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Testimonials
Our issues were extremely complex, having fertility issues on both
sides. Dr. Johnson and Jo kept reassuring us that it could happen if we
didn't give up, and it did. I could have never dreamed I would be sending
out pictures of my beautiful baby. Jo was critical in our success. I can't
even begin to explain how much she has done for us on every level. She
never seemed frustrated when she had to explain something to me for the
3rd time, she let me cry when the test came back negative for the
umpteenth time, she let me obsess and call her with all my questions I had
gotten off the Internet, she had limitless patience with
I am an old patient of Dr Rehman. He performed my IVF w/ ICSI last
year. I want to update Just wanted to say thank you so much for standing by me!!! Thanks, Dr Rehman. Dear Dr. Johnson and the amazing ORH Staff: We wanted to thank everyone for the care and compassion we so graciously received throughout our journey to becoming parents. Everyone from the doctors to Jo, Jill, the nurses and the staff making the office run like clockwork have been incredible! Even through the stressful moments and decision making, everyone had a smile on their face and greeted us as if we had been friends for years! So THANK YOU! Take a moment and enjoy a cookie and know that all your hard work, thoughtfulness, and caring go so far in people’s lives. You all are EXTRAORDINARY people. Dear Dr. Johnson and Staff: You have another success story on your hands! Thank you all so much for helping us with our dream. We have a TRUE angel. We made it to 36 weeks and have a had a few hiccups but nothing serious. Thank you for all your kindness. Dear Dr. Johnson, Jo, Shawn and the entire ORH Staff: Thank you for helping us fulfill our dreams. We now have three beautiful children! We feel so blessed! You were so positive and supportive. We will never forget you. Thank you for not giving up on us! Hello, Dr. Johnson and everybody!
We appreciate all supports you gave us. It is (indeed) a miracle to have a baby considering my age. Thank you so much! Dear Dr. Johnson, Jo & all the wonderful people at the clinic, 'Thank you''. You guys have done it again we are so grateful to have such wonderful people who helped us with their expertise, compassion & care. We cannot thank you enough for bringing these precious little souls into our lives. We are already blessed with a wonderful little boy, and now we are excited to welcome one more little angel. All our best wishes & blessings will be with each and everyone of you at the clinic. Dr. Johnson, We are so lucky to have a doctor like you on the eastside, we are very glad to know you. Dear Jo, Thank you for everything. We really appreciate all your help before, and after, the conception. Dear Dr. Johnson, Jo, Lindsay, Jubilee, Jeanette, Kat, Laurel & rest of the ORH family, We want to thank you from the bottom of our heats for helping us in every way to achieve our dream for expanding our family. Although the outcome was never in our favor, we feel great gratitude towards all of you. You’ve become part of our “extended” family & you will be missed dearly as we’ve given up on the dream of having biological children. We haven’t given up our dream of being parents however. We are praying that G-d meant for us to be parents through adoption-someday. Thank you again for all you did in helping others in a way that you do best. Always, T & S Dr. Johnson & staff, Thanks so much for helping to make this little miracle happen. We are forever grateful to you & your amazing staff! Our son is doing great. We are loving every minute with him. Thanks for everything R &J
We are looking forward to doing and FET with you. Thank you for taking the time to answer our questions regarding the cycle. Enclosed is a photo of one little angel. He is the light of our lives & we are forever grateful. We are so excited to try again & look forward to seeing you all soon! R & S Dear Dr. Johnson, I have been meaning to write and thank you for the two beautiful children you helped my daughter and son-in-law have. They had tried for many years to no avail. You were recommended by her doctor, and it was the best choice she made. This picture (not shown) was just before their 1st birthday; both are beautiful and perfect. Thank you again, Sincerely, B & C Dear Dr. Johnson, Jo, Lindsay, Shaun & the rest of the ORH staff, Thank you so much for your support in our efforts to add to our family over the last year! While things didn't turn out the way we had anticipated, we never lost hope. We decided to pursue adoption and just completed our home study. We will be adopting from Guatemala and hope to have a child by fall 2006. The positive attitude of your entire team was amazing and we are so thankful we went through this experience with you and your staff. Thanks again C & B December 2005 Dear Dr. Johnson, Jo and Lindsay, It was seven years ago that my husband and I first visited your office with hopes of having a child. Never did we imagine that we would have