
Coping with Infertility
When getting pregnant doesn’t happen easily, it may come as a surprise. But when pregnancy is unattainable after repeated fertility treatments, the stress can precipitate
When getting pregnant doesn’t happen easily, it may come as a surprise. But when pregnancy is unattainable after repeated fertility treatments, the stress can precipitate
Barring some unexpected scientific breakthroughs, pregnancy will always be a woman’s job. A man can feel a baby kick and love it before it’s born,
If you’re old enough, you may remember all the hoopla about “test-tube babies” when the first child was conceived outside a woman’s body in 1978.
From a man’s point of view, starting a family is easy. While women are on the job for nine months, men can often complete the
In the early 2000’s, women in New York and other U.S. cities got a less-than-gentle reminder about age and fertility: bus-size billboard ads trumpeting “Advancing
The concept I describe most frequently to anyone interested in fertility is that of ovarian reserve, or the “egg factor.” As of this writing we
For as long as people have been having children, they’ve been trying to understand the mystery of fertility. We’ve come a long way, but many
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) revolutionized treatment for male infertility. The procedure, introduced in 1992, involves taking single motile sperm and directly injecting the sperm into
What is DES? DES is short for diethylstilbestrol, a synthetic estrogen commonly prescribed to help prevent miscarriage and other problems with pregnancy during the years