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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Marna Gatlin is without doubt a wonderful woman who generously gives her time for something she feels passionately about: egg donation. Because of her passion and devotion to the group she now runs, Parents Via Egg Donation, she was featured in today’s The Oregonian.
I met her this past fall in San Francisco at the American [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
Maybe is the answer. But the study conducted by Utah reproductive endocrinologist Ahmad Hammoud showed a drop in sperm’s motility two months after air pollution was at its worst. It is intriguing enough to warrant further study. Hammoud would like to determine what in the fine particulate matter could be causing the drop in [...]
Thousands of individuals and couples face the dilemma of what to do with the unused frozen embryos after they have completed their family or either decided to stop IVF treatment and build their family using other means. One couple I talked to has three children and 17 frozen embryos on ice. The couple do not [...]
When the Cairns Fertility Centre in Western Australia opens its doors next year it will not only be the the largest IVF center in the world, but it will also be the first to have a five-star resort. Numerous studies have shown what stress can do to the body, and IVF treatments are incredibly stressful, [...]
Newsweek has printed another article on infertility and this time focusing on women in developing countries and what it means for them and their families to be childless. While it is extremely difficult to go through infertility in the U.S., in some cases these women are completely shut off from society, with no one to [...]