three! We welcomed our son into our lives on November 18th, His conception came without your assistance but I an so thankful that we needed your assistance for our first two. I was initially seen by a family practitioner to confirm my pregnancy. She gave little reassurance that my pregnancy was viable. I contacted your office after leaving hers. Your office responded to me so differently scheduling blood tests, follow up ultrasounds along with drug therapy. I realize that you cannot guarantee any pregnancy will hold but it gave me hope after each visit and strength that I was doing everything I could to ensure that the pregnancy progressed. He was induced 3 weeks early to ensure that I would not deliver in the car... I seem to be quite efficient at delivering. After 2-1/2 hours of labor, our son was welcomed to the world. The doctor made the room this time but just barely. The nurse was literally holding him in telling me that I was not going to push him out until the doctor arrived. She was quite convincing. Our son is a wonderful baby and is well loved by his big sisters. We have so much to be thankful for this holiday season. It seems only appropriate to start with a special 'thanks' the professional family that made our family possible. Many, many thanks for your caring nature, your outstanding medical care and the joy you have brought to our lives. Peace and Health to your families this holiday season. Merrily, merrily, M & M Hi, ORH,
Love, B
Dear Dr. Johnson’s Office, First I want to apologize for taking so long to get this to you. I am sure those of you with kids can understand how hard it is to find time to do anything. Well, after 3 long years I have really come to love you guys and not that we have been blessed with a little angel I am really going to miss all of you. I swear ORH was a second home for me. But maybe that was because I was there forever. I can’t thank all of you enough for your friendship, your support, and for helping in making our dreams come true. Our lives have never been more complete than they are now. Our daughter blessed us with her birth 2 ½ years ago and now our newest addition has completed our family. It was so great to finally experience pregnancy, labor and birth. We are so glad to have been able to share this amazing experience with all of you. We definitely couldn’t have done it without you. Jo, I want to really thank you for all of your patience and support. You are an amazing person and it is going to be really hard not seeing you. I don’t know that I could have done this without your help. The past three years have been very stressful and emotional for me in dealing with the fertility issues and you never let me down. Thank you for understanding when I had a million and one questions, thank you for letting me cry when I needed to , and thank you for taking the time to develop a personal relationship with me. You will never know just how much you have impacted my life and I can never thank you enough. Please just know what an honor it is for me to have given my daughter your name. We will never forget you and our daughter will always know what a miracle she is and the people who helped in making her life possible. Love, N Dear Dr.Johnson, Jo, Emily, and the rest of the awesome staff, Thank you for all your care. I am now 24 weeks along and so excited about this baby. We wish you many blessings, Dear Dr. Johnson, Jo, and everyone else -- We wanted to let you know of the arrival of our twins!! It was wonderful to finally meet them, after the last few months of the pregnancy were made more challenging by gestational diabetes, early contractions, and mild pregnancy induced hypertension. Fortunately everyone was healthy, and now they are growing well (both were over 6 pounds by their one month checkup). We wanted to thank you all for everything you did to help make these two little blessings happen! It was a long, hard road, and we were getting to our last hope of ever having children. Thank you so much for your professionalism, persistence, honest encouragement, and great skill in this difficult process. Even if the outcome had been different, we still would have been very satisfied with the treatment we received. Thankfully though, we were finally granted our little miracles, and now are enjoying the many challenges of parenthood! Sincerely, Dear Miracle Workers, I'm writing this letter to personally thank every single person at Overlake Reproductive Health. Every person there had a hand in our small miracle that entered the world on November 1st, 2003. She was 7 pounds 13 oz. We can't even begin to put into words how thankful we are to begin the next step in our life. Thank you for your caring smiling faces every time we came in to the office when we so often felt very vulnerable and sometimes kind of weak. Thank you for your undying support and optimistic atmosphere which made going through such a rigorous schedule seem like smooth sailing. Your office truly gave us the best present anyone could ever have and we will remember you all forever. Thank You. Yours truly, Dear