Making positive changes can impact our mental, emotional, and physical health. This can be helpful when dealing with the difficult emotions and stress that accompany infertility. Below I list 10 areas in our lives that we can all try to improve. If you are ready to make healthy changes, pick one, two, or three of […]
Should I See A Fertility Specialist?
Perhaps you’ve been under a lot of stress lately. Or, maybe your partner is always traveling during “the right time”. If you hear yourself making excuses month after month for seemingly unexplained infertility, then it might be time to sit down with a fertility specialist to uncover the root cause of the problem. “What many […]
Start Saving For Fertility
The New Year is a good time to reflect on the past and set new goals for the future. It’s also a great time to clean house, take stock and take action. If one of your goals is to save money to pay for fertility treatments in 2016, there are a few simple steps you […]
Multiple Pregnancy – When Eight is way too much!
The recent delivery of the California octuplets has stimulated a national debate about the ethical and practical decisions being made during advanced fertility treatments. Multiple pregnancies are associated with increased risks to both the mother and babies. The higher the gestational number, the higher the risks to all parties involved. In order to reduce the […]
Egg Donation – What is it?
How does it work? Each woman is born with a finite number of eggs. These eggs will be depleted with time as many are lost each month in the inefficient process of follicul- o- genesis and ovulation. For example, 2-3 million eggs exist in the ovary at birth but only 300,000 remain by puberty. This […]