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Just a brief email as my eyes are starting to cross with tiredness, but after an epic 30 hr labour my incredible wife gave birth last night, at home and on the night of a Super Moon, to Dora Jean Laity-Gee, 7lb 9oz of the most beautiful red, sticky goo-covered delight that I have ever seen.

I was diagnosed with CML Sept 09, the day of our 3rd wedding anniversary. I'm on Spirit 2, Dasatinib arm, and I have responded well, despite getting glandular fever in January.

We had been told last year that IVF was going to be the most likely route for us to start a family, and as we embarked on it we were fortunate enough to get pregnant, and here we are today- sat in our lounge with the most magical thing I have ever seen.

And this was genuinely only made possible by the amazing people who work and fight for CML sufferers every day, developing new treatments and offering renewed hope.

I thank them sincerely, along with the kind supporters of this site who have given their time previously in conversing with me, without whom the happiness and impossible love I feel now for my new daughter would be little more than noise in space.

Hi,

Congrats! May Dora Jean Laity-Gee live a long and healthy life!

Regards,
Don

Huge congrats. Wishing you all a happy healthy life together. x

Fantastic news - as someone who 6 months ago fathred a child on Imatinib after fearing that we couldn't have more children I can only start to imagine your delight.

Obviously won't go into the sleepless nights, nappies, teething etc.  which are of course part of the joy :)

 

Rob

Congratulations to you all and wishing you many happy days (and not too many sleepless nights :)) to come.

jox

really lovely news. many congratulations on the birth of your lovely daughter.

Sandy

Congratulations to all 3 of you.

You are right.....the new generation of drugs and treatment make all this possible.

Very Best Wishes for the future !

A massive congratulations to you and your wife on your new arrival. I noticed that you state you are on the spirit 2 trial and taking dasatinib. I am also in the same trial and the same drug. If you don't mind me asking, would you mind answering a couple of questions? Me and my husband would love to have a baby in the future but part of the trial protocol states we should avoid becoming pregnant until the trial is over. Did you come off the dasatinb? Were you in remission before you started IVF? Were you allowed to return to dasatinib again? I hope you dont mind the questions, just that when I read your post I was happy to see somebody in the same boat as myself! Anyway, I hope parenthood is going well! Kind regards, alison

Huge congratulations, My wife and I are about to start IVF in Newcastle on May 11th and very much hope to be reporting back in a few months with some good news, stories like yours give us hope where there appears to be none.