Category Archives: Fertility
Male Sexual Health and Laptop Use – Is His Fertility at Stake?
When a couple is trying to conceive, there are many things they can do to improve their fertility. Eating right, regularly exercising, and getting enough sleep can all improve health and improve a couple’s fertility. Most couples know that eliminating smoking and alcohol can increase fertility and do what they can to be at optimal health. However, something that many men do every day may be decreasing their fertility, and they are completely unaware.
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Still Trying To Conceive – There Are Still Plenty Of Treatment Options
Trying to get pregnant without success is one of the most difficult situations a couple can experience. As time goes on it may seem as though your dream of a family is out of reach. If you have been trying to conceive for a long time without success, do not give up! There are a number of treatment options available to you to help you start a family.
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The Top 7 Foods To Help Boost Your Fertility
The food a woman eats can have a real effect on her overall health and fertility. Therefore, it is important to be conscious about what you are eating while trying to conceive.
Getting Pregnant After 40 – There’s Still Hope
It is common knowledge that it can be more difficult to become pregnant naturally as a woman ages. However, being over the age of 40 does not mean that a woman is unable to conceive. It is possible to become pregnant after age 40 and to start a family.
For many years, fertility treatments meant large doses of fertility medication in order to push a woman’s reproductive system. Historically, in order to participate in treatments such as IVF, women had to have low FSH levels, be below a certain age and had to be able to produce multiple eggs during a cycle. These requirements meant that women over age 40 and women who were unresponsive to fertility medication were often unable to find fertility centers who were willing to help them.
Busy With Your Career? – It May Be Time To Freeze Your Eggs
A woman’s biological clock is real. There is a natural instinct to start a family while a woman’s eggs are at their healthiest. This time frame is from a woman’s teenage years until age 35. For many women, this period of time is also when they are focused on building their career. It’s important to understand that while the quality of a woman’s eggs decreases, women are fully capable of successfully carrying a pregnancy after this age. Freezing her eggs when they are at their healthiest allows a woman to preserve her fertility. This way, she can focus on growing her career without worrying that she is sacrificing her ability to start a family.
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How To Maintain Your Sanity While Trying To Conceive
Trying to conceive and having difficulty can be very stressful, especially if you have been trying for a while without success. It is important to take care of yourself and to reduce your stress levels in order to stay healthy and increase your chances of becoming pregnant.
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Why Irregular Periods Are Not As Damaging To Your Fertility As You May Think
A normal woman’s cycle is 28 days long. While irregular periods can be a sign of a larger fertility concern, that is not always the case. As many as a third of women experience irregular periods during their fertile years. Understandably, women may find this concerning, but often the change in frequency is due to a minor issue:
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Busy With Your Career? – It May Be Time To Freeze Your Eggs
A woman’s biological clock is real. There is a natural instinct to start a family while a woman’s eggs are at their healthiest. This time frame is from a woman’s teenage years until age 35. For many women, this period of time is also when they are focused on building their career. It’s important to understand that while the quality of a woman’s eggs decreases, women are fully capable of successfully carrying a pregnancy after this age. Freezing her eggs when they are at their healthiest allows a woman to preserve her fertility. This way, she can focus on growing her career without worrying that she is sacrificing their ability to start a family.
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Too Busy To Get Pregnant? You Should Consider Egg Freezing Until Your Ready
For many women, starting a family during the time their bodies are most fertile is not ideal. Women are most fertile during between their teenage years until age 35. It is common for women to be focused on other areas of their lives during this time, wanting to wait to start a family until they are better established financially and professionally. Unfortunately, some women find it more difficult to conceive after age 35 as the quality of their eggs decreases over time. This does not have to be an issue. Freezing your eggs allows you to preserve your fertility until you are ready to start a family.
Egg freezing allows you to harvest eggs when they are at their healthiest and store them until you have decided to start a family. This procedure allows women to pursue their dreams without worrying that they are possibly sacrificing the ability to have children.
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Single Embryo Transfers: Safer IVF and Happier Couples
At New Hope, we promote single embryo transfers as a part of in vitro fertilization, or IVF, treatment. For years, couples have been told that transferring multiple embryos will provide them with the best chance of becoming pregnant. New research disputes this, with research showing that success rates with single embryo transfers rival that of multiple embryo transfers. What does increase with multiple embryo transfers is the likelihood of conceiving twins, triplets or high order multiples.
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