The world’s first in vitro fertilization (IVF) baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born in 1978 in the U.K. Since then, approximately 8 million babies have been born world-wide as a result of IVF. In the United States alone, approximately 1.5-2 percent of all babies born these days are conceived via IVF.
In the past 40 years, since the conception and …
Here is the scanario. You get pregnant quickly the first time and have a healthy baby. Then you have many miscarriages before another successful pregnancy. That’s the scenario in an op-ed article in the New York Times, “We Were Ready to Give Up on a Second Baby Until a ‘Miracle’ Arrived“. In this article the couple just keeps …
Since physicians have been performing preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) biopsing several cells from a blastocyst and using more advanced genetic tests, Reproductive Endocrinologists been at a loss for how to deal with embryos with cells with more than one chromosomal arrangement, one normal and others with a variety of abnormal configurations. Mosaic embryos weren’t easily detectable until about …
For some time now our experience has shown us that when we do all-freeze cycles and only tranfer embyos in frozen embryo cycles we get better results. This phenomenon occurs whether PGS is performed to help us select chromosomally normal embryos or in non-PGS cycles when we select embryos by morphology.
However in contrast to our experience, results from two …
It was traditional to tell patients to wait three months after a miscarriage before trying to conceive. There was no scientific evidence that the wait was beneficial and for a long time I have been telling patients that they can try to conceive after their first period following the miscarriage. After the emotional disappointment from a miscarriage it’s very difficult …
An article recently published in The Cut column of New York Magazine has captured the attention of the fertility and genetic testing community. Titled “A New Last Chance”, the article questioned the utility of preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) – a technique which data from the CDC and SART, along with the results of several randomized controlled trials (RCTs), have all …
I don’t know if you noticed but we have recently completely redesigned the Reproductive Partners website. In conjunction with the redesign we developed and refined an optimized testing and treatment protocol which increases your chances of safely delivering a healthy single baby. a new program called, “Single Transfer, Healthier Baby, Safer Pregnancy. We must be on to something because …
There is an emerging ethical morass in the field of reproductive medicine: what to do when patients seeking to get pregnant select embryos with DNA that could lead to a disease or disability. Should clinicians’ desire to help their patients have children override concerns about possibly doing harm to those children? And what about cases in which patients end up …
According to an article in the Washington Post, the multibillion-dollar fertility industry is booming, and experimenting with business models that are changing the American family in new and unpredictable ways. Would-be parents seeking donor eggs and sperm can pick and choose from long checklists of physical and intellectual characteristics. Clinics now offer volume discounts, package deals and 100 percent guarantees …
Maybe this is why we are seeing more cases of male infertility and many cases of IVF are requiring ICSI.
Researchers at Stanford University reviewed data on 168,867,480 live births from 1972 to 2015, making statistical adjustments for missing paternal records. The average age of the father of a newborn in the United States, the investigators found, has risen to …