Dr. Johnson & staff, Greetings from Tokyo. We finally had a baby in June 2004, through IUI. He is lovely and healthy boy. Thank you again for your successful operation and all your help. Best wishes for the holidays and New Year to you all. Dear Dr. Johnson, We wanted to introduce you to our new daughter born December 2nd, 2003. Without your help, neither our little girl nor our little 2-1/2 year old boy would be here today. One HSG was all it took to open up my stubborn tubes. With my daughter two HSG's didn't do the trick, but then a tubal cannulation was what you called for. What a miracle with only one tube able to be opened our little girl came into this world. Thank you also for helping us work with the insurance company to get the costs covered. It made a big difference. We can not express our gratitude enough. We so appreciated you walking us through the process with both our children, moving one step at a time, carefully, to help us with our dream of having children. Warmest wishes, Dear Dr. Johnson, Jo, Jubilee, Emily, and ORH Staff, Thanks to your help... we were blessed with twins on May 10th, which happens to be my Dad's birthday too. The were born within a minute of each other via planned C-section. Both are health and happy! They are the greatest joy in the world, and it's a hoot watching them grow and learn. We think we have it pretty easy as far at twins go. They constantly amaze us with their daily new expressions, antics, and personal distinctions. While it was certainly a tough go in the first few weeks, now they both sleep through the night, and are very happy, funny, bright and health kids. Getting to this point was physically and emotionally challenging. There were all the diagnostic tests, early morning temperature reading, IUI's, the miscarriage, the heparin shots... and then 37-1/2 weeks of nausea, worry and every discomfort imaginable (both for me and my very tolerant husband). I used to read the letters in the books under your coffee table when I needed to feel like we weren't alone in our situation and that there was hope of a good outcome. Because of that, I felt inclined to write a similar letter myself: not only to express our enormous gratitude for your services, but also to encourage other couples who may be enduring this struggle. We are most fortunate, and thankful that you all used your individual talents to bring these two great souls into our lives. Best wishes, Dear Dr. Johnson, Jo, and staff, This note is LONG overdue!! After 22 years of trying, to finally have our little boy, is truly a miracle! He is so perfect and we are treasuring every moment!! Thank you all for your support, encouragement, and wonderful care throughout the process. Thank you, too, for putting up with my needle phobia and for helping me work through it. Our boy is worth all the pokes and all the effort!! Now, our boy is 1-1/2 and here we are beginning this journey again with another tiny blessing. We couldn't be any happier and want to thank you for everything you're doing to ensure this new child gets off to a great start as well. With Love and Gratitude, Oct 3, 2003 Dear Dr. Johnson! Where does one begin to express the gratitude we feel towards you and your staff? For our daughter and son -in-law to have this beautiful, healthy little girl has brought so much job to our entire family. All our family and friends were hoping, against all hope, that a miracle may happen--you made this miracle happen and we shall never stop thanking you for all the help and encouragement you gave the two young parents. I hope you know how much happiness you give to so many! Thank you! Dear Dr. Johnson, I cannot thank you enough for finding out what was "wrong" with me. I truly believe if it wasn't for a doctor like you, I'd still be on drugs, more tests and false hopes. Thank you for not encouraging us to go further. If it wasn't for you, we'd still be childless. I know that fertility specialists have "success" rates and we
wouldn't be considered one of them, but we are!! I wish there were
more doctors like you. Dear Kevin Johnson M.D., Cheryl, Jo and the entire staff at ORH, We just wanted to let you know that we had our baby on July 1st, on day shy of our due date. We named her **. After a year & a half of trying to get pregnant the normal way, we about gave up on the idea of having a family. Thanks to ORH we are now a family of 3. Thank you so much for helping us get pregnant; and so quickly! You guys are awesome! We are so amazed that we are, indeed, parents...finally. Forever grateful, Dear Dr. Johnson, Thank you so much for everything you have done for us over the past couple years. We can't tell you how much we appreciate everything you and your staff do on a daily basis; not just medically, but emotionally as well. Your positive attitude and bedside manner allowed us to remain positive and never give up. And now, after 2-1/2 years, it look's like it will be a success!! Thanks again to you and everyone involved in your practice for hanging in there with us. Please also pass on a special thanks to all those in the