Welcome to the Laughing IS Conceivable Valentine’s Day Min Humor Marathon: Post 4- “Right Guy, Even Wronger Restaurant” If you arrived here of your own free will, without me shoving you in this direction on one of the first 3 posts in this mini-marathon, have no fear. Read this at your leisure and if you [...]

In the spirit of the Olympics, I’ve decided to combine my two passions: Sports and Infertility. I admit, something is clearly wrong with a person who would count “infertility” as a passion. For a few years of my life it was a royal pain in the nuisance to say the least. So I guess my [...]

Parenthood for Me, Inc. promotes awareness for infertility and adoption. They have a project called Artwork for Building Families. Artists local to the Rochester, NY area donated artwork for the project. There are holiday note cards for sale. All net proceeds go toward their endowment. Parenthood for Me gives grants annually to those pursuing adoption [...]

The Top Chef host explains why her daughter was a “miraculous, happy surprise” and encourage women to start talking about infertility “I learned that it would become very, very difficult, if not impossible, for me to actually have a child of my own,” s…

Cryshouse Asks: I have been diagnosed with PCOS. Subsequent to my diagnosis, I went through ovarian drilling at the suggestion if my Dr. Three months after surgery, I got pregnant on 50mg of clomid but lost the pregnancy at 10 weeks. Other rounds of clomid were unsuccessful. That miscarriage was a year and a half [...]

If you’re my patient you’ve heard me say:  it takes 3 things to have a baby: 1. Sperm 2. Fallopian tubes that are open and 3. Ovaries that are working…….If you know everything there is to know about these three things, then you can usually figure out why you aren’t getting pregnant and then can [...]

Not everyone is fortunate enough to have insurance coverage for their infertility treatments and medications. When I added up the total amount of money I had spent during my 5 years of IUI’s, IVF’s, procedures, medications and consultations I was shocked to see that the bill for all of this closely approached 6 figures. Gulp. [...]

The IUI (intrauterine insemination) process is when a very thin flexible catheter is inserted through the cervix and washed sperm is injected into the uterus. Ideally an IUI should be performed within 6 hours either side of ovulation (for male factor infertility, some doctors believe after ovulation is better). with the sperm waiting for the [...]

LONDON — More than 30 years after the world’s first test-tube baby was born and despite modest advances, scientists are still struggling to dramatically improve the odds for infertile couples trying to have children. Though new techniques have been introduced in recent years, in-vitro fertilization remains a costly, stressful process, with only about a 25 [...]

I think we should all learn about the benefits of resveratrol. It’s present in grape skin. We  are hearing about it more and more because several animal studies have shown that it prevents development of cancers of the skin, breast, esophagus, intestine, colon and prostate. To get the same dose of resveratrol used in the [...]