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You Have an Inverted Chromosome

5/21/12 7:30pm by Life and Love in the Petri Dish
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Sometimes the challenges on the road to parenthood feel so overwhelming that we just want to give up. Imagine you'd finally found the perfect egg donor only to discover that one of her chromosomes was inverted and she was no longer a suitable candidate?  Read more

Treating Endometriosis Without Hurting Your Fertility

5/15/12 9:15am by Single Infertile Female
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I do wonder what would have happened if we had looked at more natural options for stage IV endometriosis from the start. Obviously, you can't look back like that. The world is full of what-ifs. But now that I'm treating it naturally, it's kind of nice to know that my body is capable of doing what it's supposed to do all on its own.  Read more

Infertile Shouldn't Mean Replaceable

5/4/12 8:00am by Melissa Ford
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Marit & Toomas Hinnosaar (Flickr)

The National Zoo in Washington DC may be getting a new female panda because the one they have hasn't been able to produce more cubs after one successful pregnancy. I can't help but feel sad about this. I am an infertile woman who was successful with treatments the first time around. I am an infertile woman who has not been able to get pregnant again since. The message being inadvertently given by zoo researchers is that this panda is worthless if she can't reproduce.  Read more >

The War Being Waged Against Knowledge and Female Autonomy

3/5/12 8:07pm by avflox
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Rush Limbaugh's so-called apology isn't an apology at all. It's a way to move the limelight away from his evident bias, except he fails when this this bias crops up again in the second paragraph of his statement, in which Limbaugh disregards, once again, the many other uses for contraceptive pills, and dismisses women's concerns outright as something not worthy of being heard by the government.  Read more >

Does Wi-Fi Nuke A Man's Sperm?

12/14/11 10:46am by scicurious
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There was small rumble about it in the news on Monday, but that rumble was from Reuters, and pretty soon it was EVERYWHERE. The BBC, even YAHOO had something about it: the WI FI is coming for our men's SPERM! No one's sperm is SAFE! WHATEVER SHALL WE DO!?!?! I'll tell you what we shall do. We shall look at this paper, and we shall READ it. And we will point the bright light of SCIENCE at it and find out if it's true that WI FI nukes human sperm.  Read more >

E!'s Giuliana Rancic Announces Double Mastectomy

12/8/11 8:38am by greetingsfromtexas
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Giuliana Rancic

This week Giuliana Rancic made an announcement that she'll be undergoing a double mastectomy. Having experienced my own slew of cancer drama, I just want to say how nice it was to have a relatable, inspiring spokesperson for this sort of thing.Recently at MD Anderson, the hospital I attend, I witnessed a vast display of quilts - all made in the name creating ovarian cancer awareness. (My particular disease.) While quilts are nice (I guess?), I really had a hard time feeling connected to them. I mean, they're quilts.  Read more >

When Grace is Gone

9/12/11 7:32am by Vinobaby
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Her name was Ava Grace and looking back now, I realize she wasn't meant to be... The name was not definite —  it could have been Mia or Sera or Julia or even Jack as well — but the image of her was fully formed in my mind. Strawberry blond pigtails bounced as she giggled at  kisses blown on her belly; a smattering of inevitable freckles danced across her nose and cheeks;  her dimpled hands grasped a pink blankie, her fingers working the silky fabric as she drifted of to sleep.  Read more >

How Much Health Information Should You Share on the Internet?

8/17/11 6:00am by Hannah Wept, Sarah Laughed
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Hannah Wept, Sarah Laughed unpacks what it means to be a health blogger: to put personal information about your health on the Web for all to see. It's also about what it means to read health bloggers -- should you take your health information from an unknown entity on the Web?  Read more

Infertility, IVF and other Unmentionables

7/26/11 12:17pm by ReneeJRoss
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In 2006, just barely a month and a half into my marriage I became pregnant. Having never been pregnant before and having sex on a whim when I was fertile, I doubted one time would be the charm. But it was. Sadly, I didn’t recognize the signs until I had spotting that never turned into a full period and it began to worry me. Having only been in the new city for a month and half, I did not have an ob/gyn so I called my doctor in NY. He told me to take a pregnancy test and lo and behold I was pregnant.  Read more >

The Last Blue Pill

4/13/11 11:07am by Mrs. Maybe
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Well, here it is, folks. The last birth control pill I will take in a very, very long time. Maybe ever. Looks pretty innocent, doesn't it? One little tiny pill that has been (theoretically) preventing me from getting pregnant for years and years. Last Sunday was the first night in almost eight years that I didn't take a pill.  Read more >