Cuando una mujer está embarazada es común que se le haga una y otra vez la misma pregunta, “¿qué te gustaría tener, niño o niña?”. Y aunque lo único que verdaderamente les importa a las mamás es tener un bebé sano, sí sucede que la pareja fantasea en cómo sería su vida si tuvieran una...
Author: Scott (Scott Webb)
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Dr. Jane Frederick spoke about PCOS in Today’s Parent USA.
Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a condition that affects a woman’s menstrual cycle, fertility, hormones, insulin production, circulatory system, and appearance. Women have both male and female hormones, but women who have PCOS have higher levels of male hormones and experience irregular or absent menstrual cycles and small cysts on their ovaries. It is estimated...
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Having a Baby when you have Endometriosis
Can I still have a Baby with Endometriosis? If you have been diagnosed with infertility associated with endometriosis, you probably have a lot of questions. What is it? What caused it? What are my treatment options? And more importantly, can I still have a baby? The answer to the last question is—yes! Natural conception is still...
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How Acupuncture Benefits Infertility
Does Acupuncture Help Infertility? Today many infertility doctors are recommending acupuncture to their patients undergoing infertility treatments. Acupuncture, an ancient Chinese medical treatment, involves the insertion of fine, yet painless needles, into the body to stimulate specific areas known as energy points. According to ancient Chinese wisdom, these energy points are believed to regulate the physical, spiritual, mental...
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PCOS: A common cause of infertility and pregnancy complications
Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a condition that affects a woman’s menstrual cycle, fertility, hormones, insulin production, circulatory system, and appearance. Women have both male and female hormones, but women who have PCOS have higher levels of male hormones and experience irregular or absent menstrual cycles and small cysts on their ovaries. It is estimated...
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How Yoga Benefits Fertility
What is Yoga? Developed over 5,000 years ago, yoga combines the physical practice of postures, known as “asana,” the breathing practice called “pranayama,” and meditation. Yoga literally means “union” and the goal of practicing is to create a union and a harmony between the body and the mind. As you go deeper into your practice...
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How Stress Affects Your Body
Stress and Fertility In 1998, at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine in San Francisco, California, Alice Domer and her colleagues from Harvard University presented the results from their study “Impact of group psychological interventions on pregnancy rates in infertile women.” The study concluded that stress reduction increases pregnancy rates in...
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Fertility Preservation in Cancer Patients
As frightening as a cancer diagnosis is, learning that you will never be able to have children can be equally devastating. In fact, just a few years ago, women undergoing cancer treatments had limited to no options at all for preserving their future fertility. Unlike men, who have long been able to bank sperm for...
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Round Two
So here you are. Financially poorer and not pregnant after your fertility evaluation cycle. Perhaps your period started, or, like me, you took hourly home pregnancy tests long before the test could have picked up the tiniest…
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Today’s Video: What is a Semen Analysis?
Dr. Isaac Kligman, a New York fertility doctor with the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility in Manhattan, explains how a semen analysis is done and evaluated as part of a fertility workup.