lab. We both know how much of a role they play in the final outcome. With sincerest gratitude to you, Doctor Johnson & Jo, We are so grateful for all that you did to help us achieve the miracle of our precious babies, a little girl and a little boy. We still can't believe they are here, healthy and happy!! It was a long road, and you were both right beside us every step of the way. We will never forget your patience, expertise , encouragement and support. Our love and sincere appreciation, Dear Jo & Dr. Johnson, I don't have any words to describe our happiness and gratitude. You guys did a wonderful job with my IUI. I enjoyed every bit of my pregnancy & delivered a baby girl July 21,2001. Thank you both for the marvel you have made possible. My daughter and I plan on visiting you, & will do so soon. With love, Thank you! Thank you so much for your help in making our little girl a reality. It had been a long road, but when we came to you things started charging right along. Thank you again. Warm regards, Jo, Our little girl has arrived!!! December 26, 2002 at 10:55 pm, weighing 7 lbs. 8 oz. and measuring 21 inches long. All went well with the delivery, etc., and we are beyond thrilled with our precious angel. Please share the news with everyone at ORH. I'm attaching the
first photo, but will drop by one of these days and show her off in
person. Dear Dr Johnson, How can we show our gratitude to someone who gave us such a miracle? I hope you know what a divine service you provide. You bring such blessings to others with your skill, warmth and humor. All we can say is thank you, bless you and good wishes to you and your family! Keep doing what you do--there are angels among us. May all your wishes come true! Love C & J Dear Dr. Johnson, & Cheryl & Jo, Thank you guys SO MUCH for helping us get pregnant with our baby boy. We can hardly believe it "worked on the first try." Your techniques at selecting the right "material" from both of us appear to work very well: we think our baby is beautiful and he is really bright, happy ,happy, happy baby boy. Here is a picture we took of him a few months ago. Our apologies for not sending it sooner; we've been a little busy with the little guy and are getting remiss about correspondence. Thanks again for everything and we want you to know you are doing fantastic work. Sincerely, Dear Dr. Johnson, We cannot imagine how our lives would be without our son who only came into this world because of Overlake Reproductive Health. We cannot believe that our perfect little baby came from those tiny little eggs and sperm that were joined for us by such wonderful specialists! It is amazing to think of where we were a year ago, dealing with infertility, wondering if we'd ever be parents, to where we are now, with our beautiful baby. The process of IVF has allowed us to become parents. For that we are eternally grateful to Dr. Johnson, Jo, Shaun, Margaret and the rest of the wonderful team, who helped my husband and I make our dreams come true! You will always hold a special place on our family! Dear Overlake Reproductive Health: Thank you so much for all you did to help make our dreams come true! We are so thrilled to be expecting a healthy baby (girl!!) on Dec 27th. The extraordinary technical competence and warm supportive demeanor exhibited by every team member made the IVF process a pleasure. Thanks, B & TM To: Dr. Kevin M. Johnson, M.D. & All Staff Dear Miracle Workers, I'm writing this letter to personally thank every single person at Overlake Reproductive Health. Every person there has a hand in our small miracle that entered the world on November 1st 2003 at 11:13 am. She was 7 lbs. 13 oz and we named her S.A.G. We can't even begin to put into words how thankful we are to each and every one of you for your professionalism and determination on helping us begin the next step in our life. Thank you for your caring smiling faces every time we came in to the office when we so often felt very vulnerable and sometimes kind of weak. Thank you for your undying support and optimistic atmosphere which made going through such a rigorous schedule seem like smooth sailing. Your office truly gave my husband and I the best present anyone could ever have and we will remember you all forever. Please find enclosed pictures, we hope you enjoy them and maybe inspire other hopeful parents with them. Thank you, K.G, S.G., & S.G To Dr. Johnson and everyone @ ORH: Thank you for the miracle in our lives! She is a wonderful baby and we are having a great time together. We are so grateful to you for all your help! ML & JL Dear Dr. Johnson & Staff Thank you all for making this very difficult time seem easy. Everyone was/is so nice and genuinely loving, I enjoyed coming to the office for all the many visits and I have missed you all! My husband and I had been wanting a baby for 6 years and we had gone through so much, but we have been blessed and we are truly thankful for all that you did to make it possible. I will bring baby in soon to all of you. May 9, 2003 Dear Jo, Just a note to say thank you for everything