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Will this embryo become a baby ?
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Dr. Aniruddha M.
Embryo transfer is often the high point of an IVF cycle. It represents the outcome of all the hard work the clinic does - and many doctors are quite proud of the embryos they create for you. Good clinics will routinely give you a photo of your embryos for your records, as this documents that you have received high quality care. Seeing your embryo ...
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Here are some great fertility bl ...
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Liz Richards
Here are some great fertility blogs that I have discovered:1. Fertility Community Blog: Fertility Community is a great website that has received positive feedback from some of my patients. You can sign up at different forums based on where you are in your fertility journey. One of my patients said she made “life-long friends” there. ...
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Trading Places
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Callie
Day 2 of the 2WW…so far so good. The fact that I’ve taken this whole week off of work has really helped keep my stress levels down, and I feel like I’m in a better place than I was at this point last time. If all is going according to plan, my 3 little guys (which LG suggested we name B-17, B-24, and B-52…a suggestion wh ...
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Moving Closer
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Callie
We’ve made it to the next milestone! Retrieval is set for Friday morning. I am more than ready as I’ve run out of real estate on my stomach for any more shots. Apparently practice does not make perfect as my growing stomach pooch looks like some sort of avant garde finger painting consisting of blue, purple, and yellow dots…an ...
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What a difference a year can make ...
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Little Wonders
A year ago tomorrow, I found out I was pregnant. Having struggled with infertility for a long time and having been told that without IVF-ICSI, we will never have a biological child, I wondered for many months if I would EVER find out I was pregnant. And then, one morning, just like that, our whole life changed. The 4th was a Sunday, and the night b ...
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IVF Nightmares
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John David Gordon MD

One of the benefits of working as a Reproductive Endocrinologist is that most patients end up with the outcome that they desired: a family. It may be accomplished with their own eggs and sperm, or donor eggs/sperm, or donor embryo or adoption or foster parenting or even on their own (GASP!). However, when a disaster occurs you can be sure that it w ...
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IVF Nightmares
by
John David Gordon MD

One of the benefits of working as a Reproductive Endocrinologist is that most patients end up with the outcome that they desired: a family. It may be accomplished with their own eggs and sperm, or donor eggs/sperm, or donor embryo or adoption or foster parenting or even on their own (GASP!). However, when a disaster occurs you can be sure that it w ...
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How many embryos should I transfer ?
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Dr. Aniruddha M.
This is one of the most difficult decisions which IVF patients and their doctors need to make. There are many variables which affect this, so let's look at them one by one. If IVF had a success rate of 100%, everyone would be happy to transfer one embryo . Life would always have a happy ending and IVF doctors would no longer need to talk to their ...
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