For some women, pregnancy is challenging. With oil-based hysterosalpingograms, you can identify potential fertility challenges and treat them accordingly. If you are a woman looking to enhance fertility, you may be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of conditions that cause infertility, let alone ... Read More
Courtesy Monica Cox, FDN-P, Fertility Health Coaching Before I went into my first round of IVF, I thought I was fit and healthy and we were just one of those couples who were diagnosed with unexplained infertility. So I gave no thought into the importance of egg and sperm health and had no clue to ... Read More
Scientists have made advancements in restoring fertility post chemotherapy. The key lies in printing organs like ovaries and implanting them in the body. Infertility affects approximately one-tenth of all women of childbearing age in the United States, according to the Center for Disease Control. ... Read More
Courtesy Monica Cox, FDN-P, Fertility Health Coaching An autoimmune disease is a condition where the body cannot tell the difference between healthy tissue and foreign invaders. Your immune system becomes “touchy”—to say the least—and starts to overreact and self-attacking. This could have been ... Read More
Recurrent miscarriages can be physically draining and emotionally devastating. In some cases, a miscarriage occurs so early in the pregnancy that the woman doesn't even know she's pregnant. A first miscarriage increases the risk of another, although very few women miscarry twice in a row. ... Read More
A new egg freezing technique has been developed that has a 100 percent success rate of the eggs surviving after being thawed. Why Do Some Women Freeze Their Eggs? Egg freezing is a reproductive technology that can have an array of benefits. A woman may choose to have her eggs frozen for many ... Read More
Couples struggling to have a baby are often diagnosed with infertility, but no genetic cause can be identified. A research group from Baylor College of Medicine, headed by Dr. Ignatia Van den Veyver, recently published a paper that identifies how gene mutations in the Nlrp2 and Nlrp7 genes cause ... Read More
A newly developed fertility treatment involving blood plasma could mean the possibility of pregnancy for post-menopausal women. Fertility Decreases with Age If a woman wants to conceive a biological child of her own, she has the best chance of success in her early 20s when the average fertility ... Read More
