What Do You Know About Your Fertility? – Part 1, Biological Clock
Posted by David Kreiner, MD in Age Related Infertility, Infertility Information on 04. Jan, 2010 | 0 Comments
What Do You Know About Your Biological Clock?
Women have a biological clock. Everyone knows that. The problem is that a lot of the information people think they know about their fertility and reproduction is not true. The blurring of fact, opinion, myth and misunderstanding makes for a treacherous misinformation landscape. The knowledge gap [...]
Is My Biological Clock Running Out?
Posted by David Kreiner, MD in Age Related Infertility, FSH, Fertility Screening, IVF, Micro IVF on 19. Aug, 2009 | 0 Comments
Tears start to course down the cheeks of my patient, her immediate response to the message I just conveyed to her. Minutes before, with great angst anticipating the depressing effect my words will have on her, I proceeded to explain how her FSH was slightly elevated and her antral follicle count was a disappointing [...]
Im Having a Baby!
Posted by Dr. Kreiner in Age Related Infertility, Infertility Information on 19. Jul, 2009 | 0 Comments
When Are You Too Old To Be a Mother?
Posted by David Kreiner, MD in Age Related Infertility, Egg Donation, Infertility Information, News, Ovum Donation on 16. Jul, 2009 | 1 Comment
When I saw that Maria de Carmen Bousada (the oldest mother to conceive at the time with donated eggs and the help of an IVF program) had died, my first thought was to extend my sincere condolences to her family and in particular to her two year twin boys. My heart truly went out to [...]
What Are My Odds?
Posted by David Kreiner, MD in Age Related Infertility, Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Co-culture of Embryos, Embryo Glue, Infertility Information on 18. Mar, 2009 | 9 Comments
One of the first questions that most people ask is “what is the chance for success?” In 2002 about 28% of cycles in the United States in which women underwent IVF and embryo transfer with their own eggs resulted in the live birth of at least one infant. This rate has been improving slowly but [...]
