We had our daughters through IVF, Michelle Obama reveals

The former First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, has
revealed that she and her husband, ex-President Barack Obama, had
their two children — Malia and Sasha — through the in-vitro
fertilisation.

Michelle said that after marriage, she and the ex-president had
trouble achieving pregnancy; and that when she finally became
pregnant, she suffered a miscarriage. Eventually, they had to
settle for the IVF, through which they both had their two children
— both girls.

Michelle’s journey to motherhood was everything but easy, it
turned out, as she claimed that even when she agreed to have an
IVF, her husband’s frequent absences from the home compelled her to
sometime go it alone, as she had to administer the injections that
were a part of the IVF process all by herself.

The revelation was contained in her memoir, Becoming, as
reviewed by the Washington Post.

First daughter Malia Ann was born on July 4, 1998; while Natasha
(aka Sasha), was born on June 10, 2001, according to the family’s
Wiki entry.

It may be recalled that, on March 17, 2017, aol.com published a
trending news which it identified as fake, stating that the Obama
family was the subject of an article stating that a man had filed a
lawsuit claiming he was the biological father of the Obama
daughters, Sasha and Malia.

The article — which came from the satirical entertainment
website The Last Line of Defense — says a man named Ezekiel
Wilekenmeyer Williams filed a lawsuit with the backing that
Dunstrom Pharmaceuticals had hired him to provide sperm donations
for Barack and Michelle Obama some 20 years ago.

The article also claimed that the so-called biological father
was white.

An excerpt from the article states: “Williams, who has four PhDs
from MIT and Oxford, sits first chair violin in the London
Philharmonic Orchestra and is a world champion chess and Texas Hold
‘Em player, says the original agreement was that if his offspring
became famous, he would receive recognition for being their
father.”

In the memoir, as shared by the Washington Post, however,
Michelle Obama laid the issue to rest.

The Post writes, “She also shares intimate details for the first
time, for instance, that she and her husband had trouble getting
pregnant, suffered a miscarriage, and that both daughters were
conceived through in vitro fertilization.

“And that she did a great deal of this while her husband was
away serving in the state legislature, leaving her to administer
the shots that are a part of that process herself.”