Coping with Infertility
When getting pregnant doesn’t happen easily, it may come as a surprise. But when pregnancy is unattainable after repeated fertility treatments, the stress can precipitate
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Men: Supporting Your Partner
Barring some unexpected scientific breakthroughs, pregnancy will always be a woman’s job. A man can feel a baby kick and love it before it’s born,
Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) revolutionized treatment for male infertility. The procedure, introduced in 1992, involves taking single motile sperm and directly injecting the sperm into
Diethylstilbestrol (DES)
What is DES? DES is short for diethylstilbestrol, a synthetic estrogen commonly prescribed to help prevent miscarriage and other problems with pregnancy during the years
Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Fertility?
The journey from conception through pregnancy to childbirth can be so full of twists, turns, and obstacles that it’s no surprise many couples have trouble
Lifestyle and Fertility
Humans are closely tuned to their surroundings – especially when it comes to making babies. Just as bears and elk wait for the right season
Adoption
If you’ve ever thought about adopting a child, you’ve probably already asked yourself some very important questions: Are you ready to devote your life to
Infertility and Stress
For couples struggling with infertility, “just relax” may be the most aggravating two-word phrase in the English language. “Those are fighting words,” says infertility expert
Choosing a Fertility Doctor
Out of desperation, many people turn to the first fertility specialist they find in the phone book, or someone they’ve heard about from a friend.
Detecting Ovulation
What is ovulation? Ovulation is the fertile time of your menstrual cycle, which occurs when a mature egg — or ovum — is released from
Donor Eggs and Embryos
If you are in your early to late 40s and trying to conceive a child, you are probably considering whether to use the eggs of
Endometriosis
What is endometriosis? Endometriosis gets started when tissue from your endometrium, the uterine lining that nourishes a developing fetus, begins growing outside the uterus. This
Assisted Reproductive Technology
If you’re old enough, you may remember all the hoopla about “test-tube babies” when the first child was conceived outside a woman’s body in 1978.
Male Infertility
From a man’s point of view, starting a family is easy. While women are on the job for nine months, men can often complete the
What’s Age Got to Do With It?
In the early 2000’s, women in New York and other U.S. cities got a less-than-gentle reminder about age and fertility: bus-size billboard ads trumpeting “Advancing
The Egg Factor in Fertility
The concept I describe most frequently to anyone interested in fertility is that of ovarian reserve, or the “egg factor.” As of this writing we
Top Infertility Myths
For as long as people have been having children, they’ve been trying to understand the mystery of fertility. We’ve come a long way, but many