by Shannon M. Clark | Apr 25, 2020 | Fertility
Planning for a baby can be exciting — but also, at times, overwhelming. With more resources about parenting and pregnancy available than ever before, it’s easy to get lost in a mountain of information about what happens after you learn you’re expecting, from...
by Shannon M. Clark | Apr 13, 2020 | Fertility
Janet Jackson officially acknowledged her first pregnancy Wednesday at age 50. More women are holding off pregnancy until 35 or older, so we had some questions about the risks involved in getting pregnant at “advanced maternal age.” Is it dangerous to have...
by Ronald Feinberg | Apr 5, 2020 | Fertility
In a poignant New York Times interview in 2010 with the highly revered Dr. Howard Jones, he asserted, “Fertility investigators today should figure out which one embryo is likely to make a baby rather than transfer several. That will reduce costs, the number of...
by Shannon M. Clark | Apr 3, 2020 | Fertility
As a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist, I deal with all things pregnancy-the good, the bad and the complicated. As a result, I have diagnosed and counseled many women over the years with a positive pregnancy test but never had a pregnancy develop. It is a hard...
by Sara Mucowski | Mar 25, 2020 | Fertility
All too often popular culture makes IVF seem like the miracle cure-all for fertility problems, especially as women age. We are bombarded with images of glowing celebrities in their 40s, or even older, cradling their baby bump or with a “miracle” newborn in...
by Aspire Fertility | Mar 23, 2020 | Fertility
The IVF process can be emotionally, financially, and physically stressful. In addition to these stress points, there is also a learning curve, as there are many new medical fertility terms related to IVF treatments that most people do not understand initially....