Kim, 30
Windermere, FL
September 2006

I wanted to thank you for making this film, and I want to thank the couples for sharing their struggles publicly with others. Of course, I know that they had many additional frustrating moments, days, weeks, months, and years in addition to the glimpse viewers received.

I cried through much of the film. My husband and I are considering IVF as IUI was unsuccessful. I plan to show the film to him, and I hope the film will help him better understand how I am feeling. I shared the film with a co-worker who teaches anatomy and was a certified OB/GYN in Venezuela. He is presently working on becoming licensed in the USA. I will also share the film with my OB/GYN and RE.

I have so many emotions when I think of your film. I am unable to gather the words to say all that I want to say. I suppose the best thing to tell others would be BUY IT! Buy this film if you are struggling with infertility! It helps you feel not so alone. It helps you realize that your emotions are 'normal' and your not 'over-reacting' or 'over-stressing' or 'thinking too much.' The film provides you with information, but most important, it provides you with emotional information and support.

Thank you Technostorks! Thank you so much!

I just finished watching the film. I thought it was wonderful. I was in tears throughout most of it. I am amazed that there aren't more films like this out there -- this appears to be the only one!

Thanks for showing the emotional struggles of infertility. This is a film I would consider showing to my family to give them a better idea of what I am going through and what all of this means. The film made me feel understood, a feeling I don't get very often when it comes to this issue! I also learned quite a bit -- my husband and I have just started treatment and are doing IUI right now. We get 3 tries before IVF, which is not covered by insurance(I was very glad to see a discussion of that in the film as well!). So I now feel like if we get to that point, I am more educated going into it.

Thanks again for making this film. I deeply apprecaite it.

I purchased your DVD Technostorks last month, viewed it twice, and thought about writing you numerous times since. I want to thank you for getting the word out about the process of going through IVF treatments. Unless one lives through infertility, one cannot truly understand the rollercoaster of emotions that we experience.

My husband and I have been trying to have a family for more than 10 years. The last 5 years have been spent going though 9 IUIs and 4 IVFs (one IVF comprised of 7 natural egg retrievals since I don't respond to the stims). The journey has been speckled with overwhelming sadness of our first 2 IVFs failing, the 3rd resulting in a joyful pregnancy only to be lost at 8 weeks, and the 4th IVF to be positive initially but resulting in early m/c. Our next steps are undetermined as we are financially drained (insurance covers nothing here in CA) and emotionally spent. I'm sure you can understand.

Your video gives a wonderful overview of what we go through but understandably, it would have to be hours longer to encompass the entire process. The interviews with the 3 couples exemplified what so many of us feel and the clinical aspect was superb. Takes the romance out of having a baby but it is our reality! The only thing I would've like to have seen was at least one of the shots with the long 2 needle administered by the husband! (Just to show his daily involvement in the process.)

I thank you for making this video. I cried watching it as it brought me back to a time of great anticipation and hope for a family. It is now among my library of DVDs and I will gladly loan it out to increase awareness.

I wish you much success in your endeavors, and once again -- thank you so much for Technostorks.

P.S. I send you and your wife sincere congratulations on being a success story using IVF!

I am a 39 (soon to be forty) year old female living just near Pittsburgh, PA. My husband and I are in the midst of our first IVF cycle. To be precise I go for my egg retrieval tomorrow. I watched your Technostorks DVD yesterday for the first time with a box of Kleenex at my disposal.

I must say I was impressed with the production. It addressed a lot of the technical as well as emotional issues that we as a couple face while going thru IVF.

I showed the DVD to my doctor who runs an affiliate clinic to the Jones Institute here in Pittsburgh. He was very interested in seeing the DVD too. My doctor has met with Dr. Jones whom I also saw praised this production.

After watching the video I wished that it would have featured at least one "older" couple like myself since our odds are less than younger gals. However upon reading further about the making of the film I learned that it was tough to get a few couples to agree to be filmed in the first place. I can understand their dilemma. Upon embarking on this journey things have become very emotional for me and I am finding it difficult to talk to friends let alone strangers.

I just wanted to thank you and everyone involved for taking the time to create such a documentary. It helped me get thru at least a part of this journey and cleared a few more things up for me.

I loved what the psychologist had to say about the "common thread" that so many couple with this problem share. She spoke about how so many folks try to tell us to "just relax and it will happen". I never realized why such talk irritated me but now I know. It really is a "blame the victim" approach. I do not think folks do this intentionally but none the less it really does feel like they are trying to say this is "your" fault.

Thanks again.