During IVF
Going through fertility treatments can feel like a rollercoaster ride, with exciting highs, emotional lows, and information at every turn. We’ll help educate you on your options, share others’ experiences, and hopefully make you laugh along the way.
During IVF
Going through fertility treatments can feel like a rollercoaster ride, with exciting highs, emotional lows, and information at every turn. We’ll help educate you on your options, share others’ experiences, and hopefully make you laugh along the way.
Interpreting Your PGT-A Results
Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy (PGT-A) results The phone is ringing! After weeks of hormone injections, countless monitoring appointments, one uncomfortable egg retrieval, and days of updates from the embryology lab, you are finally ... Read More
What Genetic Testing May be Part of Your IVF Journey?
You have finally made the decision. You are going to pursue in vitro fertilization (IVF) to build your family. This may be the biggest decision you have made to date (believe me, I know. ... Read More
How PGT-A Can Help Reduce the Chance of Having a Miscarriage?
Miscarriage. For too many women, this word lays heavy, bringing a flood of emotion that is all encompassing: sorrow, shock, confusion, guilt. If you have not experienced a miscarriage, there is a good chance you ... Read More
How to Find a PGT-A Test That Fits Your Needs
In this day and age, it goes without saying that the field of genetics (especially within the fertility world) is constantly changing. In the early years of preimplantation genetic testing (PGT), patients could decide whether they wanted to screen just three specific chromosomes via FISH, or all 24 chromosomes via aCGH. Suffice it to say, times have changed, and while it is now commonplace for every PGT-A test to screen all 24 human chromosomes (1-22, X and Y), the similarities stop there.
How PGT-M Can Help You Avoid Passing Down a Genetic Disorder
While there is a lot of information about IVF readily available, information about PGT-M may not be as easily accessible to those looking to prevent passing on their specific genetic disorder. If you are considering pursuing PGT-M, read this blog to learn what you should know!
How Endometrial Receptivity Impacts Your Pregnancy Odds
Our genes regulate everything about us. From mundane traits like height and hair color, to more interesting characteristics like whether you prefer sweet or salty foods—gene expression, or the way in which our DNA ... Read More
I only have one embryo. Should I still consider PGS?
For some women going through IVF, the choice of having PGS performed on their embryos is a no-brainer. If they’ve got a few embryos, they might test them all to help pick the one with ... Read More
Why the Pineapple is the Symbol of the Infertility Community
When I was a teenager, I was told that if you let a boy near you, you’d get pregnant within five minutes. Ok, this is a slight exaggeration. Still, the impression was that if ... Read More
A Day in the Life of an Embryologist: Interview with Evelyn E. Neuber, Ph.D.
As a patient going through IVF, you likely interact with your doctor and the nursing staff a lot. There are consultations, blood tests, follow-ups, and ultrasounds that lead up to egg retrieval. Once the egg ... Read More
Have an Infertility Free Valentine’s Day!
Infertility is not romantic. IVF is not sexy. Well, if you yourself are attractive, I guess it could be, but needles, hormones, and hospital gowns (even with the best of bodies) aren’t ideal when one ... Read More
