexpected trip to St. Johns hospital. Abbi had a real bad pain in her side, she was convinced it was not baby related but the E. R. doctor ordered a sonogram just to make sure everything was OK with our baby. There was a plus to this trip to the emergency room, as the sonogram revealed that we were having a boy. February 18, 2002, Abbi had a scheduled doctor's appointment at KU Med. Center. She was scheduled for an amniocentesis, a procedure where a small amount of amniotic fluid is drawn out and helps determine how great of a risk there is that our child would have certain types of birth defects. After discussing the risks with the doctor, we all decided this was a procedure that we could live without. The risk to our baby was too great, to justify the need for this test. So we settled for a sonogram instead. This sonogram confirmed for sure that we were definitely having a boy. We had already discussed names, if we were having a girl, her name would be Cheyanne Winnifred or Norma Jean Meredith, and if it were a boy, his name would be David Lee Meredith III, that was a given. The next sonogram would be on March 25, 2002, at around five A.M.

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