Category: Hanabusa IVF
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More Women are Becoming Mothers
Last week, front page news in the New York Times focused on the U.S. fertility rate. While the U.S. fertility rate is down, the article reported, more women are mothers. Several factors contribute to this remarkable if somewhat alarming news and from our perspective some of this news is positive. While younger women of childbearing…
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A New Year, A New Approach and Some New Year’s Resolutions to benefit your fertility
It’s a new year, and that means a new start—a time to reflect, refresh and renew. If you are entering 2018 with hopes of having a child, this is an excellent time to make some resolutions regarding your reproductive health. Whether it’s your first attempt at trying to conceive with the help of reproductive medicine…
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Coping with Infertility During the Holiday Season
While the holiday season is a time for family and togetherness, it is also a time filled with all things relating to children—holiday cards and social media posts featuring families and new babies, TV commercials and other advertisements depicting children and babies and the magic and spirit of the season. The desire for a child…
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“It Only Takes One Good Egg” (and Sperm)
Sometimes it seems simple enough. One sperm fertilizes one egg and nine months later a baby is born. Yet, as we know, so many more factors contribute to the birth of this baby and as much as fertility and reproductive science have discovered and achieved, there is still an element of uncertainty, hope and chance…
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The Importance of Male Reproductive Health
It takes two to make a baby. Woman and man. Egg and sperm. Yet most of the responsibility for conceiving seems to fall on women’s shoulders, largely because research into fertility has focused predominantly on the female reproductive system, causing women to rightly, and with good cause, learn about egg quantity and quality, the effect…
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Genetic Editing and the Human Embryo
The field of genetic engineering made a big announcement last week. Scientists at the Oregon Health and Science University were able to successfully edit genes of a human embryo. This a major scientific advancement and a way to potentially ward off disease, particularly chronic genetic diseases like early-on set Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, Tay-Sachs, sickle cell anemia…
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A DOR/POI Patient is Pregnant: A Success Story Involving the Retrieval of Only Two Eggs
A 36-year old patient from out of state contacted us in order to consult on her particular infertility case. She’d had a long history of irregular periods, and her AMH was 0.022 indicating she was both DOR (Diminished Ovarian Reserve) and POI (Primary Ovarian Insufficiency). She’d worked with her local specialist and attempted IUI, but…
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Infertility Support Group: A Mind-Body Approach for the San Diego Community
Infertility Support Group: A Mind-Body Approach for the San Diego CommunityTuesdays, starting June 13th Beginning Tuesday evenings, starting June 13th the new Infertility Support Group, led by social worker Rachel Rabinor (LCSW) and naturopathic Dr. Elizabeth Winter (ND), will begin its next six-week session. Started as a way to fill a void in the San…
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Infertility Awareness Week and the San Diego Walk for Hope
Last month during Infertility Awareness Week, several leading newspapers ran headlines noting that one in eight couples struggled with infertility. That’s 15 percent of the couples in the U.S. While this may not be news to couples who have already faced or are facing infertility, raising awareness and educating the wider public is a positive…