I recently received a mailing from Pope Paul VI Institute, where I studied to become a Fertility Care Practitioner, and I was moved by the following case contained therein:
The patient came to the Pope Paul VI Institute with a history of infertility. She had gone to an in vitro fertilization clinic thinking that that was the approach she would take. In the process of her evaluation at the IVF clinic, she had a diagnostic laparoscopy. When the laparoscopy was over, she was told that both tubess were obstructed at the fimbriated end of the tube. It is common practice for the IVF clinics to do a tubal ligation in cases like this so that the imflammatory fluid from inside the obstructed tube does not go back into the uterine cavity. In this patient, this was done by placing clamps over the right and left fallopian tube.
Thanks be to God this woman sought further treatment.
In her evaluation at the Pope Paul VI Institute, she underwent a second laparascopy. At the time of her laparascopy, we found that the ends of the tubes were perfectly normal and that she, in fact, did not have hydrosalpinges. But they did clip both tubes and they were now completely obstructed. In other words, they sterilized a woman who came to them wanting to achieve a pregnancy.
Pope Paul VI further evaluated and treated this woman, finding endometriosis, which was subsequently treated. They took the clips off of ther tubes and reconnected her fallopian tubes.
Pope Paul VI Institute is a fabulous institution begun by Dr. Thomas Hilgers in Omaha, NE. They have done amazing work in the field of reproductive medicine which is perfectly natural and works with the natural reproductive system.
I would imagine this is more common than we would want to imagine. Thanks be to God for the Institute; I have a new God-daughter thanks to them!
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Posted by: Jenny | February 27, 2011 at 10:40 PM