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1 11 Celeb Moms Who've Opened Up About Miscarriage
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2 Trying to Get Pregnant? Test Your Fertility IQ
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3 8 Fertility Methods For Aspiring Parents
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4 Male Infertility Explained: Test Your Knowledge of the Causes
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5 Don't Let Daddy's Laptop Lead to Infertility
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6 Believe It or Not, Ripley's Is Helping Women Get Pregnant
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7 How to Identify Your Fertile Days
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8 New Hope For Infertile Men as Scientists Grow Sperm Outside Body
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9 Babies Don't Always Come Easy
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10 Would You Marry Someone Who Is Infertile?
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11 When Are You Going to Have a Baby?
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12 The Price of Infertility
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13 How Would You Handle the Implant of Wrong Embryos?
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14 The Dos and Don'ts of What to Say to a Friend Who's Had a Miscarriage
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15 Wombing It Up in India
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16 Test Your Knowledge of Common Infertility Mistakes
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17 Illegal to Implant an Embryo with a Genetic Abnormality?
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18 Would You Delay Having Babies If You Knew You Could?
Whether you've experienced a miscarriage of your own or had a friend struggle with losing a baby, you know what a difficult and emotional time it is. Knowing what to say and how to react with sensitivity and compassion is an incredible skill to have as a friend. We chatted with Robbie Miller Kaplan, author of How to Say It When You Don't Know What to Say: The Right Words For Difficult Times — Read more
In honor of National Infertility Awareness Week, which is coming up on April 22-28, Fertility Centers of Illinois published the results of a new public study on the issue. The results? Most respondents were largely unaware of their own bodies' reproductive happenings, and the prevalence of infertility. And the takeaway? If you've been fighting your own battle with trying to conceive, you're not Read more
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
