I have seen so many patients this week of age over 43 desiring fertility that I decided it would be useful to write a blog about it. Unfortunately many women as well as their primary care providers or even obgyns are unaware of the profound impact of a woman’s age on fertility. As a woman gets older,
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We often have patients who present to us after having tried conventional and alternative treatments for infertility. Some of the alternative treatments may have included herbs, and patients often want to know our opinion on continuing to use these.
The docs at TFC recognize the potential benefit of combing ‘Western’ and ‘Eastern’ treatments,
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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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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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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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