A renowned fertility clinic has carried out a scientific study which claims musical vibrations increase the success of IVF. Songs from the late soul legend such as ‘Can’t get enough of you baby’ have become the most streamed music through the iPods fitted in the incubators where embryos are developing.
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Fertility Treatment: 3 In 4 Women Have a Baby in 5 Years
A new study finds that 3 in 4 women starting fertility treatment will have a baby within 5 years – and around a quarter of these will be conceived naturally.
Do Women Who Donate Their Eggs Run a Health Risk?
Maggie Eastman considers it the worst decision she ever made. In 2003, beset by $30,000 in tuition debt and imbued with a burst of altruism, Eastman, a college senior, decided to donate her eggs to help an infertile couple have a baby. Over the next decade she donated nine more times, earning a total of about $20,000 — money that helped Eastman and her then-husband buy a house.
How a Transgender Woman Could Get Pregnant
When Mats Brännström first dreamed of performing uterus transplants, he envisioned helping women who were born without the organ or had to have hysterectomies. He wanted to give them a chance at birthing their own children, especially in countries like his native Sweden where surrogacy is illegal. He auditioned the procedure in female rodents. Then he moved on to sheep and baboons. Two years ago, in a medical first, he managed to help a human womb–transplant patient deliver her own baby boy. In other patients, four more babies followed.
How a Transgender Woman Could Get Pregnant
When Mats Brännström first dreamed of performing uterus transplants, he envisioned helping women who were born without the organ or had to have hysterectomies. He wanted to give them a chance at birthing their own children, especially in countries like his native Sweden where surrogacy is illegal. He auditioned the procedure in female rodents. Then he moved on to sheep and baboons. Two years ago, in a medical first, he managed to help a human womb–transplant patient deliver her own baby boy. In other patients, four more babies followed.
Women With Severe Symptoms of Depression May Have Difficulty Getting Pregnant; It’s Not The Antidepressants
Clinical depression blankets every aspect of a person’s life, from social engagements to meals to work. The illness even reduces a woman’s chance of having a baby, according to a new study by researchers from the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine.
What’s Getting A Contraceptive Implant Like? I Got One & Here’s What Happened
Don’t want a baby and won’t for a while? We’re in a lucky position these days: women have a variety of choices for contraceptives that last beyond day-to-day use, from the ever-popular IUD to the contraceptive implant. The second option, which is marketed under the name Nexplanon or Implanon, was my chosen contraceptive choice when I decided early in 2016 to look for a more long-lasting baby-preventing alternative to the Pill. (I forget to take it. I’ve thrown it up and had pregnancy scares. It’s a pain in the neck.) So what’s the procedure actually like, and is it fundamentally bizarre to have a small matchstick-sized piece of plastic inserted into your arm casually at your doctor’s office? Answer: yes, but it’s also AWESOME.
Many Turning to Black Market for Fertility Drugs Despite Risks
For some couples desperately trying to have a baby, there is almost nothing they wouldn’t try. That includes buying fertility medications found on the black market.
For the Health of it: Contraception Only Prevention Tool to Fight Effects of Zika
The Zika virus is spread by a mosquito to a human and an infected mother can transmit it to her fetus. While the Zika virus can have devastating effects on a fetus, the symptoms are mild in an adult. It has a 3- to 12-day incubation period which produces mild flu-like symptoms such as a fever skin rash, joint pain and conjunctivitis. Many people won’t even realize they have been exposed to the virus because it causes very mild symptoms according to the Centers for Disease Control. However, if an individual is infected, they can transmit the virus to another person through sexual contact and a mother to her unborn baby. According to the March of Dimes, it is recommended that women up to eight weeks to conceive after a Zika infection. However, it is believed that the virus lives longer semen. Therefore, men infected with Zika should wait even longer before conception.
In IVF, Questions About ‘Mosaic’ Embryos
The couple wanted a baby boy, but the male embryo they had chosen — the only one available after an expensive round of in vitro fertilization — received a troubling test result. A handful of cells from the five-day-old embryo were deemed abnormal, apparently missing Chromosome 21, an absence that can lead to developmental defects.