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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and everything you see is awash in pink. Survival rates from many types of cancers, breast cancer included, are on the rise. It stands to reason that a woman must be thinking forward to life after cancer treatment— and what effect her treatments will have had (and will have) […]
In case you missed our “shout out” on Facebook last week, the “father of the test tube baby,” Robert G. Edwards, won the Nobel Prize for medicine. Edwards was able to visualize in vitro fertilization (IVF) as a treatment for infertility as early as the 1950’s. Perhaps his greatest accomplishment? Fertilizing human egg cells outside […]
One of the many challenges that come with receiving a diagnosis of infertility is that by the time you actually receive an official diagnosis, you have already gone through months, or possibly years of trying to have a baby. By then, you already understand the disappointment that comes from wanting to have a baby, and […]
Therapeutic insemination or in vitro fertilization with donor sperm is considered when there is a male factor resulting from absent or significantly abnormal sperm. When couples plan to start a family the possibility of having an infertility problem is the furthest thing from their mind. The recommendation to use donor sperm is sometimes not easily […]
Egg donation is one of the most successful ways a couple may choose to build their family. “Egg donation” simply refers to using an egg donor along with the male partner’s sperm to achieve pregnancy. This is an option for those couples who are experiencing infertility (most likely caused by poor egg quality,) but want […]
Stress is typically a result from anything that you feel is threatening or harmful. The inability to get pregnant, or maintain a pregnancy, for months and sometimes years, feels threatening and harmful to most people. Being diagnosed as infertile may be the most devastating news a young person, or couple, has ever received. Although it […]
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