Archive for the ‘Treatment’ Category
June 23, 2010 | By: Liz | Filed under: Check This Out,Treatment,Uncategorized
Today’s topic is one that I have been meaning to address for some time, but my colleague Mike Berkley did so very well in the following article on sperm DNA fragmentation and miscarriage that I thought I would just post the link to his article. I can tell you that this stuff is really controversial, but also documented at higher rates of fragmentation to play a significant role in pregnancy loss.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Miscarriage-Caused-by-Sperm&id=4520103
Tags: miscarriage
January 30, 2010 | By: Liz | Filed under: Check This Out,Current Affairs,Egg Donation,Thinking Out Loud,Treatment
So I have only read part of this article. It brought tears to my eyes and as I am mid-struggle with my own quest to have another baby I was too moved to continue reading it. But I immediately recognized that this is an article to share and discuss. What I want to discuss is how the news was imparted to the author . . . and what I felt was wrong with it. Why don’t doctors, even OB/GYN’s and RE’s know how to tell someone they are infertile and why didn’t THIS woman’s doctors know she has many options for having a baby . . . why did she get immediately (and incorrectly) told:
“I’m sorry you can’t have a baby.”
WTF? Read on:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/fashion/31love.html
Tags: New York Times, premature ovarian failure, Turner's Syndrome
March 20, 2006 | By: Liz | Filed under: Treatment
And I am back in the beginning. Evaluating the infertility terrain, thinking through my options. I know so much more now than I did way back when . . . before the books, before my law practice . . . but surprisingly the feelings haven’t changed. Maybe there is a little less desperation but not much. That same fear about the “what ifs?” and the “what if it doesn’t work” . . . they still haunt me.
I think a lot of this has been brought on my plans to do the first revised edition of The Infertility Survival Handbook and the thought that going back into treatment for my third and last baby would be an amazing tie-in for the new edition . . . but is that a reason to open up wounds that I had maybe finally started to let scab over? And why am I so hell-bent on treatment for a third baby. Why not adopt again?
And what about the big question . . . why haven’t I made that appointment with Dr. Chung if I am so serious about possibly pursuing having a third child through assisted reproductive technology. I don’t get why I am hesitating so much.
