Fertility Treatment Does Not Lead to More Breakups

It’s the stuff that Lifetime movies are made of; a couple has difficulty conceiving, they blame each other and then break up. But does that happen in real life? Sure it does but a new study claims that it’s not all that common at least in Denmark.

There’s good news for couples who are struggling to conceive.

Those who are …

Depression can prevent fertility treatment

If I were to guess the most common reason that couples do not proceed with or continue in treatment I would guess that it’s the cost. And I would be wrong. Emotional issues are actually the main reason for failing to start or continue treatment. Those issues may be related to fear of failure, repeated failure, stress and anxiety, psychological …

IVF Not A Risk for Kids’ Developmental Delay

Good news: Developmental delays in young children were not linked to infertility treatments that their mothers had undergone versus children born to women who did not undergo those treatments, according to a population-based study as reported on MedPage Today..

After adjusting for confounders, infertility treatments were not associated with a statistically significant increased risk of a child failing in …

The emotional consequences of failed fertility treatment

The mental health impact of failed fertility treatment has been explored in a recent study published in the journal Human Reproduction and reported on psychcentral.com. Dr. Sofia Gameiro of Cardiff University, UK, and her team explored the factors that may affect women’s mental health more than a decade after unsuccessful fertility treatment.

They gave questionnaires to 7,148 women who had …