Rest and Heal After a failed IVF cycle, a woman should rest and resist the temptation to worry over all of the ways she could have prevented it. Maintain a healthy emotional state, and consider that natural pregnancies are as rare as IVF pregnancies. Infertile women and couples may also want to avoid getting into situations where they’ll have to…
You Are Not Alone When couples are considering using donor eggs, it is typically not their first option or the choice they had hoped for. Many couples have charged through infertility with determination only to be stopped dead in their tracks with an option they did not expect. They suddenly feel fear, indecision, confusion, and at times, isolation. When you…
Endometriosis (en-doe-me-tree-O-sis) is an often-painful disorder in which tissue that normally lines the inside of your uterus, the endometrium grows outside your uterus. Endometriosis most commonly involves your ovaries, fallopian tube and the tissue lining your pelvis. Rarely, endometria tissue may spread beyond pelvic organs. With endometriosis, displaced endometrial tissue continues to act as it normally would, it thickens, breaks…