I had to be a little bit sneaky today. In the past week, three couples returned for a second baby. These three had similar stories in that all of them conceived with IVF within the past few years and were now back for another baby using their frozen embryos. Two of these couples came back [...]
A word to future reproductive endocrinologists
February 17, 2009 By 5 Comments
As a welcome relief from all the sadder posts about the octuplets, I’m reminded that there are many optimistic diligent students who might someday be the RE’s of the future. Here are some of their questions: How do you become an RE? What classes do you suggest I take in highschool? in college? I’m a [...]
Boy fathers baby at age thirteen
February 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
To the best of my knowledge, this pregnancy did not involve IVF. There seems to be a lot of news lately involving pregnancies in which the identity of the father is unclear. If any of you are worried how a 13-year old and a 15-year old are going to support a child, rest assured that [...]
ASRM response to octuplets
February 14, 2009 By 4 Comments
For those wondering what actions our regulatory board is taking, here’s a letter from the esteemed Executive Director of our society that I received yesterday by email: I am sure all of us have followed with interest and concern the unfolding story of the Suleman octuplets in California. I wanted to take a moment to [...]
More questions raised regarding octuplets
February 13, 2009 By 15 Comments
I was watching this clip of Nadya Suleman’s interview and noticed a few interesting things. For one thing, I’m not a psychiatrist, but I have a strong suspicion of her having some Axis II psychopathology. What I AM more qualified to comment on are some medical inconsistencies in her statements. In part of this clip, [...]
Last night’s journal club
February 11, 2009 By 14 Comments
I met with nine other RE’s and embryologists last night in Pasadena for our almost bi-monthly journal club. I was reminded then by one of the attendees that these journal club meetings originated from my own idea over a year ago. I don’t really care if I get credit for these meetings but I must [...]
Octuplets doctor may have been lulled by past poor success
February 9, 2009 By 7 Comments
The story of Nadya Suleman’s interview on the Today show gives the name of a fertility clinic and a doctor in Beverly Hills. It doesn’t blatantly declare that he is the one who did her treatment, but if he is, we can look at the CDC data for some further insight. The most recent CDC [...]
Who is the father of the octuplets?
February 4, 2009 By 1 Comment
I came upon this blog post because it had linked to me. There was some good detective work done here, with some interesting observations revealed. I sort of felt like I did when I was reading the DaVinci Files.
Eight out of eight unlikely
February 3, 2009 By 2 Comments
I may turn out to wrong, but I still think it’s possible that the reports about the octuplets being from transfer of eight embryos will turn out to be inaccurate. Rather than this being a case of eight hits out of eight chances, it’s more plausible that this is a case of eight hits out [...]
Not everybody wants children
February 2, 2009 By 20 Comments
I recently had an interesting journey into another world, all without leaving the comfort of my computer. One of the fun things about having your own website is to check out where the referring traffic is coming from. So whenever I notice a large number of hits coming from any new site, I will often [...]
