Susie and Tony Trockler never gave up on being parents. Even when Suzy turned 50, that dream never went away. On Thanksgiving, a couple will fulfill their dream with their newborn. Lily Antonia Troxler was born in September. 29 – He suffered from infertility for over 10 years.
“It’s really surreal,” Susie Troxler told “Good Morning America” about welcoming her 50-year-old daughter. “I wasn’t married, I was a woman, and the idea of becoming a mother was something I was still attached to.”
Susie Troxler, a psychologist in High Point, North Carolina, married Tony, 61, 13 years ago.
She thought she could achieve her goal of becoming a mother, but as the years passed, so did her hope. Couples trying to conceive after age 35 are considered “advanced maternal age,” according to several peer-reviewed studies.
But Susie Troxler said in a personal interview with Cone Health that Lily has turned into a “wonderful child.” Tony and Susie Troxler with their daughter Lily.
“It was very surreal,” he said. “Everything came together to make this a success. It’s hard to wrap your head around it. We were no longer husband and wife, but “mother” and “father.”
Tony Troxler said he is still thinking about becoming a father. “I still feel like I’m looking at that person,” he said. “He had me wrapped around his little finger before I was born.”
Suzy underwent several rounds of IVF (in vitro fertilization) after surgery to get pregnant in 2019. Since they could not produce viable embryos, they resorted to egg donation.
“When we got married we thought we would get pregnant, but we didn’t,” she said. “But we’re both very old-fashioned. Growing up, no one talked or even discussed IVF. “It was nothing.”
But this alternative method was how the Troxlers got Lily. Susie met a new gynecologist who gave her the hope she was looking for.
Last February, Troxler was given one last chance to transfer frozen embryos. A few weeks later, Susie became pregnant with Lily.
Suzy said: “It seems the kids come regardless of the age of their parents. We see it because it is programmed. He is our miracle child.”