If you’re planning a visit with a fertility doctor, be prepared. Discussing issues like egg quality, sperm count, timing sex, treatment options can leave anyone a little dazed and confused. Here are some questions to bring with you along with something to take notes with as you listen to answers. 1. What is your experience […]
The Best Foods To Boost Your Fertility
There’s lots of advice about what to eat once you’re pregnant, but what about before? Ideally, men and women should be well-nourished three months prior to conception for optimal pregnancy outcomes. Avoiding smoking, alcohol, and minimizing caffeine intake can all lead to a shorter time to conception and healthier babies. Diet and lifestyle choices can […]
How Fast is Your Biological Clock Really Ticking?
This topic regularly comes up between old friends at lunch, over Starbucks with new friends, and certainly with our mothers: the dreaded biological clock. We are sure it is ticking, but the truth is few of us truly understand how fast, or how loud that little bugger is going. The first thing to understand is […]
The Impact of the Stillbirth Storyline on NBC’s “This Is Us”
My DVR is almost full. I’m in the middle of two Netflix series and one HBO documentary film. So when friends tell me “you’ve GOT to watch this show or that show” I just add it to my list. But when I heard about NBC’s new show This Is Us, I knew I had to […]
Behind Every Egg Is A Sperm
It’s a tenet of American culture that if you try hard, you’ll succeed. Hard work pays off. The early bird gets the worm. No goal met without sweat. But, try telling this to sperm. It’s always been thought that the best looking, fastest moving sperm wins the egg. It’s why Woody Allen in Hannah and […]
7 Ways To Help Someone Struggling With Infertility
If you have never struggled with infertility yourself, it can be hard to understand why the person you care about is so preoccupied, upset and unable to do things they used to enjoy doing. You may even worry that they are getting so depressed and withdrawn that they will never come out of it. So what can […]
How to Balance Work, Life and Fertility Treatments
Almost no one has the luxury (if you could call it that) of undergoing fertility testing and treatments without having to continue meeting all kinds of other commitments and obligations. Which means you have to fit your appointments and your blood tests and your procedures around the rest of your busy life. And if you […]
STUDY: No Link Between IVF and Breast Cancer
While you’re injecting yourself with hormones during In Vitro Fertilization, you might be wondering if the process might have any future adverse health effects. This week, there’s some good medical news to report that might be comforting for those of us who already went through IVF, those who are currently going through it or anyone […]
It Takes A Village: A Surrogacy Story
Since I was little, I knew what I wanted my family to look like – me, my husband and three children. Fast forward. I already had a fantastic husband and two beautiful little blond girls, but I didn’t feel complete. I knew I wasn’t done creating my family. Not only did I have to grieve […]
Read This Before You Take Fertility Supplements
Do you use supplements? Probably. A 2014 survey by the Council for Responsible Nutrition found that 68% of the population in the United States uses supplements. ((Council for Responsible Nutrition 2014 survey http://www.crnusa.org/CRNconsumersurvey/2014/CRN2014CCsurvey-infographic-pages.pdf )) Our stores shelves are lined with supplements touted to solve this problem, relieve that problem, restore our youthfulness and improve our […]
