by Casey Goldstein | Aug 30, 2019 | Diet, Infertility, Lifestyle
Are those pop-up ads that read “Doctors hate this one weird trick…” still a thing? You know, the ones where you have to click through dozens of pages and watch an interminably long video to find out what that weird trick is. The “weird” part of the trick is always the...
by Megan Kavanaugh | Aug 1, 2019 | Fertility
In vitro fertilization or IVF is one of the most popular techniques in the field of artificial reproduction. With IVF, human embryos are fertilized or generated and allowed to grow up to 5-7 days in vitro, or in a petri dish. IVF was one of the biggest medical...
by Megan Kavanaugh | Aug 1, 2019 | Advocacy, Lifestyle
Photo credit: Jane Goodall Institute In one of my earliest memories, I’m sitting on the back porch of our little house in San Jose, California, conducting science experiments. These ‘experiments’ involved an array of Tupperware cups containing various amounts of muddy...
by Megan Kavanaugh | Aug 1, 2019 | Advocacy, Infertility, Lifestyle
Dr. Santiago Munne, co-founder of MedAnswers and renowned reproductive geneticist, addresses the misperceptions in the recent New York Magazine, which created a lot of anxiety in patients and their doctors by hyping a minority view and confusing the majority. In...
by Megan Kavanaugh | Aug 1, 2019 | Fertility, Infertility, Miscarriage, parenthood
I remember the feeling… wanting to start trying but not knowing how long it would take, what it would mean for me, our relationship, and our future. We had been married just over a year and we figured; why not see what happens? We aren’t getting any younger and what...
