Fertility

This Website Encourages Women To Freeze Their Eggs

TIME Healthland | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Getting Older, Pregnancy, Grandchildren, Fertility, Children, Freezing Eggs, Starting a Family, Single Women, Family, Women News

Brigitte Adams has chosen baby names for her future son or daughter. She's already got a copy of Goodnight Moon to read to her unborn child. But that ...

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I Traveled 9,000 Miles For IVF

Adrienne Arieff | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Motherhood, My Story, Fertility, Surrogacy, Infertility, Ivf, Fertility Treatment, Women News
Adrienne Arieff

Even though I've been on planes, trains, and automobiles to get here, the full weight of my passage and of what I hope to achieve in this journey has not quite resonated until now.

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POLL: Would You Let Your Parents Pay For You To Freeze Your Eggs?

The Huffington Post | Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 05.14.2012

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There are a lot of reasons not to freeze your eggs. It involves shooting yourself up with loads of hormones. Your chances of success are greatest if y...

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Female Genitalia Carvings Are Europe's Oldest Rock Art

Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Video, Vulva, French Cave Art, Art History, Randall White, Aurignicians, Female Genitalia, European Cave Art, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Fertility, Amazing Caves, Abri Castanet, Arts News

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/14/2012 03:09 PM EDT on LiveScience The oldest rock art ever found in Europe revea...

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May Day Festivals of Flirtation, Fertility, and Sexual Frenzy

Donna Henes | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Marriage, May Day, Puberty, Fertility Goddesses, Adolescence, Ecstasy, Sex, Goddesses, Green, Flowers, Fertility, Sexuality, Trees, May Day 2012, May Pole, May Day Holiday, Mindfulness, May Day Traditions, May Day History, Gps-Soul, Healthy Living News
Donna Henes

This May Day, let us pay tribute to the Earth Mother and Her daughter goddesses of green growth by planting May trees and flowers and then dancing around them to celebrate the lovely, lusty miracle of life.

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Infertility: An Age-Old Problem

Mache Seibel, MD | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Donor Egg, Aging, Fertility, Egg Donation, Ivf, Perimenopause, Infertiliy, Women's Health, Doctor Seibel, Having a Baby, Video, Healthy Living News
Mache Seibel, MD

Although there have been tremendous advances over the past 30 years to give many couples the possibility of having a baby who might otherwise not have been able to have one, one thing hasn't changed: the impact of age.

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5 Barriers To Pregnancy Success (Besides Your Biological Clock)

The Huffington Post | Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Infertility, Infertility Treatments, Pregnancy, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Fertility, Obesity, National Infertility Awareness Week, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Black Voices News

It isn't easy getting pregnant, and there are some 7.3 million infertile women in the U.S. to prove it. For black women, trying to conceive is an even...

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Women Over Age 35 Are Having More Kids

Melanie Notkin | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Teen Mom, Childlessness, Cdc, Women's Issues, Childless, Gladys Martinez, Motherhood, Fertility, Mothers, Childbearing, Wealth, Women's Health, Teen Pregnancy, National Health Statistics Report, Family, Women News
Melanie Notkin

Marriage and unions may look different today than they did even a decade ago, but some things never change.

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'Girls' Episode 2, Recapped In Gchat

Posted 04.23.2012

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Lori Fradkin: So, here we are again ... week two ... Margaret Wheeler Johnson: I thought this episode showed much more promise and ambition than the ...

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Fertility Treatment Bans In Europe Draw Criticism

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Fertility Laws, Fertility, Fertility Laws in Europe, Fertility Treatment Bans in London, Fertility Treatments, Ivf, Fertility Treatment Ban, Parents-Pregnancy, Parents News

LONDON — More than three decades after Britain produced the world's first test-tube baby, Europe is a patchwork of restrictions for people who n...

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From Infertility to Asia: One Woman's Journey to Conceive

Layla Revis | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Travel, Fertility, Women's Health, Books, Miscarriage, Infertility, Memoir, Amerikarma, Sarah Ivens, Books News
Layla Revis

Sarah Ivens documented her journey for herself and others searching to conceive in Amerikarma: Good Things Happen to Those Who Can't Wait: one part travel memoir, one part healing.

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At 34, Am I a Hard Sell?

Natasha Scripture | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Dating Service, Professional Matchmaker, Aging, Single Women, Women in 30s, Fertility, Dating Pool, Men Dating Younger Women, Women News
Natasha Scripture

"It's biology," he said bluntly. "Everyone knows women have fewer eggs as they age."

