Lisa Bertagnoli wrote a story for Chicago Business titled “The Stork Whisperer”.
It’s about a woman in Chicago who’s helping infertile couples to find solutions for their problems. She charges a consultation fee between $3,000 – $12,000 each, additionally to the costs of any procedures that couples want to pursue, but her clients seem to be very happy with her services and she is an expert on the field who stays in contact with most of the leading egg donation clinics in the US.
"I was devastated and so was my husband after being told by my fertility specialist at age 38 that I had no option but to consider adoption or donor eggs (according to my doctor I was out of eggs and gave me 4% chance of getting pregnant and a 2% chance of carrying a baby to full term). After much research and dozens of hours reading infertility related articles and posts online, I have found your book! [...] After one month of trying I became pregnant and had a beautiful healthy boy. Nine months after that I did everything in your book again and after 2 months of trying I got pregnant again and gave birth to another perfect little boy."
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The price for a consultation seems a bit outrageous. I suppose that it’s a price that people are willing to pay so that they can have a child of their own.
I don’t know that I would feel comfortable going to this woman and I would definitely question her motives. Is she really interested in helping people, is she money-hungry, or a bit of both?