Tag - fertility

29
Oct

Buying Fertility Insurance: Egg Freezing for Later Pregnancy

Hi everyone. I’ve been in Boston, Massachusetts, my own stopping grounds attending the annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. There was some really interesting information from researchers around the world and I want to share it with you now. First of all, let me introduce you to S. L. Tan. Dr. Tan, …

31
Jul

Fertility and Menopause

A woman plays many important roles throughout her lifetime, and reproduction often remains an important one as menopause approaches. Some women are scrambling to have a child, others are hoping not to. In either case, perimenopause is a time that fertility ebbs and wanes and as a result, estrogen levels fluctuate with it. Today, reproduction …

24
Apr

Infertility: The Child Who Might Have Been

National Infertility Awareness Week begins today. It’s been 30 years since I performed the first in-vitro fertilization in Massachusetts, one of the first in the country. I wrote this poem then as a tribute to infertility patients and the invisible loss they experience.   Infertility: The Child Who Might Have Been   The simple union of …