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Show Thursday, March 17, 1983 THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, - Page 21. Due to Have Test Tube Twins on May 13 Couple - CHICAGO (UPI) Pat make wishes ail the time and this was our wish. And it just came true for us." The Duda twins were conceived at the Center for Fertility and Reproductive Research at Vander-bil- t University Medical Center in Nashville. "It's very rare. This was her third attempt," said Dr. Anne Colston Wentz, center director. "We're obviously thrilled that she does have a pregnancy and we're even more delighted that they're twins." The Dudas met in 1970 and were married in 1974. "I've always wanted a family even before I thought of getting married. I always wanted children," Mrs. Duda said. "When we started dating 12 years Duda, 31, true. People who never gave up hope she could have children, expects to deliver the nation's second set of test tube twins. She would like one of each sex. Pat and Bob Duda, 33, are expecting their babies around May 13 at suburban Evans ton Hospital. Thef originally requested anonymity, but their names were released last week. The first twins, conceived at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Nortolk, va., are due in "I can't really say I ever really gave up hope," Mrs. Duda said. "I can't wait until they're born to see them." Duda said: "I just think it's a wonderful thing. It's a dream come mid-Apri- l. ago, we talked about having 12, then it got down to six. Then when we found out I couldn't get pregnant at all, we would have been happy to have just one." "We were married about two years and then we decided we were going to start a family. We tried and then I had an ectopic pregnancy, a miscarriage and then another ectopic pregnancy. "When they removed both (Fallo-piatubes, I found out this was the only way I could have children," Mrs. Duda said after a frustrating search to adopt. After years of waiting, Mrs. Duda sent her medical records to two in Norfolk and Nashvitro centers ville. In February 1982, she was contacted by the Nashville center. n) The Dudas traveled to Nashville the first week in March, but the first two attempts were unsuccessful. In the third attempt, Mrs. Duda s eggs were withdrawn and fertilized by her husband's sperm in a glass laboratory dish Aug. 19 and then transferred to her womb on Aug. 21. "After four hours, I got up and caught a flight to go home," she waited 10 days and went in said, for a blood test to see if I was pregnant. But I didn't know how many at that time. I just knew I was dealing with a pregnancy." The prospect of twins showed up during her third ultrasound test. "I found out it was going to be twins when I was 16 weeks pregnant," she said. "One was hiding' 'i behind the other one. That's when they got signs of separate sacs, separate placentas, so they're not going to be identical. "We were really excited," Mrs. Duda said. When her husband, a Cadillac salesman, found out, "He got all excited right in the middle of the showroom floor. He's getting used to it now." Mrs. Duda is not concerned about her children thinking ihey are in any way abnormal. once "It will quiet down there's more (in vitro babies). By the time they're old enough to start school, there will be so many babies running around, it won't make a difference. There are already 20, I think, in the United States." Mrs. Duda said in vitro fertiliza tion is a wonderful opportunity, but is not for everybody. "It worked for me. It can bring a lot of emotional grief for a lot ot people that it may not be successful for and to put a stress on therrr financially and emotionally," she said. "But you've got to really want it real bad and if you want it that bad, then I say just go for it try it." Mrs. Duda, an accountant at WGN-Tis on maternity leave since her doctor urged her to stay; home. "Because of its being twins, the doctors insist that she get as much; bed rest as possible and not do any; work around the house or any thing," Duda said. New Details Revealed in Child Death (UPI) a WANTAGE LOS ANGELES The policeman who killed holding a toy gun tried to leave without entering the child's home but was ordered back inside by a police superior, the Los Angeles Times has reported. Quoting unnamed sources close to the investigation, the Times said Officer Anthony Sperl of the Stanton Police Department radioed he was ending his assignment because he was unable to get inside the five-year-o- ld THE TASTE OF SUCCESS apartment. But a superior, Sgt. Robert instructed Sperl by radio to remain at the scene while police contacted the apartment manager and arranged for her to let the officer in with a pass key, the Ohle-man- n, sources said. Sperl had been sent to the apartment March 3 after a caller asked police to check on the welfare of the occupants. Once inside the apartment, Sperl saw a shadowy figure pointing a gun at him in a darkened bedroom. Sperl fired a single shot and Patrick Andrew Mason fell dead with a dime store toy pistol at his side. It was the first time Sperl's initial attempt to leave the scene prior to the shooting was disclosed. The Times said its sources have since been told not to talk to the media because of the ongoing investigation. Richard Farnell, the attorney representing the child's mother in a $20 million wrongful death claim against the city, said he was unaware the department had stopped Sperl from leaving the scene. Sperl, 24, has been suspended with pay. "If Sperl was under the direct orders of somebody else in doing that (entering the premises alone), then it would contribute even more clearly to the liability of the city," Farnell said. Prosecutors will ask a grand jury to determine whether Sperl should face criminal charges for killing the youngster. The officer could face a possible voluntary man- slaughter indictment, and there was "the outside possibility" of e murder. second-degre- In addition, the panel will decide the victim's mother was negligent for leaving the youngster alone in the locked apartment while she worked. The jury will determine whether Patricia Ridge "contributed to her son's death." if I Buzzards Return Wf e To Hinckley, Ohio - I i AlHINCKLEY, Ohio (UPI) though not as inspiring as the swallows of San Juan Capistrano, r -- a- r - the buzzards have returned to Hinckley right on time. Tradition says the buzzards return actually turkey vultures to Hinckley each year on March 15 but some years they've dawdled on their migration from the South and have been a few days late. But not this year. Lt. Roger Lutz, a Cleveland ranger who has been for 15 years, said on schedule Tuesday. in soared they "We spotted the first two at 8:21 a.m. and a half an hour later we saw seven more," Lutz said. "Those seven went way up in the air. They were soaring so high you could barely see them." Buzzards may be ugly but their annual reappearance is beautiful to the Hinckley Chamber of Commerce. Their return is marked by a pancake breakfast, which attracts up to 40,000 visitors, on the followbuzzard- -watching J ing Sunday. As far back as the early 1800s settlers noticed the ugly, birds returned to their i I ? I ! iJl, liars northeastern Ohio roosts on the Ides of March. Now about 100 buzzards, with a maximum wing, span of up to six feet, roost in trees and on ledges in the park 30 miles 1P) rSpsJj Un15S with That's Success! Low Tar. south of Cleveland. Naturalists say buzzards winter as far south as Florida, Cuba and South America, but they assume the Hinckley buzzards go no farther than Kentucky or Tennessee. "It's the biology of them and 5p 'i ffLjIil -- Great Taste dark-feather- that prompt their return this time of year," said Ken Gober, a Metroparks naturalist. "Their biological clock keeps track of everything." The buzzards lay their eggs inside hollow trees, under dense shrubbery or on the bare ground around v w their surroundings . abandoned buildings, rock ledges and caves, which are plentiful in the park, Gober said. Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. I ULTraughtS; 5mg.w.o.5mg.n,coune, 100's: 9 mg.V, 07 mg. nicotine, av. per cigarette . I by FTC method 1 . ! |
