The 40 Year Old (IVF) Virgin
People can be extremely judgmental when it comes to pregnancy and age! Judgmental if they think someone is too young and judgmental if they think someone is too old. As an IVF coordinator, I see patients of ALL ages.
Freezing Your Eggs: 5 Things You Should Look for in a Clinic
You want to freeze your eggs? Good for you! Way to take charge of your reproductive potential and plan for your future. It is liberating and exciting to do so, but can also be a very involved process and stressful time in your life. You need to educate yourself and go in with eyes wide open.
The Ways Chronic Stress Can Affect Your Fertility: Part 3
It’s been long known that stress raises blood pressure. The (very intelligent) reason for this is that you’re not much good to fight, or run, for your life if your blood is all pooled deep within your internal organs. So, a stressful situation will trigger a rise in blood pressure to push blood upwards to your brain and sensory organs, and outward to your limbs and muscles. In other words, get ready to fight or run like heck.
The Ways Chronic Stress Can Impact Your Fertility: Part 2
If you read part one of this three-part series, The Ways Chronic Stress Can Severely Impact Your Fertility, you have a good understanding of one of the most common ways stress alters fertility through abnormal cortisol production. This article discusses two additional ways that chronic stress affects fertility, and they are just as common and just as potentially disruptive as the first one–sleep disturbances and low progesterone.
The Ways Chronic Stress Can Impact Your Fertility: Part 1
It’s simply a fact. Chronic, unmanaged stress impacts EVERY aspect of health in a negative way. Perhaps nobody hears “just relax” more than the infertile couple, particularly the female partner who is having difficulty conceiving.