you have done to help us get pregnant! I appreciated so much your kindness and sense of humor. I have a lot of confidence about this pregnancy because of all the ways you helped build my confidence. I am now at almost 18 weeks, and all is well. I did finally get in with the OB you recommended, and I just love her. I am not as sick as I was, and I am starting to get really excited. I’ve not gained much weight yet for which I am grateful. I know its coming, but so far I feel good. Anyway, I just wanted to express my real gratefulness to you for your care of me, and all the little things you have done to meet my needs during this time. I like it that your honest, direct and concise. I felt like I could trust you and I felt no need to get the opinion of others or get on the internet to do research etc. Thanks for being the best at what you do! August 24, 2003 Dear ORH Staff, Here I am writing to you on our little ones 3-week birthday. Of course, we couldn’t have done it without you. We are so grateful for people like yourselves that take it upon themselves to enter a profession that provides blessings to others. Thank you! I have to say, the whole process wasn’t exactly easy, but it was certainly worth all of it—and you made the whole thing as bearable as possible. I tell everyone about the wonderful care I received from you, and how lucky we were to be your patients. My little girl is everything any parent could pray for. Every little thing about her delights us—even her crying! I am sure that will wear off though! I am sure you will agree she is the prettiest little girl you ever saw. We will come visit again so Dr. Johnson can inspect the finished product. All our best to you! Dear Dr. Johnson, Jo & Cheryl, Our little Miss made her quick entrance into the world 15 days early. She was almost born in the car! I had 1 ½ hours of total labor. My husband missed the birth parking the car. The Dr. didn’t make it to the room in time either. I guess I made the Nurses day. Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to become parents of this miracle. She is a total joy. We are looking forward to all of the challenges ahead. All the best. We can’t thank you enough for everything you’ve done for us. When we came to you in October, it was such a low point for us—it was the culmination of months of disappointment and frustration. But your kindness, your expertise, and your professionalism brought hope and optimism back to us, and ultimately it made possible the pregnancy we weren’t sure was possible. Words are not enough! Hi Jo, First, thank you to you and all the staff for treating our surrogate and us so well on Monday. At many clinics this can all be awkward. She felt very comfortable with all of you and noted that your office is much friendlier than any other experience she has had (and she's done this at 3 different clinics). Most doctors say something along the lines of "no more talking, and don't move" and that's about it. She appreciated hearing all that was happening and in general the whole visit. Thank you for everything! Dear Dr. Johnson & staff, Enclosed you will find a picture of our beautiful new babies, I was a patient of yours last year with a successful IVF times two. We went full term, and both babies were almost 7 lbs. each. I will always remember my IVF experience & want to thank you for everything you did to help us. Obviously we are extremely happy, if not sleep deprived. It was a two year road to finally become pregnant, and I don’t think I could have asked for a better IVF experience. I wish and hope for all your patients that they be as lucky as we have been! Tell them all to never lose hope. I am so glad we didn’t! Best Wishes & Thank you so much!
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Here are some pictures of Elliott as promised. He was born on
12/31/07, so he is our New Year's baby! As you can imagine, we are loving
life!! It's been an 8 year journey for us to get pregnant.
me and most of
all, she seemed to know exactly how the pain and hopelessness of
infertility felt. I spent 8 years of my life trying to become a mother,
and it was as if she was my personal project manager the entire time. I
would have never found the strength to keep going without her and she
holds a huge place in our hearts forever. I know you already know this,
and I've told her this many times, but I never pass up a chance to blab
about her. :) Thank you a million times over.
you on the birth of my beautiful son. I have been
waiting 14 years for this baby, and I thought that I wasn't going to get
him during treatment; but thanks to Dr. Rehman I now have my miracle in my
arms. He is now 4 mos. old and he weighs 20 lbs so he doing great!!!
We are very very happy to announce of the arrival of our daughter
born October 8th 2007! She has been doing great. 
Dear Dr. Johnson, Joe, Shaun, and ORH staff, 
Thank you for
helping us realize our dream. Our children are a special blessing in our
lives. Enclosed is a disk with photos of the twins with Dr. Johnson and
Shaun from our visit and their photo at birth. 
