This week is National Infertility Awareness Week, a time of year devoted to raising awareness about reproductive health and infertility. Infertility affects one in eight couples or 7.3 million people in the U.S. Nearly 12% of women of reproductive age experience difficulty having a baby and approximately 11.5% of Black women report infertility compared to 7% of White women.
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Hoochie Mama
by Corey Whelan
Today, I simply want to send baby dust to all my brave TTC and TTA girls.
Today, I want you to be bold
Be brave
Hold your head up
Dry your tears, or wear them proudly
March into your doctor’s office like you own the …
Test-Tube Baby Pioneer Professor Sir Robert Edwards Dies
The IVF pioneer whose work led to the world’s first “test tube baby” has died at the age of 87.
Powder Women’s Eggs for Home Storage
Just add water and sperm – any romance should be provided separately. In future, women who want to safeguard their fertility may be able to store their eggs at home as a powder. To revive them for an attempt at having a baby, all they would need to do is empty the sachet, add water, fertilize with sperm and implant the embryo.
Building Your Family Through Foster Care
The New York Times recently had a story about a man who found an abandoned baby in a New York subway. It goes on to tell how he and his partner found themselves in court 3 months later when the judge unexpectedly asked …
Why it’s important not to stress over infertility
TAMPA (FOX 13) – Many families want to add a baby to the family, but conceiving isn’t always the easiest thing to do. The CDC estimates almost seven million women have difficulty, and it’s an emotional and heartbreaking problem.
For eight years, Karen Kelly tried having a baby with her husband, but was unsuccessful. Karen visited doctors, explored in vitro, and considered adoption. She says the experience was stressful.
“You start out that marriage saying, ‘We’ll do it when we are ready’ and you think it’s going to naturally happen, then conception came, for us, an ordeal,” explained Karen. “It’s a huge issue that required medical intervention, and medical analysis to figure out what was wrong.”
Karen’s journey pointed her to a familiar face. Retired WTVT anchor Kathy Fountain now counsels women like Karen, and helps couples overcome infertility.
“The ability to conceive is such a primal instinct,” Fountain explained. “Not having a baby when you want to can cause stress and anxiety. Studies have shown infertility can cause depression, just as a woman with heart disease, AIDS, or cancer, which are the most stressful things you can go through.” Read full article.
Unspoken Emotions for New Mothers: Postpartum Blues and/or Depression
For many mothers, the only picture that they can imagine is one of themselves holding their beautiful new sleeping baby in their arms, feeling a sense of calm and accomplishment with their new life as a parent. Yet, parenthood is filled with …
Clinics to Begin Tests for Genetic Disorders in Embryos
COUPLES who want to find out if they are going to have a baby with an inherited disorder can now avail of controversial tests in Irish clinics for the first time.
Embryos produced through IVF can now be tested to show if they are free of specific disorders, such as cystic fibrosis. It means the couple can choose not to have an embryo which proves positive for the disorder implanted in the mother’s womb.
Couples previously had to go abroad for the tests, but licences have been granted to the Beacon CARE Fertility Clinic in Dublin and the Cork Fertility Clinic. Read full article.
Parenting after Infertility Groups
by Iris Waichler, L.C.S.W.
People who are undergoing infertility put all their energy into having a healthy baby. Those who are lucky enough to have a healthy child …
CIRCUMCISION: The Current Debate
by Michael Traister, M.D.
One of the most common questions I am asked by parents adopting a baby boy is “Does my baby need to be circumcised?”
The answer is not easy and evokes a lot of emotion. Last year in San Francisco, there …