Embryos from other countries This opens up a huge Pandora’s Box in the world of third party reproduction. We know that the USA has over 400,000 embryos in the freezer. Some of them are long forgotten and abandoned taking up space while others are in preparation to be used for [...]
By Andrea Bryman. Steps in egg donor screening – It has taken many years to create the niche I have in my profession, a mental health therapist specializing in egg donation and surrogacy.
Our July trip to Prague was unsuccessful. We got 4 highly fragmented, oddly dividing embryos and we transferred all four with a 10-20% chance of one taking. I returned home to read every success story I could find with fragmented embryos. There were a few out there but two weeks [...]
This Abstract was written and presented by Dr. Vasiliki A. Moragianni of Boston IVF at ASRM 2012. AUTHORS: Vasiliki A. Moragianni, MD, MS1,2, Konstantinos N. Aronis, MD3, Denny Sakkas, PhD2, Alan S. Penzias, MD1,2, Michael M. Alper, MD1,2. 1Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess [...]
Medical-Surgical Nurse since 1996. Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner since 2004. Currently at the Huntington Reproductive Center in west Los Angeles, CA.Originally from the East Coast, I’ve been living here in Southern California for the last 9 years and working in the field of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility for the past [...]
Holidays can always be tough when we are dealing with infertility. Many holidays revolve around families and children. So for those of us without kids those holidays can just plain suck. As I was surfing through the net reading about different ways we can cope through the holidays my focus [...]
Embryos from other countries This opens up a huge Pandora’s Box in the world of...
Andrea Bryman is one of the top psychologists in the U.S. specializing in screening...
Our July trip to Prague was unsuccessful. We got 4 highly fragmented, oddly dividing...
This Abstract was written and presented by Dr. Vasiliki A. Moragianni of Boston IVF...
Medical-Surgical Nurse since 1996. Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner since...
Holidays can always be tough when we are dealing with infertility. Many holidays...
Choosing a fertility clinic can be a true challenge. And, although you may not want to pick a clinic based solely on given statistics, it is...
By: Olga Danchenko, Attorney at Law. Since January 1, 2004, when the new Family Code was adopted, Ukraine has become an attractive destination...
Israel’s highly educated and highly entrepreneurial workforce is a world leader in many fields –biotechnology, defense, hi-tech, and medicine....
SOUTH AFRICA OVERVIEW: Clinics appear to treat single women and unmarried couples. South Africa does not regulate PGD explicitly by legislation...
I read the most interesting article about Australia and how a growing number of Australians are going to India for surrogacy. It seems that India...
Rise in twin births Even as early as the year 2000 many women were having the opinion that having twins was “glamorous”, “cute”, adorable and fun. The reality is, it’s not, its hard work. Your healthiest twin mom will tell you hands down the first year is a blur. There’s [...]
When we think about infertility we often conjure up pictures in our minds of sad women who wear dark clothing and isolate themselves — never mingling with the rest of the world – forever burdened with the inability to have children. The reality is those who walk amongst you putting [...]
Egg Retrieval – that’s what I’m talking about. For those of you who haven’t undergone an egg retrieval listen up – our doctor prescribe various injectable medications for us to take during an IVF cycle. The hope is that this medication will stimulate our ovaries to create more than one [...]
Negative and Fat come to mind as in “big fat negative” when talking about taking pregnancy test after pregnancy test. How many negative pregnancy tests have you had to endure? Three, Five, Ten, over 20? Or have you not even gotten to that point yet. Over the years I think [...]
The “I” in infertility can mean a lot of many things for many people but to me it meant isolation. Often I felt alone like I was not only walking this path alone but that I was the only person in the world who was infertile. During my years in [...]
