It isn’t an easy decision to pursue other ways to conceive aside from the natural way. But if you’ve been trying to get pregnant for more than a year and it’s just not happening, it’s a logical choice to…
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Reproductive medicine has come a long way in 10, 20, 30 years. More and more couples and individuals are finding ways to have babies thanks to advances in treatments, which are forever evolving and improving. Advanced reproductive medicine has…
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Being healthy certainly provides a good road to success with IVF. Someone who is fit and at a reasonable weight has a better chance of successful IVF than an individual who is overweight or has other medical issues. That's…
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Women have long associated the female "cycle" with pain, at least some of the time. But most people might not realize that there's a specific pain or cramping during ovulation that is different than typical menstrual pain and which…
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If you're trying to get pregnant, when and how long you ovulate is a big deal. For most women, ovulation seems practically like a mystery. They can't see it or feel it and – in most cases – have no…
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Much testing is involved in the diagnosis of infertility. Women who are trying to conceive and haven’t after 12 months of unprotected sex will likely undergo a number of different procedures in order to assess what’s going wrong and…
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Artificial insemination certainly isn’t a new-fangled 21st century procedure. Long a common practice in animal breeding, the first reported case of successful human artificial insemination happened in 1884 and the first sperm bank was developed in Iowa in the…
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A lot of terms associated with infertility and its treatment are a bit long and complicated, but the procedures associated with those terms aren’t as complex as one might think at first glance. Consider ICSI, for example. Those four…
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Battling infertility sometimes involves a plethora of medical professionals, and the reproductive endocrinologist (RE) is usually at the center of this ensemble of individuals who are trying to make conception happen. The reproductive endocrinologist is an OB/GYN physician who…
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Dealing with infertility is stressful in general, but those who are using IVF in an attempt to conceive can often feel extra stress at certain points. Egg retrieval, which is important to the final outcome, is often one of…
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