| Dr. Bello and the Quad Squad |
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| After two years of trying to have children, a Midland couple was rewarded recently with quadruplets. Juli and Keith Poe became proud parents by
cesarean section from 10:29 to 10:32 a.m. January 9 at Odessa Regional Hospital. Dr. Ghassan Fanous did the delivery with Dr. Charles Lively assisting. |
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| Midland Couple Has Healthy Triplets |
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| Petra and Luis Olivas have faced their share of tragedy and now they’re embracing life — three new lives in fact. Four years ago, an oilfield
accident rendered the now 24-year-old Luis a paraplegic. Also, on Christmas Eve of 2002, the couple’s first child, also named Luis, drowned in Mexico. A year after
the tragedy, 25-year-old Petra went to infertility specialist Dr. Sandra Bello. At 34 weeks on April 8, she delivered triplets — two boys and a girl — at Odessa Regional Hospital. |
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| Dr. Bello Offers Hope to Prospective Moms and Dads |
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| As a teenager, Dr. Sandra Bello wanted to be a botanist and travel to other planets to propagate plant life. Now Dr. Bello offers hope to prospective moms and
dads who dream of having children, offering in vitro fertilization in Odessa since 2002. She has been doing the procedure since 1996 at the University of Southern California,
Houston and now Odessa. Recently, Dr. Bello opened a new office for her West Texas Reproductive Center at 703 N. Hancock Avenue. The next closest place that offers in vitro
is in Lubbock. After that, patients would have to travel to San Antonio, Austin, Dallas or Houston. |
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| Spring 2003 Opening of West Texas Reproductive Center |
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| In early spring, reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Sandra Bello plans to open a new office and clinic just a few blocks north of her
current practice in downtown Odessa. While that may not sound like a big deal, the fact that an in vitro fertilization laboratory will be located in
the same building will place Odessa-Midland on par with Dallas, San Antonio and Albuquerque, N.M., the closest cities to offer an IVF program at one facility. |
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article from Odessa American Online |
| Opening of In Vitro Fertilization Lab |
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| Odessa Regional Hospital added another technique to the city’s growing repertoire of medical services with the opening of an in vitro fertilization
lab in May. And the baby business is booming. The IVF lab opened less than two weeks ago, and Dr. Sandra Bello, a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility
specialist who began her Odessa practice in December, has already retrieved eggs from four women hoping to have babies with the assistance of modern medicine.
Infertility specialists are not ‘playing God,’ Bello said. “Instead, we are giving God a helping hand.” |
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