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  • Men With Reduced Fertility At Reduced Risk For Prostate Cancer
    Involuntary childlessness owing to reduced fertility is a concern for many men. However, these men do have one advantage - they run a significantly lower risk of suffering from prostate cancer. Researchers are interested in whether this phenomenon could be used in the fight against cancer. There is a clear link between male subfertility and a lower risk of p […]
  • Women Over Age 50 Not At Increased Risk During Pregnancy Via Egg Donation Compared To Younger Women
    Although women over age 50 who become pregnant via egg donation are at an elevated risk for developing obstetrical complications, their complication rates are similar to those of younger recipients, according to a study by Columbia University Medical Center researchers to be published in the February 2012 issue of the American Journal of Perinatology... […]

RSS Fertility Research

  • Dietary DHA linked to male fertility
    A certain omega-3 fatty acid is necessary to construct the arch that turns a round, immature sperm cell into a pointy-headed super swimmer with an extra long tail, according to new research. The study shows that docosahexaenoic acid is essential in fusing the building blocks of the acrosome together. The acrosome is critical in fertilization because it house […]
  • Environmental exposure to organochlorines may impact male reproduction
    Environmental exposure to organochlorine chemicals, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and p,p'-DDE (the main metabolite of the insecticide DDT) can affect male reproduction, according to new research. […]

I'm Back

Everybody needs a pick me up sometimes and my cousin did more for me than she will ever know. It is comforting to have a person “in real life” who can somewhat understand the fertility that we all share. She shares the same dreams that we all do to have her very own “little one”.
Today [...]

November 14th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Hard To Get Pregnant?! | One comment

Been Poked

Well, I am feeling tired of the needles, the pills, the calendar, the appointments, ultrasounds, and disappointments.  I have done every fertility treatment possible and now I have a storage closet full of meds and I am tired.  I wonder does God mean for some of us to adopt? Is it wrong of me to [...]

October 31st, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Hard To Get Pregnant?! | One comment

Starts and Stalls

I have to tell you “if it aint one thing, its another”. I went to the doctor last week and they found 2 renegade cysts. What this means is at the beginning of an IVF (invitro-fertilization) cycle they start by giving you birth control pills (a very low dose). When you take [...]

June 6th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Hard To Get Pregnant?! | 7 comments