Click here for Episode #1 RECAP: Patient “M” excitedly completed her first IUI cycle and became pregnant for the first time in her life. In order to follow the health of the pregnancy, we did routine hCG levels. In a healthy pregnancy, the hCG levels should rise briskly, often doubling every 2 days. In M’s [...]

Click here for Episode #1 What happens after a positive pregnancy test? There are still some first timers who mistakenly believe that all is safe now. The reality is far from that. Depending on ones age, ones history and ones physical characteristics the risk of a bad outcome (miscarriage, ectopic or abnormality) is usually something [...]

Click here for Episode #1 After starting ovarian stimulation for an IUI cycle, the first ultrasound is suspenseful. Sometimes, a patient makes no follicles. Sometimes she makes too many. An optimal number depends on the patient’s age and history. For older patients who have been infertile a long time, and who have failed multiple IUI [...]

Click here for Episode #1 To summarize, we’re facing a case of infertility – no baby despite one year without birth control. The sperm looks OK. There is evidence of an egg problem as noted by the elevated FSH. It’s generally good when the FSH is less than 10 or so and M’s level is [...]

Let’s see what we can learn from this typical case. A 32-year-old woman (let’s call her by first initial, M) decides to seek help because a year has gone by without her getting pregnant. This is one full year of regular intercourse twice a week with no contraception. Neither she, nor her husband had ever