Avoiding IVF Disasters: Are Your Embryos in Safe Hands?
Posted by Dr. David Kreiner in Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Embryo Transfer, IVF, Infertility Information, Laboratory, Treating Infertility on 22. Mar, 2011 | 0 Comments
Practicing medicine for the past 30 years, I have developed an enormous respect for those things that happen to people that are beyond our control. Sometimes, the issue of preventability is a gray one and defies definitive blame assignment. Yet, when the dust settles there remain victims who are harmed for whom we are all [...]
Embryo Rejection
Posted by Dr. David Kreiner in Embryo Transfer, Infertility Information on 10. Jan, 2011 | 1 Comment
Dear Fertility Doc:
Two months ago I had my first IVF cycle & it did not work. I was wondering what common reasons there are a body would reject the 2 embryos that seemed to look good on the 3rd day?
A few years ago I had a healthy child that came naturally with out even trying. [...]
The Middle Years of Reproductive Endocrinology
Posted by Dr. Kreiner in Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Reproductive Health, Treating Infertility on 18. Aug, 2010 | 8 Comments
I entered the field of IVF in 1985 when the pregnancy rate at the Jones Institute, the most successful program in the country, was 15 percent.
IVF’s Early Years
Practicing reproductive medicine during the ’80s was like having a new love or beginning a new romance — all of it seemed liked a miracle, and everything [...]
Creating One Baby At A Time
Posted by David Kreiner, MD in Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Dr. Howard and Georgeanna Jones, Embryo Transfer, IVF, Reproductive Health, The Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine, Treating Infertility on 26. May, 2010 | 2 Comments
It was fifteen years ago that I sat listening to a lecture about the hazards of multiple pregnancy and how IVF had increased multiples so drastically in the preceding ten years. What a depressing thought. I loved helping women conceive. I was living my dream, practicing the infertility and IVF I had [...]
Having a Baby with Donor Egg or Donor Sperm
Posted by David Kreiner, MD in Egg Donation, Sperm Donation on 25. Feb, 2010 | 2 Comments
As a reproductive endocrinologist (and, therefore, a supposed expert on heredity), I’m often asked how much of a child’s development and ultimate personality is a result of genetics (nature) and how much is a result of its environment (nurture). Typically, this question arises when dealing with patients contemplating using donor sperm or donor egg.
I don’t [...]
