Should I Use My Eggs or Donor Eggs?
About ten percent of all the happy babies you see after IVF are from donor eggs. This is usually not public information, as it is a private matter. Parents rarely tell friends and often not relatives. Therefore it is difficult to get a direct perspective from your friends or acquaintances who may have considered the […]
Fertility Preservation Options After that Life-Changing Cancer Diagnosis
Oncologists are working closely with reproductive endocrinologists to provide options for fertility preservation. Being diagnosed with cancer can be frightening and will bring up a variety of what ifs. One of those questions is “Will I be able to have children in the future?” This question seems to be one of increasing importance among young […]
DNA Testing Makes Anonymous Egg and Sperm Donation Obsolete
DNA Testing services like 23andMe make it difficult to keep biological parent identity secret, so we now suggest that patients use donors who will release their identity. In the past, adoption, sperm and egg donation were considered to be family secrets. All of this is changing dramatically due to elective DNA testing. Janine Dzyubanny knew that she had been […]
Low AMH – Intriguing Help for the Future with Co-Q 10
Low AMH and Infertility Advanced reproductive age or low AMH (low ovarian reserve) in the field of IVF for infertility means there are lower than ideal numbers of eggs and lower numbers of embryos. The quality of embryos is lower. Importantly, there is an increased risk of pregnancy losses, particularly due to abnormal chromosomes in […]
Donor Eggs & Good News for Women Over 50
Donor eggs are helping more women over 50 to be moms. It is becoming more common for women who are fifty years old or older to decide they want to have a baby. Sometimes the circumstances involve second or late marriages. More often, it is single women coming forward for donor egg and donor sperm […]
The Psychological Aspects of Egg Donation
When you are first told that you need to consider egg donation, it can be hard to hear. There is a lot to think through. It is a challenge to make the shift emotionally and to figure out who in your social circles to tell, and how and when to tell your egg-donor child. Egg […]
HCG Injection Before Embryo Transfer Improves IVF Results
Our pilot study involving human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) to enhance implantation may well be the key to improving “persistently inefficient” IVF Our doctors have always been a part of leading research on new techniques to improve in vitro fertilization (IVF) results. Recently, our doctors have been part of a clinical study to improve embryo implantation results. Across […]
