Adam and I met the summer before my freshman year in high school and briefly dated for a few months that fall. We ended up breaking up but remained friends throughout the years. When I graduated from high school we crossed paths and started to date again and 6 years later Adam proposed and we...
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Megan Neville takes us through the IVF/PGD process. Our firstborn son Aidan was diagnosed with CF through newborn screening at 8 days old. The initial shock and devastation was overwhelming. I could not believe that this perfect looking baby we created out of love was facing this awful disease. As we learned the realities of...
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My wife, Megan, and I always knew we wanted kids. We also knew it wasn’t going to be easy. We knew there was going to have to be medical intervention—and we were OK with that. We’d known for quite some time that IVF was going to be our route. That’s the beauty of science. It...
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We are the Oneto Family: Ben, Beth and Tyler. Since before we got married, we always knew we wanted to be parents, but when CF is a part of your life, tough questions have to be asked and difficult conversations need to be had. Being that Ben is the one who has CF in our...
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I am thrilled to be introducing a new series on Gunnar’s blog, called Family Building Fridays. Family Building Fridays will be a series of blog posts, each authored by a different family impacted by CF, that will address a lot of meaningful topics within the CF community. We’re going to be highlighting families built through...
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