61-Year-Old Husband & 50-Year-Old Wife Welcome Baby After Years of Infertility!

After trying for over a decade, 50-year-old Susie Troxler and her 61-year-old husband, Tony Troxler, have achieved their dream of having a baby!

On September 29, the couple, who have been together for 13 years, welcomed their daughter Lily, who weighed in at 5 lbs., 12 oz.

However, Susie and Tony’s road to parenthood was not easy.

“We got married later in life, obviously, and we just assumed we would get pregnant like most people,” Troxler, a psychologist in Greensboro, North Carolina, told CBS affiliate WFMY.

In her interview with WFMY, Susie said both she and Tony had medical issues that affected their ability to conceive. Additionally, a women’s fertility declines as they age.

“One year turned into two, then three, but when it got to be nine, 10, 11 years, we were like, something is up, and I’m not sure what it is,” she said.

During a checkup with Dr. Carolyn Harraway-Smith, Cone Health’s chief medical officer for women’s health, Susie told the doctor that she wanted to become a mom but that she and her husband were having trouble conceiving.

“I was disappointed to hear her say that no one had ever queried them or given them their options for fertility,” Harraway-Smith told Cone Health in a blog post published earlier this month. “I would advise anyone who wants to conceive to speak to your provider and let them know your concerns and future goals for planning a family.”

After Harraway-Smith told the couple about their options, Susie and Tony decided to try in vitro fertilization.

After undergoing IVF for two years, Susie and Tony still could not conceive and were down to their last embryo.

However, after that embryo was implanted, the couple were finally pregnant with a baby!

“They bring me into the ultrasound, and the first thing they said was, ‘Oh, she’s moving!’ I was like, ‘Yes!’” Susie recounted.

After Lily was delivered by Harraway-Smith herself, Susie was ecstatic that her “miracle baby” had finally arrived.

“It was so surreal,” Troxler told Cone Health. “Everything had come together for that moment to happen. It’s hard to wrap our heads around — we’re no longer just husband and wife, we’re ‘mommy’ and ‘daddy.’”

Despite their hardships, Tony — who works at Cone Health as a security team lead — always knew that he and his wife would become parents.

“We knew eventually we would have kids,” he told Cone Health. “We wouldn’t give up. We had that faith. We dreamed of her. We knew no matter how it was going to happen, that it was going to happen.