Words | Eloise Stark
The Rise of Reciprocal IVF
Shortly before Faith was discharged from the hospital with her newborn baby, her wife, Cassandre, also pregnant, began feeling contractions. “Baby one was already born, and then I started contracting, thinking I was about to go into full-on labour. We went home, stayed for twenty minutes, then turned back around and were right back at it.”
Microscope view of medical fertilization process
Three days later, the Jacksonville couple were parents twice over, each having carried a baby conceived with the other’s genetic material. Faith and Cassandre are among a growing number of same sex couples choosing to have children through reciprocal IVF, a treatment in which one partner provides…
