This story is not a fertility story, but it is of interest with respect to issues of a child’s best interests conflicting with biological parenthood.

The Chicagoland area reports increased interest from women wanting to be egg donors and surrogates, many of whom cite bettering their financial condition during this economic downturn as part of their incentive for wanting to do it. In contrast, in the UK, where they have banned monetary compensation for sperm and egg donors, there is [...]

We already work with a very good Christian embryo-adoption agency locally, but it’s encouraging to hear that others are being established.

Despite Nicole Kidman’s assertion that swimming in the waterfalls near Kununurra, Australia helped her fertility, I would not recommend making the trip all the way out there. Now if you happened to already live nearby, then it might be worth a try.

A 61-year old Japanese woman gave birth with the help of her daughter’s donated eggs. She carried the pregnancy for her daughter, who has no uterus. Because of the patients I get from Japan who come all the way over here to California to do donor egg cycles, I was under the assumption that donor [...]

It’s probably no coincidence that the UK’s policy removing anonymity from the sperm donation process has resulted in a shortage of donated sperm. It’s also probably no coincidence that we RE’s in the US are seeing more and more patients who come to us from Europe for their treatment. In the US, anonymity is safe [...]

"Make sure that’s the right sperm!" is a comment we often hear when doing an IUI. While there is a tone of joking when it’s said, the anxiety behind that statement it is very real. The odds of a mix-up ever happening are extremely extremely extremely low. I used to think it was about the [...]

There are good pregnancies and bad pregnancies. We all know what the most common form of bad pregnancy is — miscarriage. However, there are pregnancies that are even worse than that — ectopic pregnancies. Ectopics are doubly sad because just as with miscarriages, you don’t end up with a baby. However, in addition to that, [...]

I bet if you ask most people if they believe everything the media tells them, they will answer NO. However, what they may not realize is that they still do believe a lot of stuff that is misleading or outright false. I confess I used to be pretty naive. There was a time in my [...]

According to this article, the five mistakes women make are: 1. Women don’t question doctors I think a lot of this is determined by the doctor. Some doctors get angry when they are questioned. I take the opposite approach. My staff and I welcome questions, actively solicit patients for any questions and do not take [...]