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In The End…It’s about Family….
October 16, 2007 - Tuesday
Posted by Pamela
I am just back from American Society of Reproductive Meeting in DC...it’s the big conference in the United States in the field of Reproductive Medicine.
Every year reproductive endocrinologists..nurses...mental health professionals...and allied industry (drug companies..pharmacies..sperm banks...catheter companies..media companies...etc) gather together at the annual meeting of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.
This is a place with prize papers are given...science is debated...and people gather to talk. It is as much a social event as it is anything else....and then there is the exhibit hall!
Here are the booths....exhibitors giving away everything from sperm pens and stuffed sperms (think Teddy Bears...only NOT)....to candy...to G-d knows what else…
One thing is clear...everyone is competing to get the attention of the doctors, nurses, scientists, practice managers and anyone else that is looking!
And yes, The AFA is there too...competing for attention in this sea of color and “look at me”!
And in the midst of it all...I was struck by one thing… a family at breakfast one morning before I had to walk over to conference hall. There sat a Mother...a Father...and two little boys...Under the age of three...I would even wonder if the older boy was nearer to 2 and a half..than three!
I sat there trying to talk to with Anne Adams, The AFA Director of Programing and Policy...but we kept being distracted by this perfect little family...sitting together eating breakfast...We sat there and watched Mother show her little boys how to fold their hands in prayer for their food...we watched them cut up pancakes..and pick up small bottles of syrup from the floor...and I was reminded of that time in my life...and how beautiful it was to watch this...and about that in the end...that was what this was all about...it was about creating families...all kinds of families...families that did look like this family...and families that did not look like this family..single mothers by choice..families built by same sex couples....families built by all the different kinds of reproductive options and adoption that are available today...all of these families are beautiful families..and all of these children are so precious.
And in the end..that was really what we were all doing at this meeting...that this was the home run....not all the noise that we make at each other...the air kisses...the marketing...the “look at me” that is so out there at conventions…
In the end...it’s all about family.
Until Tomorrow,
Pamela
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