“Thanks to North Hudson I.V.F. for turning a once-frustrated couple to proud parents of girl/boy twins!! Dr. Miller, Dr. Smith, Carol, and Annette truly make up The Dream Team.
Every time you walk to the grocery store, you always pass by the community park. There are always kids running around the playground, swinging from the monkey bars, and chasing after each other.
Familiar scenario: High on hopes and hormones, emotionally and physically prepared for frozen embryo transfer and just about to leave home for this aniticpated procedure, the patient receives the dreaded call from an IVF center staff-person: “Your embryos
So the love of your life came too late and your last period came too early. Pregnancy, then, must be out of the question? Not so. With the use of donor egg IVF your fantasy of family can be realized.
Infertility patients today are not the same as they were 10 years ago. Back then they were more likely to present with sadness and angst and a plea of “please find it, fix it, do something!”
Recurrent pregnancy loss or recurrent miscarriage is emotionally and physically devastating to undergo. Rarely addressed, however is the “limbo” that patients are in prior to the actual physical loss of the pregnancy.
The Fertility Clinic Success Rate and Certification Act (HR 4773) was signed into law in 1992. The Act requires IVF programs to report their success rates to the Center for Disease Control.
The shape (morphology) of a sperm is an important determinant of its fertilizability. The egg is enclosed in a protein coat called the zona pellucida (ZP).
Ever since you were a child, you knew that you were going to have a large family. You would always ‘play house’ and you would always have two daughters and two sons.
“Will you make me some magic with your own two hands?
Can you build an emerald city with these grains of sand?
Can you give me something I can take home?
As health insurance providers cut costs and maximize profits by denying access to care and treatment to their policy holders, one thing is becoming painfully obvious: you get what you pay for.
