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What Does a Success Rate Mean to You?

Most fertility clinics include their success rates in their information about the clinic. A success rate is the percentage of successes in relation to the number of attempts. But what do those numbers mean? What does a success rate mean to you? First and foremost, it means different things depending on what the numbers are...

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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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Am I Infertile?

Infertility is often defined as not being able to get pregnant after one year of steady, unprotected intercourse if a woman is under the age of 35; or six months if she is over 35. Infertility affects both men and women equally….

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How Much Sperm Is Enough?

So often in life we are told that more is better. Sometimes there is a sufficient number or size, but because of the ?bigger is better? philosophy we overlook this. read more

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The Egg Donor Connection

In order to set the stage for Part l of this story, I want to share a a bit of my personal background in order to describe my role working with both my donors and our intended parents. read more

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This Month in Celebrity Fertility

It’s been a busy fertile month in Celebrityland. Here are some of the highlights! First, it was rumored that Jennifer Aniston was pregnant with Gerard Butler’s baby. Then, she had a secret affair with Brad Pitt resulting in a…

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Fertility Success through Visualization

In my last blog post, I talked about how to try to control the elephant inside to make real and lasting changes that you desire. It takes an understanding of how our mind works and then taming the beast to be the CEO of your…

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TV Takes on Male Factor Infertility

a blog by Michelle Ottey, PhD, Director of Operations, Fairfax Cryobank and Cryogenic Laboratories, Inc., January 10, 2010 – I am a big fan of the show How I Met Your Mother and watched the most recent episode on Monday night. …