Parents Gifted With Conception Pay It Forward to Other Hopeful Couple

LAFAYETTE, La. - Aug. 12, 2015 - PRLog -- In November 2014, Ashton and Jason Fox won a free cycle of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) at the Baby Steps: Infertility Awareness 5K, presented by Sarah’s Laughter and FertilityAnswers. As a result of the treatment, Ashton is now eleven weeks pregnant, and is due on March 3, 2016.

Sarah's Laughter is a Baton Rouge-based Christian Support for Infertility & Child Loss Organization that provides support for those struggling with infertility or the death of a baby. Every year, Sarah’s Laughter hosts the Baby Steps: Infertility Awareness 5K, a community event to raise awareness for infertility. At last year’s 5K event, FertilityAnswers was able to support Sarah's Laughter by donating one free IVF cycle and the chance to become parents to one couple struggling with infertility. Ashton and Jason were the 2014 winners.

Shortly after their win, the couple decided to pay their good luck forward by helping another couple in need have a child of their own. They set up a gofundme.com campaign and over the course of four months, raised money to help another couple in Sarah's Laughter adopt a child.

“There’s no way to adequately show gratitude for something like this, but we wanted to do something to show how thankful we are,” said Ashton. “The most amazing part of the campaign was learning that most of the donors were going through their own infertility struggles. It felt really good to do this with the help of so many families just like us.”

Ashton and Jason conceived with the help of Dr. Bobby Webster of the FertilityAnswers Network, who is board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology as well as reproductive endocrinology and infertility.

“Our experience with Dr. Webster and his team has been absolutely amazing,” says Fox. “To say that they’re a part of our family is an understatement. He’s so much more than a doctor and his practice is so much more than medicine.”

For more information on Sarah’s Laughter, visit sarahs-laughter.com. For more information on FertilityAnswers, visit fertilityanswers.com.

The FertilityAnswers Network is a Lafayette and Baton Rouge-based infertility health system with statewide reach. It is the largest network of fertility clinics in the state — serving more than two-thirds of Louisiana in over 40 parishes. It includes four separate, clinical offices with two state-of-the-art IVF laboratories serving a geographic area of more than 35,000 square miles. The FertilityAnswers Network has helped thousands of couples become parents, with more than 4,000 babies born.