Fertility Education

After the doctor inseminates the eggs, the doctor places the healthy embryos back into the body so that they can attach to the uterus. Uterine attachment is a crucial step in the process because, without it, pregnancy won’t occur. While preparing the body for egg retrieval, patients need to focus on improving their uterine lining (endometrium).

The term unexplained or idiopathic infertility means that current technology does not have the tools for revealing the cause of infertility.  A fertility specialist works with idiopathic infertility regularly and will be able to provide options for treatment.

If you’re looking at the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF), you may have heard the phrase human preimplantation embryo development. What does that mean? How is preimplantation related to IVF treatments? Why is it important to understand how embryos develop? Here’s a quick rundown of what you need to know.

After you have completed a frozen embryo transfer, next comes the two-week wait. This is the 15-day period during which embryo implantation is expected to occur. If you become pregnant, your levels of the pregnancy hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) will begin to rise, and you will begin to notice pregnancy symptoms.

Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) has been used in the United States since 1987 to help women become pregnant. Since then, more than one million babies have been born in the US thanks to in vitro fertilization (IVF) or other methods of ART. If you have decided that ART is right for you, the next thing you will need to consider is the number of embryos to transfer during your IVF cycle.

Struggling with infertility can be very stressful for individuals and couples. It is natural to feel frustrated, overwhelmed, sad, and even angry when faced with these difficulties. Fortunately, in addition to medical treatments that attempt to alleviate the causes of infertility, there are coping techniques and resources available.

Weight can affect many aspects of the body including infertility. Learn how maintaining a healthy weight affects fertility.

In vitro fertilization, known as IVF, is a medical procedure that women and couples can use in order to conceive a child and become pregnant over 30.

What to know about egg freezing. Stall the biological clock, learning about freezing technology and when to consider freezing your eggs.

In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a complicated assisted reproductive treatment (ART) of uniting eggs with sperm outside the uterus.