It’s go time! An IVF cycle is like starting a new job. There’s the stress and excitement of tackling a new experience, plus the challenge of learning the “jargon” and committing to daily tasks that will involve your time and energy. This is an important time to take care of yourself. Reducing stress through physical activity (i.e.
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You’re ready to devote your time, emotional reserves, and discretionary income to getting pregnant. Up until now, your physical discomfort has been at the hands of skilled and ultra-competent healthcare professionals. You’ve endured blood draws, vaginal ultrasounds, and possibly even laparoscopic day surgeries. But that was different. Now it’s you or a significant other who will literally stick it to you.
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You may have recently seen our announcement of the first baby born from a frozen donor egg in Texas. We are so happy and proud to have been able to bring this new technology to Texas and we look forward to using it to help many more of our patients in the near future. Unless you follow this field closely,
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What We Know about Smoking and a Woman’s Fertility
It is well accepted that smoking is detrimental to ovarian function and female fertility. Smoking has been shown to be toxic to ovarian follicles and eggs, demonstrating a direct correlation between smoking and decline in fertility.
Excessive smoking is linked to the premature onset of diminished ovarian reserve (loss of eggs from the ovary) which leads to a decline in fertility.
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Up until recently, infertility was an intensely private matter. Women would go to great lengths to hide their challenges…which unfortunately led many to believe that infertility was a rare phenomenon. A refreshing thing has happened in the last 5 to 10 years. We have become more open about the issue of infertility – and many women are coming forth with their own stories.
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The IVF process can seem very overwhelming — especially if you have recently started an infertility evaluation or if you are not very familiar with the IVF process. At TFC, we make every effort to make this process as stress-free as possible. For optimal success, we want you to feel comfortable and confident proceeding with this treatment.
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One of the most daunting challenges that I face in my everyday practice is giving reliable and realistic expectations for success of various treatments, especially in older women, or women with diminished ovarian reserve. Most of the large published reports involving treatments such as surgical correction of infertility or ovarian stimulation with intrauterine insemination studied women younger than 40 years old with normal ovarian function.
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Dr. Kaylen Silverberg, co-founder of Texas Fertility Center, recently traveled to Washington to lobby the Central Texas congressional delegation in efforts to gain support for a fertility tax credit bill. This bill would provide a $13,360 tax credit to those undergoing fertility treatments, which is very similar to the $13,000 adoption tax credit currently available to those expanding their families by way of adoption.
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One of the most difficult discussions that we have with patients concerns what they should do when conventional fertility treatments have failed or are not a good option. While some patients find themselves in this situation after trying to conceive unsuccessfully with ovulation induction or even in vitro fertilization, many more patients are actually presenting to our office at their first visit with a very poor prognosis for success before they even attempt fertility treatment.
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Dr. Kaylen Silverberg was a guest speaker at the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society Meeting in Palm Springs last week. His talk was entitled Optimizing Endometrial Receptivity and he shared his experience and expertise on the evaluation of the uterine cavity prior to treatment to increase pregnancy rates with IVF. Dr. Rinku Mehta was able to attend as well.
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