A thousand little lives. A thousand notes played. A thousand babies who were at first just hope – quiet, fragile, persistent.
They say life begins with the first heartbeat, but for some, it begins much earlier – in sterile rooms, filled with fear and endless waiting.
Some of them even welcomed it, with the support of an in vitro fertilization expert and doctor Tatjana Motrenko Simić, who was the godmother of the arrival of the much-desired babies into the world.
She also recalled her first success on TV Vijesti's Boje jutra.
"I wrote a project to establish a department in Cetinje, established a department and the first one there, I remember, was a girl. And after a certain time, you know how, you do something, but at a certain point you outgrow it because the state has its own mechanisms that I have nothing against, but they are quite suffocating. And then at one point we parted ways. The first child from our Budva center, his name is John, he is English and his mother was 44 years old at the time. And after the embryo transfer, I will never forget that, she told me that she was in a big hurry because she had a plane from Podgorica to Gatwick. She still sends me pictures of John to this day," says Motrenko Simić.
The path of in vitro fertilization is full of uncertainty, fear, and mystery, but everything obeys the physiological needs of the patients if the future parents are persistent.
"You don't have your own time. So, you can't plan, because the moment we start stimulating the ovaries, we all follow them. When it's the day for ovulation and aspiration, that's that day. There are other centers that adjust that," said Motrenko Simić.
Delayed parenthood, "extended" childhood, and inadequate nutrition may be reasons why a growing number of people are having trouble having children.
"People are becoming more and more reasonable and educated and this whole story is much closer to them and they want to solve their problem and have a child, so whether it will be with their own or donated material, it doesn't matter and I think that this is a tremendous progress for Montenegro and that it is one of the great things we have done, apart from all these others", said Motrenko Simić.
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