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THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2023
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After 10 Years of Trying, Couple Turns to Embryo Adoption
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Rodney and Mary Leah Miller with their twins Mary Elizabeth and Dalton.
The Gift of Motherhood By Ana Good
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irmingham-area resident Mary Leah Miller will celebrate her first Mother’s Day this year as a new mother to 4-month-old twins. Mary Leah gave birth to the babies a few days before Christmas, following a nearly 10-year infertility journey she shared with her
husband, Rodney. “Like many couples, we thought that we would get pregnant – not immediately, but eventually,” Mary Leah said. “We knew it might take some time, but there were no issues on either side of our families that we were aware of, so we did not expect to have challenges conceiving when we made the decision to start trying to have kids.” After years of unsuccessful fertilization
treatments, Mary Leah’s path to motherhood involved a relatively unknown process called embryo adoption. The Millers’ baby boy and girl, Dalton and Mary Elizabeth, had, in their own way, also experienced a period of waiting. The babies had been frozen as embryos as part of another family’s in vitro fertilization treatments at around the same time the Millers began trying to start a family. See MOTHERHOOD, page 10