You may wonder what national healthcare reform will mean to you and your family. Although a few of the simpler reforms have come to pass, such as letting parents keep their adult children on their health insurance longer, most of the reforms have not gone into effect. It will take six years until all the [...]

Happy New Year! I hope this new year is a year of resolution of infertility for each and every one of you who are suffering from infertility. As difficult as it is, infertility is not a permanent condition, but a life passage. Everyone with infertility moves on to parenting by some means or adapts to [...]

On one December day each year in the Northern hemisphere, the earth is tilted at its furthest limit, leaning away from the sun. Today, Dec 21, at exactly 6:38PM EST, those of us in the Northern hemisphere will be tilted furthest from the sun and experience the fewest hours of daylight and the longest night [...]

An embryologist’s holiday often begins in the lab. After all, you can’t really put sperm and egg to bed (so to speak) and leave them alone for the weekend or holiday. Some labs close down for the big holidays and don’t cycle patients. This often makes patients unhappy because around the holidays, especially the longer [...]

A new study by Professor Barbara Luke of Michigan State  looked at 300,000 IVF cycles in the US. Professor Luke’s study showed that 36% of women became pregnant after one cycle of IVF. Of women who went on to a second IVF cycle after the first cycle failed, only 12% more conceived (48%) in the [...]

I came across the article, Military Wives Turn to Surrogacy: Labor of Love or Financial Boost? and it annoyed me. I realize that the title and the article are meant to be provocative and this one is just a revival of an old story for a slow news cycle. There have also been other almost [...]

IVF made big news again this week when numerous news outlets picked up the Fertility and Sterility journal article published September 30, 2010, reporting a live birth in May from a cryopreserved embryo that had been frozen nearly two decades ago. The embryo was stored for 19 years and 7 months. The earliest record for [...]

Third party reproduction is an umbrella term that covers using donated sperm, egg, or embryo or  “loaner” uterus to conceive and take home a baby. This option is rarely a first choice and is often the last resort before adoption or deciding to go on without children. As with much of reproductive biology, third party [...]

As though infertile women (and men) didn’t have enough to be anxious about, the New York Times reported on a new study that has scientifically confirmed the obvious, that stress can disrupt the reproductive system and make conception more difficult. There are an amazing number of articles, opinions and business opportunities regarding stress and infertility. [...]