February 4, 2012

An emotional day

The morning started out terribly. One of our favorite patients had a miscarriage confirmed. There had been a heartbeat seen on their last ultrasound, but there was none today. As the patient herself admitted, it didn’t come as that much of a surprise, because she had been bleeding, her hCG levels had not been rising [...]

Case of the month May '08: Episode #2

Click here for episode #1 ANTHONY and CORA are a young couple who have not been able to conceive yet. They have already had the basic workup done. The current thinking is that the problem lies not with the sperm or eggs themselves, but with their ability of the sperm and eggs to physically come [...]

Don't try this at home

At times when I’m getting ready to do an embryo transfer, waiting for the embryologist to load the catheter, husbands often joke "I sure hope he doesn’t drop the embryos". While we have never had any dropped embryos, it would appear that there are dropped babies out there.

Case of the month May '08: Episode #1

ANTHONY and CORA (not their real names) came for their consultation wearing matching colors and holding hands. He was 27. She was 25. They were smiling much more enthusiastically than the average couple do on the first consultation visit, with no hint of the usual nervousness. Two things I noticed right away. They sat on [...]