Medical Conditions
Most Popular
It can be a heartbreaking scenario. A couple decides it’s time to have a baby, and it appears that all systems are go. Her menstrual cycles are fairly regular; he has a healthy sperm count. Yet, they fail to conceive. The culprit, seen in about 15 percent of infertile couples, may be low ovarian reserve—too few eggs left in the ovaries. This means that conceiving naturally is decidedly more difficult, though not necessarily impossible. READ MORE»
Sue DiMatteo and her husband Pat, of Wallingford, Connecticut, began trying to get pregnant in May 2004, not long after their wedding. The very next month, Sue, then 33, was pregnant. Everything was fine until her 20th week, when a technician performing an ultrasound suddenly left the room and returned with a doctor. Sue was told that she had no amniotic fluid. Her water had broken, and the obstetrician held out little hope that the baby would survive. Rather than terminate the pregnancy, Sue chose to be induced. “My daughter passed away during labor,” she says. “It was an experience I don’t wish on my worst enemy.” READ MORE»
It sounds like something from a horror movie, but sometimes autoimmune conditions cause the body to attack itself. Knowing how to fend off these attacks can help ensure a healthy conception and a healthy pregnancy. READ MORE»
According to a study done at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, approximately 700,000 women undergo surgical sterilization each year in the U.S.... READ MORE»
More and more options exist for preserving fertility after cancer treatment. And that means that more and more cancer survivors can now get pregnant and become biological parents. READ MORE»
Page 1 of 4
Most Popular
Quick Poll
Latest Tweets
Displaying 1 - 5 of 15 stories
You’ve only been trying for a few months, but you’re already starting to get annoyed rather than excited when you see a pregnant woman. Or you’ve been trying a lot longer. . . and you can’t even bear to look. Here’s how to get over it until it’s your turn.
Eileen Garvin of Susanville, California, became a client of a fertility clinic the way most women do—she was referred there by her ob/gyn.
Everyone knows about maternity leave, but sometimes women need to take time off before a baby arrives. If you’re having fertility treatments or trying to adopt, here’s what you should know to get the time off you need. Whether—and when—to tell your boss that you’re undergoing fertility treatments or arranging an adoption depends a lot on your relationship with your supervisor. While most workplace experts caution against revealing too much personal information, how do you explain being late for work because of blood tests and ultrasounds, and then needing to get home for hormone injections? Or what if you must travel abroad to bring home a baby, and then want three months to bond with your adopted child?
In an effort to attract patients and compete against the more-than 400 fertility centers providing IVF nationwide, fertility clinics today routinely...
As kids, we all learned about the birds and the bees. But we probably didn’t learn enough about fertility to know how babies can be conceived when nature doesn’t work perfectly.
When a couple is having trouble conceiving or carrying a pregnancy, sometimes a “third party” is enlisted to help. These women—egg donors and surrogates—are giving one of the greatest gifts of all. Find out why they do it.
By now you’ve probably heard of Clomid, the most commonly-used fertility drug in the United States. But do you really know how it works and what the possible side effects can be? If fertility drugs are your next step in the attempt to get pregnant, then here is a quick rundown of the seven medications your doctor is most likely to prescribe.
No one wants to hear a doctor utter the dreaded word “infertility.” But couples can use the diagnosis as an opportunity to learn the skills they...
