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1 10 Celeb Moms Who've Opened Up About Miscarriage
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2 8 Fertility Methods For Aspiring Parents
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3 How to Identify Your Fertile Days
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4 Infertile and Proud: The Growing Women's Movement to Destigmatize Infertility
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5 Would You Marry Someone Who Is Infertile?
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7 Would You Tell Your Significant Other About Infertility?
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8 Babies Don't Always Come Easy
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9 When Are You Going to Have a Baby?
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10 Don't Let Daddy's Laptop Lead to Infertility
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11 The Price of Infertility
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12 How Would You Handle the Implant of Wrong Embryos?
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13 Wombing It Up in India
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14 Test Your Knowledge of Common Infertility Mistakes
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15 Illegal to Implant an Embryo with a Genetic Abnormality?
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16 Would You Delay Having Babies If You Knew You Could?
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17 Infertility: Acupuncture
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18 Should Doctors Work to Reduce Embryo Transfers?
Jay-Z's instant hit, "Glory," not only celebrated the birth of baby Blue Ivy, it cracked open a window into the lives of two of the hip-hop world's biggest stars. While rapping about his amazement over the birth of his daughter, Jay-Z also revealed that Beyoncé suffered a painful miscarriage before this pregnancy. While many mamas keep their road to pregnancy private, others are very open about Read more
Go sperm! We tend to think of infertility mainly as an affliction of the fairer sex, but this is far from the truth: the last 50 years have seen an increase in the problem of male infertility coinciding with a huge decrease in reported sperm counts. A major breakthrough was made recently as German and Israeli scientists grew mouse sperm outside of the body using just a few cells retrieved from Read more
We're happy to present this article from one of our favorite sites, Yahoo! Shine: There was a time, not so long ago, when infertility was something whispered under pitying, gossip-ful coffee breath. "That's Rose's daughter, she can't have a baby" or "They keep trying, but something's wrong." These days, many women are sick of the whispers. They're infertile and they're not ashamed. The Read more
Step right up folks, and win a baby! Well, not a baby exactly, but an increased chance at baby via free IVF treatments. Last month, a private Ottawa radio station ran a Win a Baby contest, offering $35,000 worth of IVF treatments to the couple that convinced both listeners and a panel of judges that they were the most worthy of the prize. For desperate would-be parents unable to afford the pricey Read more
"We're not barren, we're reproductively challenged!" snaps Charlotte York in Season 4 of Sex and the City, her response to future ex-husband Trey's insensitive comment about the couple's apparent inability to conceive. Like Charlotte and Trey, fertility is an issue for many prospective parents. Individual reasons for using Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) run the gamut from health Read more
Wearing a cup while playing sports and avoiding hot baths before sex used to be the only advice men were given to prevent fertility issues. With one in six couples now having trouble conceiving after a year of trying, it's no wonder that younger men and women are seeking to prevent infertility even before they are ready to become parents. A recent article in The Wall Street Journal identified Read more
Visit a baby music class and you might think everyone is using IVF these days. According to Fertility Nation, the numbers aren't quite that high across the entire country, but they are in some locales. Based on their research, women in Washington DC turn to IVF to overcome fertility issues more than any other state in the country, with 227 births out of every 100,000 conceived via the treatment Read more
The path to pregnancy is often impeded by speed bumps and detours taking couples on a long and bumpy ride. Couples facing fertility problems not only put their heart and soul into their efforts, but their wallets too. I recently came across an article where a woman who'd been trying to conceive for years found herself anxious and unhappy once she saw the double line on the pregnancy test. After Read more
Are items in your home keeping you and your partner from filling it with children? You will be surprised to find out which standard products might affect your fertility. In a soon-to-be released book, titled The Healthy Home: Simple Truths to Protect Your Family from Hidden Household Dangers, Dr. Myron Wentz and his son Dave Wentz talk about common household items that may pose problems. Test Read more
I can't wait for 2011, so we can stop celebrating the pill's 50th birthday. She's like that friend who parties all month long, except in this case it's a year. The world's largest manufacturer of off-brand pills threw it a party, we learned some history, and Fit tested our knowledge, so now it's time to for the backlash. So let's talk about the one side effect you can't feel: infertility. To be Read more
