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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»
By the late 1990s, Chris Hamlet, 34, a senior GIS (geographic information systems) administrator at Exceptional Software Strategies, and his wife Debra, 36, a registered nurse, had completed their family: Son Brandon was born in 1995 and daughter Megan in 1997.
Brandon had Down syndrome, and then at age 3 he began experiencing seizures. Roughly a year later, the little boy was diagnosed with Batten disease, a rare neurodegenerative disorder for which there is no cure. Both parents, it turned out, are carriers for Batten. Not wanting to pass the disease on to any more children, Chris Hamlet had a vasectomy shortly after his daughter’s birth. (She is neither ill nor a carrier for the disease.) READ MORE»
In 2006, Deutsche Bank drastically beefed up its family-friendly benefits in response to an internal analysis that revealed low retention rates of women after pregnancy.
Under the enhanced benefits package, primary caregiver leave has risen from 12 to a lavish 16 weeks for both birth and adoptive moms, while new mothers may now ease back to work over an eight-week period after maternity leave. At the same time, DB doubled its infertility benefit to $30,000. The strategy paid off. READ MORE»
When Christine Barton was growing up in a small town in Texas, she didn’t have any role models of successful high-achieving women who were having it all—high-powered career, marriage, and children.
The world opened up to Christine after she graduated from the University of Texas, won a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford (England), and then went on to an Ivy League law school (Yale University). “I never expected to have this kind of life,” she confesses. The Boston Consulting Group recruited her when she finished law school, and the 38-year-old is now a partner and managing director in Texas for the firm. READ MORE»
A few months after they married in 1989, then 29-year-old Nancy Ferrari and her husband Greg Gallagher, then 27, tried to start a family. Seven years of grueling treatments for unexplained infertility followed: Clomid, two IUIs, four IVF cycles, two GIFT (gamete intrafallopian transfer) cycles, four miscarriages.
Exhausted, the couple took a seven-year break from treatment. Then in 2005, when she was 45, Nancy discovered she was pregnant again. But at seven weeks she miscarried for the fifth time. 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...
