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After 47 years of serving our community and welcoming more than 16,000 babies, it is with very heavy hearts that we share that Lifecycle Wellness and Birth Center will be closing its doors in 2026. 
November 2, 2015

The Parent Trip: Tiffany Holder and Bets Beasley of West Philadelphia

By Anndee Hochman, for The Inquirer
October 21, 2015

All her life, Tiffany had trained herself to perform: back handsprings when she was a young gymnast, dance routines in musical theater, knee-hangs on aerial trapeze as an adult.

And when it was time to get pregnant, she and Bets planned for more than a year. They signed a contract with the friend who agreed to donate sperm. They waited while a local cryobank screened and froze that sperm for a mandatory six-month quarantine. Tiffany began charting her basal temperatures.

So why, month after month, was her body failing at the thing she wanted most?

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