They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos.
One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call.
In a freezer several hundred miles away sat a single embryo belonging to Harrolle and her husband. Once, it had represented a possible second child, but the couple had known for months that they wouldn’t be able to use it. After a rare and dangerous complication with her pregnancy, Harrolle couldn’t go through another.
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