Texas Fertility Center has initiated a peer support group that was developed to help couples and individuals trying to conceive cope with the struggles fertility treatments can often cause. The goal is to help patients find “friends” going through infertility treatments and give them an outlet to discuss their feelings with others who understand what they are going through.
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A question I hear rather frequently is “How long can embryos be frozen and still be okay?” This topic usually arises when a couple is going through IVF and trying to envision a future with a child from a fresh cycle and “siblings” in cold storage. The answer has always been “Well, we have someone who had a baby after 5 or 6 years being frozen,” because honestly,
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So, you’ve come in for your first appointment and you walk away with a list of specific tests you are supposed to have done. You are trying to figure out what these tests will tell us and why you have to do them in the first place. The infertility process is not the same for every person who comes into the office.
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Recently, I saw a new patient who wanted to be evaluated for difficulty in becoming pregnant. She told me that a close friend of hers had recently delivered a baby with a genetic disorder. The patient seeking our assistance was very worried about having a similar experience.
It turns out that the patient’s friends (both the man and the woman) were carriers of a recessive gene that combined during fertilization.
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How many times have you heard, “Just relax and you’ll get pregnant, it’ll happen when you least expect it”? For many couples, these comments that are not meant to be hurtful can be the ones that hurt the most. Many people who have not struggled with infertility don’t truly understand the magnitude of the process which leads to common myths being passed on as truths.
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You’ve been trying to get pregnant but have not been successful. Your mind is racing trying to figure out what to do and how to fix this. You remember as a young woman being on the birth control pill and you now realize how hard it is to get pregnant and wonder why that was necessary.
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We’ve gotten a few questions about egg development this week.
Here are the questions, followed by the answers:
1. How many eggs do I have?
Women are born with all of the eggs (oocytes) that they will ever have. In fact, approximately 20 weeks before a female child is delivered,
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