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When is Too Early for a Fertility Test?

LearnVest | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Contraception, Women and Fertility, Birth Control, Fertility, Planned Parenthood, Fertility Testing, Women News
LearnVest

Why do so many women think they can't have kids?

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Something Like A Family

Gila Shapiro | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Single Motherhood, Single Mother, Motherhood, My Story, Fertility, Parenting, Sperm Donor, Baby, Women News
Gila Shapiro

At some point, I don't remember exactly when, I stopped replacing my fraying lacy underwear with new lacy underwear and instead bought packs of three or five single color elastic fit.

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Fertility And Me

Toni Nagy | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Family Planning, Iud, The Pill, Rush Limbaugh, Menopause, Birth Control, Fertility, Female Sexuality, Planned Parenthood, Pro-Choice, Sexuality, Republicans, Women News
Toni Nagy

There is an expiration date on my uterus, a "sell by" number on my sexuality and not much I can do to prolong it.

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How Financially Fertile Are You?

Jacoba Urist | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Women and Money, Personal Finance Advice, Money News, Retirement, Financial Goals, Fertility, Credit Card Debt, Women and Financial Security, Retirement Savings, Financial Fertility, Women-and-Saving, Personal Finance, Money News
Jacoba Urist

By the time you feel ready to get serious about your money, it may be too late to make up for lost ground. And there are no medical breakthroughs when it comes to retirement or building an adequate nest egg.

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What Are Some Specific Coping Strategies for Couples Who Are Experiencing the Emotional Pain of Infertility?

Quora | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Quora, Fertility, Fertility Treatments, Infertility, Parents News
Quora

Support your wife. She is being pumped full of hormones and has strange people poking and probing her all over. She is going though far more than you are. Keep her spirits up.

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Mercury Isn't Just a Hazard for Young Children, It's a Health Risk for Adults Too

Frances Beinecke | Posted 04.29.2012

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Frances Beinecke

Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. But mercury is also a danger for adults.

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Stem Cell Shocker Suggests New Fix For Infertility

AP/The Huffington Post | By LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 02.27.2012

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WASHINGTON -- For 60 years, doctors have believed women were born with all the eggs they'll ever have. Now Harvard scientists are challenging that dog...

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Women Aren't The Only Ones Investing In In Vitro

The Wall Street Journal | Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: In Vitro Lenders, Fertility Finance, Fertility, Fertility Investment, Women-Infertility, In Vitro Fertilization, In Vitro, Women News

Julie Barth's prayers were answered when a doctor in Crystal Lake, Ill., told her in vitro fertilization might get her pregnant. But he didn't stop...

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We Must Regulate Reproductive Technology

S. Lochlann Jain | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Fertility, Stem Cell Research, Ivf Treatments, In Vitro Fertilization, Ivf, Stem Cell Cloning, Cloning, Stem Cells, Politics News
S. Lochlann Jain

The fetuses created by IVF will ideally become healthy people. But the IVF industry needs federal oversight to ensure that the children produced have the maximum chance of growing up to be healthy adults.

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The 2nd Worst Question To Ask A Single Woman

Melanie Notkin | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Women, The Truth About Childless Women, Career Man, Childlessness, Childless, Feminist, Employment, Journal of Population Health, Fertility, Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Canada, Childless Women, Ivf, Feminism, Oprah Winfrey, Career, Career Women, Job, Single, Careers, Feminists, Women's Liberation, Women News
Melanie Notkin

When a woman is over age 30, single and childless, people want to know why. Just about everyone is just dying to know: What is she waiting for?

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5 Tips For People Of Faith Considering Reproductive Technology

Ellen Painter Dollar | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Religion and Sexuality, Gender and Religion, Infertility, Artificial Insemination, In Vitro Fertilization, Pregnancy, Fertility, Assisted Reproductive Technology, Religion News
Ellen Painter Dollar

The technologies available to people who want to have a baby but struggle to conceive naturally are many and growing, raising many vexing questions for people who want to make decisions in line with their religious faith.

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Man's Sperm Sample Destroyed By Clinic

Posted 02.13.2012

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In 1983, Shane Breen was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. He was 26-years-old and single at the time. Before he began chemotherapy treatment, the No...

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Is It Selfish To Pursue Fertility Treatments Instead Of Adoption?

Healthland, TIME | Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Having Children, Procreation, Fertility, Parenting, Fertility Treatments, Adoption, Women News

There's a reason that the desire to have children is so strong. It's got everything to do with perpetuation of the species, in the long term, and perp...

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