MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Reports that a woman in northern Mexico is pregnant with nine babies are a hoax, health authorities said on Friday. ...
AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 04.13.2012
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...
Posted 03.21.2012
If you’re trying to get pregnant, you could help speed up conception by taking a brisk walk or lazy bike ride -- but chances are a major sporting ev...
Quora | Posted 04.29.2012
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.
Healthland, TIME | Posted 02.02.2012
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...
Mary Hinckley, M.D. | Posted 01.30.2012
Lots of us look forward to spending time with family around the holidays, but for those coping with infertility, the celebrating a child-centric holid...
MeiMei Fox | Posted 12.06.2011
This process has forced me to confront my lingering self-doubts: 'What's wrong with me? I'm a loser for being 37 and childless and alone.'
Tamara McClintock Greenberg | Posted 12.04.2011
In current times, we are aging quite diversely. While some people can enjoy the benefits of medical technology when it comes to conceiving a child, assisted reproductive technology does not work for everyone.
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 11.07.2011
Ottawa's radio Hot 89.9 is stirring up some controversy after they advertised a new contest for parents. The prize? A baby. Or, more specifica...
MeiMei Fox | Posted 11.02.2011
I've been feeling simultaneously empowered, a bit fearful, and saddened by the egg freezing process. I want to do this because it is one way in which I can take control of a situation that is otherwise in the hands of fate.
MeiMei Fox | Posted 10.25.2011
This morning, a FedEx box arrived containing $3,300 worth of medications. And so begins the process of freezing (hopefully without scrambling) my eggs.
The Huffington Post | Brenna Cammeron | Posted 09.17.2011
For most childless couples, in vitro fertilization is an effective but prohibitively expensive road to motherhood that dangles tantalizingly out of re...
Wendy Litner | Posted 09.07.2011
As my friend relayed the latest fertility news Friday, I held my phone against my shoulder so I could massage the sympathy pains out of my ovaries. "We need to do it at 9:00 so you can leave at like what, a quarter to?"
AP | By MARIA CHENG | Posted 09.05.2011
LONDON -- More than 30 years after the world's first test-tube baby was born and despite modest advances, scientists are still struggling to dramatica...
Naomi Cahn | Posted 08.24.2011
As women face the ticking of their biological clocks, they may turn to donor eggs or donor sperm to help them have children. For women (and men) in Washington State, the fertility industry is about to be transformed.
Dani Shapiro | Posted 06.13.2011
Around the time I turned 40, I went to see a therapist. My mother had recently died. My little boy had been seriously ill, and I found myself questioning everything.
people.com | Howard Breuer | Posted 05.25.2011
He made it possible for Nadya Suleman to become the "Octomom," and now he regrets it. "I'm sorry for what happened. When I look back at it, I wish I ...
Kristen Houghton | Posted 11.17.2011
Wanting a child is a personal choice and whatever option you choose is a decision only you and your spouse can make.
Dr. Maoshing Ni | Posted 11.17.2011
According to Chinese medicine, seasons really do affect fertility. Chinese medicine looks to the energetic cycles of the universe for health answers; the female and male energies rise and fall throughout the year.
Politics Daily | Posted 05.25.2011
Doctors in Britain have announced that they have figured out a process to transplant wombs that could result in healthy pregnancies -- and they estima...
Jilly Gagnon | Posted 05.25.2011
I told you not to lie to me about your family's history of kidney disease! Why you gotta play me that way? Probably have a history of cardiac incidents at a young age, too, huh?
Newsweek | Lorraine Ali and Raina Kelley | Posted 11.17.2011
But what kind of woman would carry a child to term, only to hand him over moments after birth? Surrogates challenge our most basic ideas about motherh...
Reuters | Posted 04.27.2012