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At 31, Kim felt the ticking of her biological clock — no doubt pressured by her sister Kourtney’s two children and Khloe’s solid marriage — but refused to be a slave to it. Instead she was proactive and took her fertility into her own hands.Ā Fast forward just four months and Kim is seriously in love and pregnant. Rest assured though ladies, this doesn’t only happen in the land of celebrities. More
Sofia Vergara just hit the big 4-0 and she has plans to wedĀ Nick Loeb. But in a true testament to our modern times, Sofia, who has 20-year-old sonĀ Manolo, is thinking about expanding her family with her new fiancĆ©. And for her, this means shopping around for that uber celebrity trendy surrogate. More
Mother-daughter uterus transplants may have already come and gone thanks to theĀ pioneeringĀ efforts of modern medicine. But the first lady to ever receive a “donor womb,” not only successfully received one, but she was able to use it to get knocked up! Go science!
Fertility treatments are pricey. So pricey that they’re out of reach for many, many infertile couples who seek to biologically expand their family. But in the now time-honored fertility “happy endings” that often times include twins, one family got doubleĀ – or rather triple — the happily ever after with triplets. After winning said IVF treatments in a raffle, mind you.
In case you were under a rock the entire weekend, you know that 46-year-old Halle Berry is pregnant with her second child. But before everyone starts to roll their eyes over older IVF celebrity moms setting unrealistic fertilityĀ precedentsĀ Halle claims that she wasn’t even vying for baby #2. Sometimes when you have a sexy French fiancĆ©, I guess these things just happen. More
I didnāt know enough at 20 to question this doctor – a man who presented himself as the be-all-and-end-all of my chance at motherhood ā or why he didnāt schedule me in to have my now defective ovary removed. I was too traumatized to ask for a second opinion.
I did know that Iād always wanted to be a mother and that his reaction to me dissolving into hysterical tears ā āGo outside and wait for a nurseā- was entirely inappropriate. The male nurse I spoke to should not have let me leave the hospital in tears, alone and without anyone at home to meet me. But in my rush to get out of there I didn’t advocate for myself. More
In a bold step for assisted reproductive technology, researchers are working on a new egg freezing technique to allow a woman to freeze-dry her eggs at their peak and preserve them for years. In her own kitchen cabinet. Because even if the workplace isn’t progressing, science is. More
A couple years before I conceived my first child, I suffered through an ectopic pregnancy. It was one of those things I knew nothing about, apart from the horror stories I had heard about how you could die if it wasn’t treated quickly enough. I remember being really relieved when they were able to treat me non-surgically. Something about removing a fallopian tube made it seem like it would be even harder to get pregnant. I was already having a hard enough time. More
Couples looking to conceive may want to start to take advantage of those winter days when it’s too cold to leave the house. While the cold may cause shrinkage, it seems that sperm perform best in the winter months, according to a new study. More
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Valentine’s Day sure brought a massive family addition to parentsĀ Tressa and Manuel Montalvo Jr. The couple who were only hoping for a little sister or brother for their 2-year-old Memphis ended up with two sets of twins. But don’t be so quick to file this one under “IVF Happy Ending.”
From experiencing tremendous pregnancy loss to the frustration of not getting pregnant to feeling like a “jealous judgy monster,” infertility can be a very isolating experiencing for many women. But new research on the commonality of such an emotional experience suggests that many of you ladies (and men) are not alone. More
For me, dealing with infertility put me in a state of constant jealously. I was jealous of the pregnant woman walking down the street. I envied the woman with a gaggle of kids, thinking, ShitĀ - she gets four? Four? And I can’t even have ONE? More
Women’s perceptions of their own fertility continues to be an area of perpetual mixed messages in our modern times. While I can’t stand it every time The New York Times and other outlets frames older women as clueless yoga bunnies, much of this research does seem to highlight a pretty profound disconnect. More
I guess we’re all headed to the fertility clinic in a generation or two. More
