Katrina Baby Noah Turns 1
By Duane Lester • Jan 16th, 2008God knows when I need some good news, because after reading the story below, the very next story I read is this:
Once a frozen embryo threatened by Hurricane Katrina, little Noah Markham — named for the survivor of the biblical flood-of-all-floods — celebrated his first birthday Wednesday.
In case you don’t know the story about Noah, here it is:
Five other embryos, including Noah’s, were among about 1,400 which The Fertility Institute of New Orleans had stored at a hospital that flooded when Hurricane Katrina hit on Aug. 29, 2005.
With power out and the city sweltering in the days after the storm, authorities used flatboats for a water rescue of the canisters holding the embryos.
The one that became Noah was defrosted and implanted into his mother’s womb in May 2006. He was among eight babies delivered from 59 frozen embryos implanted that year at the same clinic. Of the clinic’s 1,750 frozen embryos, all but 350 were at the hospital that flooded.
A little good news to even out the bad.
