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Family Building Friday: The Corr Family – Two Children with CF

  • 17. May. 2019
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  • Family Building Fridays

I was one of those children who when asked what they wanted to be when they grew up said a mommy. I wanted three children from pretty much day one. When I had my second baby I couldn’t have been happier. I remember so clearly nearly 25 years ago now walking down the street with...
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Family Building Friday: The Randazzo-Parrott Family, Pregnancy and CFTR Modulators

  • 29. Mar. 2019
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  • Family Building Fridays, Guest Column

I always hoped I would become a mother one day but never allowed myself to get my hopes up in fear of it not happening. When I was six years old my parents received the diagnosis that both of my younger brothers and I had cystic fibrosis. Our lives changed forever as we entered the...
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Family Building Friday: The Woodruff Family, Surrogacy

  • 08. Mar. 2019
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  • Family Building Fridays, Guest Column

John and I met in 1990. Yes, 1990, in Ms. Hairston’s kindergarten class. After one year of school together, I switched schools and we wound up in different grades. I remember seeing John around town, but we never spoke again until after college in a NYC bar where he came over to talk to me....
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Family Building Friday: The Albright Family, Adoption

  • 01. Mar. 2019
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  • Family Building Fridays, Guest Column

It was very clear to me early on that I wanted to be a father. The imprint was so strong that when I was diagnosed with CF at 15 my most salient concern was not that I had just found out that I had a shorter life span, but that I couldn’t have children. When...
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Family Building Friday: The Carfora Family, Surrogacy, IVF/PGD

  • 22. Feb. 2019
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  • Family Building Fridays, Guest Column

My husband, Jimmy, and I knew that we wanted to have children very early into our relationship and discussed how our family would come to existence at length. I have cystic fibrosis and I was four years post bilateral lung transplant when Jimmy and I started dating. Quickly into our relationship, I experienced some serious...
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Family Building Friday: The Walker Family, Pregnancy and CF

  • 15. Feb. 2019
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  • Family Building Fridays, Guest Column

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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Family Building Friday: The Neville Family, IVF/PGD

  • 08. Feb. 2019
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  • Family Building Fridays, Guest Column

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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