Embryologist Colleen Coughlin Helps Parents Start Families

It’s not uncommon for Colleen Coughlin to be out at a restaurant when a parent will approach her holding a child. “They say, ‘This woman made you,’” as they introduce her, says Colleen, who after 25 years as a top embryologist is still uncomfortable with that kind of praise. Coughlin heads a fertility lab where 80 percent of patients will leave with a baby. In fact, Coughlin’s clinic, aParent IVF, is credited with more than 25,000 births since it opened in 1986. Located in Highland Park, aParent IVF is the only independent fertility lab in the country owned and operated by a female embryologist

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