The Embryo in the Hallway

I was nauseous enough that a few people besides my husband knew early on, and like so many women who believe this until they don’t, I said I was pregnant with the implication that I would have a baby. She explained what was required to test embryos for the exact genetic mutations that cause our son’s disease, how we we would need to send off swabs of DNA from our living parents, ourselves, and our son to track the way our genes behaved over the generations to end up here, at our sick child. This was all assuming that the first part of IVF resulted in embryos that qualified for preimplantation genetic testing.

Source: www.thecut.com