August 18, 2009
The Sun reported this week that a teacher in Tunisia is pregnant with 6 boys and 6 girls and she has vowed to carry them all to term. Did we learn nothing from the tragedy that is Octomom Nadya Suleman?
Those babies will be lucky if they make it 30 weeks — and survive. Even if [...]
April 1, 2009
I wear a little silver ring on the third finger of my left hand. It’s a simple ring: a thin band embellished with a roughly-ovular shaped bowled accent. A hand-shaped silver sphere is nestled in the middle of this crude bowl, as imperfectly spherical as its resting place, a sign of the authenticity of the [...]
February 4, 2009
A must-read blog post from Samuel Wood, MD, who is a board certified reproductive endocrinologist and has been practicing in this field for 15 years, on the octuplets. He puts the blame squarely on the shoulders of the physician and has contacted the medical board to investigate the situation.
He not only shows leadership in contacting [...]
December 16, 2008
The producer of this special has contacted Extraordinary Conceptions about this program for Lifetime TV. They are looking for individuals or couples undergoing treatment who are willing to share their experiences with the world in the hopes of providing support, education, and guidance about a subject that many people still know very little about: [...]
December 9, 2008
Women who are exposed to secondhand smoke either as children or as adults are 68 percent more likely to have fertility problems, including miscarriages. I’m astounded by that figure. I know from speaking to embryologists that they can tell from looking at an embryo if the intended mother or egg donor smoked, but I had [...]
October 28, 2008
I just finished reading Julianne’s blog, and apparently she had a cyst on her ovary caused by endometriosis that ruptured last week instead of the stomach pain that she originally said. It looks like she is getting some good advice from her doctors and I am so pleased that she is open about her surgery [...]