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Most employers don’t offer the outstanding benefits of the companies highlighted in our "50 Best" feature. But if yours doesn’t, there are steps you can take to encourage your employer to bump your benefits up a notch or two. READ MORE»
Which companies were the best of the best? Here are the employers who were recognized in our rankings for the most exceptional fertility and adoption benefits. READ MORE»
Lori Beneyton, who grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania, has always been enthralled by foreign lands and cultures. She loves to travel, meet people from different countries, and learn foreign languages. But she never thought that one day she’d have this international experience right at her own kitchen table in her hometown of Hellertown, Pennsylvania. READ MORE»
Had anyone told Jennifer and Drew Bennett seven years ago that they would one day soon be juggling two corporate careers and four young children, they would have said that was an impossible dream. READ MORE»
Married in 2001, Amy and Nicholas Dill spent several years trying to have a baby. Amy had been to infertility specialists and underwent surgery to try to repair a misshaped uterus. But the surgeon determined it was a bicornuate uterus (meaning the uterus had two separate halves that shared a single cervix), and that it could not be repaired. Any pregnancy would be high-risk and likely not full-term. READ MORE»
Last year, in the introduction to our “Top Companies” section, we acknowledged that because of the economy, 2009 was a tough time to run a business. And as we worked on the story, we all hoped that things would be better by this year. Well, the economy is starting to turn around, but the change is slow. And sure enough, a weak economy has led to corporate tightening of employee benefits, according to results from the 2009 benefits survey done by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), a trade association of more than 250,000 members. According to the report, 60 percent of the surveyed organizations said employee benefits have been affected by current financial challenges. READ MORE»
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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...
