Do you want a baby someday, but you aren’t ready yet? Perhaps you are building your career, looking for the right partner, or enjoying some one-on-one time with your love before jumping onto the baby bandwagon? “Of course I have plenty of time,” you’re probably thinking, but the truth is, women only have a finite number of eggs and their numbers drop steadily from the time a girl is born.
Month: January 2014
Breeding For High Milk Production Created Less-Fertile Cows
After generations of careful breeding, dairy cows around the world produce more milk than ever. At the same time, they’ve actually become less fertile, a phenomenon farmers and researchers have worried about for years.
Melbourne Sperm Donor Dad Gets Access to Daughter Despite Objections of Lesbian Parents
A Melbourne sperm donor dad has been granted access to his daughter despite the objections of her lesbian parents to his youthful partying ways.
Egg Donation Enabled Me to Have the Family I Had Longed For
In the past, women with poor-quality or scarce eggs would have had to accept that they’d never have a baby, or else start thinking about adoption.But these days there’s another increasingly popular option — egg donation.
Fighting Obamacare’s ‘Contraception Mandate’
The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily exempted two Catholic Church-affiliated nonprofits from requirements to provide contraceptive coverage to its employees under the Affordable Care Act.
The Battle Over Female Viagra Ensues
“Hopefully, 2014 will be the year of the woman,” says Irwin Goldstein, hardly masking his frustration by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recent rejection of a treatment for female sexual dysfunction.
Gay Women’s Gathering Comes Back to Brooklyn
by Corey Whelan
I am a Brooklyn girl. Just ask my accent! But seriously, very little in life touches me more than working with the mostly young, unanimously optimistic and vibrantly life-loving lesbian community of my own borough. They bring …
CDC Resources Aid Contraceptive Selection
Pop quiz: Do you know which contraceptive methods are safe for women who are postpartum or who smoke? How about for women who have diabetic nephropathy or migraine with aura?Handy online tools and smart-phone apps from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now offer recommendations for contraceptive choices.
West Coast Doctor Helps LGBT Families Have Children
At the Southern California Reproductive Center, Dr. Shahin Ghadir and his fellow fertility specialist partners are a part of that process — about 20 percent of the couples who see them for help expanding their family are LGBT.
Low T Therapy: Is It for Me?
Despite widespread ad campaigns, testosterone replacement isn’t a panacea, but can help some men, experts say.