Those birds and bees conversations once reserved for junior high health class are now taking place between kids in the sandbox.
In the eleven years since my youngest children were born, twin daughters, thanks to IVF, who joined a similarly IVF-enabled sister, we've scarcely discussed their scientific beginnings.
By Kate Kelland LONDON | Thu May 16, 2013 7:25pm EDT (Reuters) - British fertility experts have devised a new IVF technique that takes thousan...
In celebration of National Infertility Awareness Week, here's a list of what not to say to someone going through fertility treatments.
While we were hoping for one girl, instead we got two boys. My initial reaction was full of disappointment, anger, fear, and guilt. My wife, who had been dreading the possibility of twins for weeks, took it worse.
Infertility advocate and author Fran Meadows appeared on HuffPost Live on Monday to talk about conceiving her son through in vitro fertilization (IVF)...
ANKARA, Turkey -- A hospital says a Turkish woman who became the first person to successfully receive the uterus of a dead donor may now be pregnant. ...
Adoption is a lot of things. It is a prism. It is an hourglass. It is dark cave. It is a light at the end of a terrifying tunnel. It is a beginning.
LONDON — Robert Edwards, a Nobel laureate from Britain whose pioneering in vitro fertilization research led to the first test tube baby and has ...
Feb 18 (Reuters) - Women getting fertility treatments can be reassured that in vitro fertilization (IVF) does not increase their risk of breast and ...
Feb 8 (Reuters) - The number of birth defects among multiple births such as twins and triplets increased nearly two-fold in a score of European coun...
Aside from essentially mourning a death or two each year, coping with infertility was -- and is -- a lonely, lonely place.
I think of the string of coincidence (or are they miracles?) every day.
For a while I did think I'd neatly avoided all the complexities and emotional upheaval of infertility. I was wrong. Adoption is not straightforward and it is not simple.
Isn't it ironic that as we age, for many women, getting pregnant transforms from being our greatest fear into our most burning desire? Having a baby seems like the easiest thing in the world... Until you really, really want it and find that you can't.
Why don't I get to take part in fatherhood? I'd never felt constrained by my sexuality, living on my terms and ignoring anyone who might wish less for me; but this was a limit I was placing on myself.
By: Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Writer Published: 12/21/2012 05:33 PM EST on LiveScience The way in which embryos are prepared duri...
While selecting the method of expanding one's family is a personal and sensitive matter, the relative affordability of alternative reproductive technology -- due to the recent strides in creativity -- gives the adoption process a run for its money.
By: Karen Rowan, MyHealthNewsDaily Managing Editor Published: 12/10/2012 12:26 PM EST on MyHealthNewsDaily Nearly half of women who became pregn...
Smiling babies. Confusing statistics. Talk of miracles. There is too little oversight of how fertility clinics market themselves online, a new report ...
Leah Campbell joined HuffPost Live Nancy Redd to share her heartbreaking story of infertility after successfully donating eggs to other families. C...
I have always known I wanted another baby, I just felt like the table, van and house were missing someone.
Note breakout at end; 23 inches without breakout.(AT) By PAUL EGAN Detroit Free Press LANSING, Mich. -- A case of whether children conceived throug...
In my opinion, there's always been an expectation that because of biological determination, women are naturally supposed to forgo some of their own dream and ambitions for the sake of childrearing because the ol' clock is ticking.
As things begin to normalize in the Northeast and we begin to reassemble our lives, here's the realization that I came to: life happens. Life is going to turn out how it does. It's who I'm being that makes the difference.
