Preparing for your IVF treatment

Your Emotional Preparedness:
There are many complex emotions that you will be encountering as you are anticipating your IVF cycle. If you are using donor eggs, donor sperm, or a surrogate, the emotions that you have will be even more splintered, as you also must consider the weight of genetics in this equation.
Before you proceed with [...]

The success rates of gestational surrogacy cycles

In India, especially in Mumbai, gestational surrogacy is helping many couples have children, which may not have been possible in the past.
At Rotunda, we have tripled our gestational surrogacy cycles in 2008, in conjunction with achieving exceptionally high success rates. Our success rates with fresh surrogacy cycles average around 50% per embryo transfer, and [...]

Equal access to IVF for lesbian couples and single women

New laws that grant lesbian couples and single women equal access to IVF have been passed by MPs voting in Victoria’s Parliament. The Assisted Reproductive Treatment bill was approved by 47 votes to 34, in a three day debate that lasted in the early hours. It will now be debated in the Upper House before [...]

Widow claims human right to use dead husband’s sperm

 
The UK’s High Court has ruled that it may have been unlawful for a widow to have removed her dead husband’s sperm. Despite UK law requiring valid written consent for the storage and use of sperm, the 42-year-old widow obtained emergency Court permission to have sperm collected from her 31-year-old husband’s body hours after he [...]

Ovarian stimulation before IVF ‘does not influence birthweight’

German investigators claim they have produced “robust” evidence that ovarian stimulation for IVF does not influence the birthweight of resulting babies.
Singleton children conceived through IVF have lower birthweights, on average, than their naturally conceived counterparts, and it has been hypothesized that ovarian stimulation could be a cause.
To find out, Georg Griesinger (University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein) [...]

Pregnancy and Diabetes

In the past, women with diabetes suffered many problems during pregnancy, including a high rate of miscarriages and birth defects. Today, however, with good prenatal care and careful self-management, there’s no reason women with type 1 or type 2 diabetes can’t have a safe pregnancy and a healthy baby.
Risks involved 
While it’s common for diabetic [...]

Foods That Make You Fertile

Successful marathon runners know that to make it to the end of a race, good nutrition is critical — from the “I’m in training” trail mix to that carb-loading dinner the night before the big run. Like the marathoner, you can use food to boost your chances of making it to the finish line, whether [...]

Many women would ask a male friend to father their child

A survey of 3,103 men and women, has found that 45 per cent of women surveyed would consider asking a male friend to father their child in the absence of a suitable partner.
The report by the company reveals that both men and women have concerns about fertility issues, with two thirds of the women [...]

Uterus Size May Predict Risk for Premature Twins After IVF

The size of a woman’s uterus can predict whether she is at risk of having very premature twins after IVF treatment, researchers have discovered.

IVF is a treatment given to women to increase their chances of getting pregnant. During treatment, a woman is given drugs to stimulate ovulation and her eggs are removed from the ovaries. [...]

Fertility a matter of mind as well as body

Infertile women’s brains – and not just their bodies – may be blocking them from conceiving a baby, a new book says.
 Some women may be sabotaging their chances of having a baby by failing to address their emotional needs, according to Melbourne author Michaela Ryan. Her new book, Trying to Conceive, tells 15 stories of [...]