by Corey Whelan
Blame it on the biological imperative but for many women, the desire to have a baby becomes undeniable somewhere between their late twenties and early forties. Those first ticks of the biological clock may sound like a boom, but …
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New CDC Recommendation: One-Time Hepatitis C Test for Baby Boomers
Current CDC recommendations focus on testing individuals with known hepatitis C risk factors. However, more than 75% of American adults with hepatitis C are baby boomers and baby boomers are five times more likely than adults of other ages to be infected. Likely reasons for this disproportionate infection rate are that this generation may have received blood transfusions before screening of the blood supply began 20 years ago and because they came of age before HIV brought awareness of the risks of unprotected sex and needle sharing.
The infertility work-up: a guide for lesbians
by Corey Whelan
When couples decide that yes, it’s time to have a baby, many excitedly set the stage for that first, heady, baby-making sexual encounter with a candle-lit dinner, soft, romantic music, and fingers crossed. For hopeful moms who …
Can you help us Fund our Baby- Making Project Please?
by Fenella Das Gupta, PH.D., Neuroscience
The Campaign Ad:
“ We started off like most other couples. First we dated, then we married, and then started talking about having a baby. One baby would make our family complete but, we’ve …
Some things are worth the wait — even a 22-year wait
We thought we’d end the week with a wonderful, inspiring story: Did you read the news this week in the Daily Mail, a UK newspaper and site, about a woman who tried for 22 years to get pregnant, to no avail, but at the age of 43 she conceived and delivered a beautiful baby girl?
The Daily Mail reported on Monday that Paula Lackie was told at the age of 21 that she’d never conceive naturally, thanks to damage done to her Fallopian tubes by endometriosis. She went on to adopt two children. To make matters more challenging, Lackie’s second husband, Grant, could not conceive with his first wife, for unknown reasons. But Lackie’s grandmother became pregnant at 43 — Paula’s age now — so Paula always held out hope she could get pregnant naturally, the site reported.
And indeed she did: In April the couple welcomed baby daughter Isla, weighing 7 pounds.
What inspiring stories have you heard about someone having a baby even when the odds were against them?
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New Fertility Monitoring Service Boasts Remarkable Success Rate
While some parents are able to have a baby the old-fashioned way, for other Bay Area couples, getting pregnant can become difficult and stressful as careers delay parenthood and biological clocks tick away.
After IVF Some Couples Get Pregnant Without Help
Despite the label of being “infertile,” some couples who have tried fertility treatments are later able to have a baby naturally, according to a new study from France.
What to Pack When You’re Adopting a Child Abroad
Traveling abroad to adopt a child is hardly an ordinary trip overseas. This pediatrician and adoptive parent recommends what to bring for a happy and successful journey.
Medical Supplies To Pack
Most children adopted internationally come from remote regions of the world with little access to modern medical care. Pharmacies in these places are often woefully understocked, and if they have antibiotics available they are usually in pill form only, which makes them difficult to administer to a baby or young child. Does that mean you should carry antibiotics with you when you travel to get your child? Yes. Clearly, it’s ideal for a child’s illness to be properly diagnosed before starting an antibiotic, but “ideal” is often unattainable when traveling overseas. It’s much simpler to bring basic medical supplies with you than to try to find them when you arrive.
PLAN TO PACK:
- Children’s acetaminophen (Tylenol), children’s ibuprofen (Motrin or Advil)
- An antihistamine suspension (Benadryl)
- A bulb syringe (for nasal congestion)
- Saline nose drops
- A medication dosing syringe
- Bottles or powdered packets of pediatric electrolyte (these can be mixed as directed with safe drinking water and given to prevent dehydration in kids who are vomiting or have diarrhea)
- A digital thermometer
- Vaseline or K-Y Jelly (for lubricating the thermometer if needed)
- A nasal decongestant (Children’s Sudafed)
- Diaper cream
- A child’s growth chart (pediatrician can provide)
- A cloth or paper tape measure so that you can plot growth parameters (a head circumference is easily obtained by placing a tape measure from the most prominent part of the forehead to the most prominent part of the back of the head)
- A developmental milestones chart (for the general age group of your child)
- Prescription medications, obtained from a pediatrician before your trip. These should include an antibiotic in powder form so it doesn’t need refrigeration (make sure you have instructions for how to mix it with safe drinking water and how to dose it if necessary)
- Antibiotic eye drops for pink eye
- Elimite cream to treat head lice or scabies
This ConceiveOnline.com article originally appeared in a 2006 issue of Conceive magazine.
Beating Infertility: We Will Become Parents, No Matter What
We almost broke up trying to get pregnant, but now we’re willing to try anything to have a baby.
Why Women (and Men) Get Baby Fever
It started with a TV commercial. I can’t remember what was being advertised. All I know is that it showed a father holding a newborn baby, and I started to cry — not out of sadness, but awe. A baby, a beautiful baby!