Tips on Eating For Fertility
When couples are having difficulty conceiving, they often feel like there is very little that they can control. After all, they can do “everything right” and still not achieve a pregnancy. It’s the...
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Is 2013 Your Year to Have a Baby?
Let’s say that the calendar doesn’t stop after December 23, 2012. You are still right here, and really want a baby! What then? What’s your action plan? And perhaps the bigger question is what do you...
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Are You Stressing About Infertility?
I find the entire conversation about the links between stress and conceiving a baby – frankly very stressful. And the advice changes like the weather in San Francisco: if you don’t like it just wait...
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Fast Facts on Fertility and Age
Infertility is not solely a woman’s problem. In fact, infertility affects men and women equally. People are often surprised to learn that 35% of infertility cases are related to the male, and 35% to...
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The Semen Analysis Test: Magazines or Video?
Chances are, you or your man may have already had a semen analysis either at the doctors office, or perhaps you have used SpermCheck, the first over the counter semen analysis kit. Or you are perhaps...
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Male Fertility Part Three: The Physical!
A good urologist who specializes in male infertility will give you a thorough going-over. It’s important because the exam can detect conditions such as a varicocele. Varicocele Treatment Varicocele...
View ArticleWaiting For Pregnancy
We live in an instant society. We can get our movies on demand, pay our bills online, and there is an app for everything. We have lost our ability to wait. And the waiting is the hardest when it is for...
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Infertility in Black Women
Minority Couples’ Infertility Issues As a fertility advocate, I get a lot of press releases. And sometimes, I really love them. Especially when they actually have more to tell me than why I should I...
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Fertility Lifestyle Tip Sheet
So it’s your year to have a baby! Congratulations! How do you get started on getting your body ready for making a baby? Start with eating healthy foods, getting plenty of rest, and taming stress....
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IVF and Cancer?
On February 18th, Reuters reported a new study that is a relief to many patients struggling with infertility, and considering doing IVF. It is the concern that doing IVF could someday increase their...
View ArticleNational Infertility Awareness Week: State of The ART
It’s impossible, the doctor said. You’ve got Kleinfelter’s Syndrome and you don’t have sperm. You’re too old and so are your eggs. I’m sorry , we don’t know why but you’ll never get pregnant! Whoa....
View ArticleInfertility: Separating The Fact From The Fiction
Few diseases have as strange and unhappy a legacy of myths as infertility. In every culture around the world those of us coping with reproductive difficulties have to stare down the barrel of...
View ArticleLet’s Hear it For The Men!
We like to think of ourselves as enlightened, capable of intelligent discussion and rational thinking. Few things will put those admirable qualities to the test as male infertility. Mention male factor...
View ArticleWhat is Infertility?
What is Infertility? • Infertility is a disease that results in the abnormal function of the reproductive system. • Infertility prevents people from creating a family – one of the most fundamental and...
View ArticleLGBTQ and Wanting a Family
Studies have clearly demonstrated that children of same-sex parents are as well adjusted and happy as children of heterosexual parents. Same-sex parents have the ability and freedom to create parenting...
View ArticleThe Latest and Greatest Infertility Treatment Break Through
Louise Brown, the first IVF child conceived, is now an adult and a mother. So much has changed since her conception and birth – and yet so much has stayed the same. When it comes to human reproduction...
View ArticleWhy You Should Keep a Fertility Journal
Infertility treatment can make you feel like you’re Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and your house just fell on a witch in a foreign land. From the moment of your first visit to the man or woman behind the...
View ArticleWhen You Want to Push The Infertility Panic Button!
It’s that feeling in our belly that can feel like butterflies or snakes. Free flowing anxiety that seems to come from nowhere. Only you know where it is coming from; it’s coming from not knowing what...
View ArticleSometimes We Need to Re-Evaluate The Infertility Treatment Plan
Do you know the old saying: “When you see a fork in the road, take it?” Well, the same sometimes holds true for treating infertility. It could be that you are on your third failed cycle of anything...
View ArticleMommy Once, Mommy Twice! Secondary Infertility
You have done this before. You have conceived, carried and birthed a baby. Perhaps you have never even thought about the process of conception at all. You just get pregnant when you want to, or maybe...
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