You have probably heard by now that egg freezing is no longer defined as “experimental” by ASRM. What does this mean to patients? It means that the process of egg freezing, especially when vitrification is employed, can yield as good as fresh results. It does not mean that every lab can deliver those “good as [...]

This is a question that you might be reluctant to ask, but you really should.  The story Fertility doctor quits insemination after sperm mix-ups describes the sad tale of a 72 year old physician who finally quit performing inseminations in 2012 after three women came forward with children born after being inseminated with sperm other [...]

Note to Readers: This post is being published simultaneously here and on Fertility Within Reach  as a guest blogger post.  Fertility Within Reach is a relatively new non-profit organization whose mission is to educate and empower patients to be able to obtain the best possible infertility care. Fertility Within Reach is  working to develop tools [...]

It’s that time of year again.  If you are employed, your employer must send you your W2 forms by the last day of January and by April 15, 2013  you must file your annual federal and state tax returns. Most infertility patients still do not have full insurance coverage for their treatments and find that [...]

What characteristics  do you want in your sperm donor? Blue eyes? Brown hair? Would you like a six-foot two medical student who loves to play the saxophone or a five foot seven blonde tennis player? Or perhaps you’d like to find a sperm donor whose characteristics are a good match for your husband? Being able [...]

Although the trend has been toward more insurance companies offering coverage for infertility, most patients still have little or no insurance coverage for infertility treatments which can be very expensive, especially if high tech in vitro fertilization lab work is involved. To pay for these treatments, patients sometimes take out personal loans through a bank [...]

I get lots of questions from my readers, either in the comment box beneath the posts or via my contact email. I thought it might be helpful to  cross reference the most common questions with posts that address these topics. I do have a search box to find specific posts and posts are broadly arranged [...]

Anyone with a compassionate heart understands why couples want to have children and start families. Sometimes these couples need help from ART to conceive. Some of these couples may even need donated  gametes (eggs and/or sperm)  or embryos from non-related donors to establish a family.  The immediate focus for both ART providers and patients is [...]

Recently Dr. Craig Sweet of Sweet Fertility published a thought-provoking blog post entitled “Why Creating McEmbryos is Plain Wrong” which describes his misgivings with the alleged practices of another infertility clinic, California Conceptions, as reported in a recent LA Times article, “An Ethics debate over embryos on the cheap”. In the article, LA Times reporter [...]

Before we start down the road to IVF, is there a way to determine the probability that IVF treatments will work for us? Is there a way to predict our risk of multiples when we are being asked to decide between transferring one or two…or even three embryos? I failed my first IVF, what are [...]