Women all over the world live without a uterus. Some women are born without them while other had them removed for medical reasons. Unfortunately, no matter what the reason for being without one, these women are unable to carry a child of their own. But all of that may soon change with medical science.
Ever wondered why so many babies are born during autumn months? It might have something to do with the seasons after all.
Researchers studied more than 6000 samples of men treated for infertility and found that most of the sperms that were made during winter months were fast moving and healthier.
It is the love of three sisters that created baby Beatrix. When Katy Slade and husband David wanted to start a family, Katy’s two sisters stepped up and made their dream come true!
All over the world, the rates of infertility among men are rising. But infertility isn’t the only reason couples struggle to conceive. While the World Health Organization says, any sperm count over 15 million per milliliter of semen is normal, authors on a study that analyzed the sperm count of Frenchmen between 1989 and 2005 say that a lower sperm count can delay conception among fertile couples.
For couples hoping for a baby, In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is currently one of the popular methods of conceiving. But this method may not always result in successful pregnancies. Now researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a two part approach of embryo analysis that identifies the best developing embryo that might lead to a pregnancy.
Doctors in Melbourne have, for the first time, conducted an Ovarian Tissue transplant technique to successfully re-store fertility of a 43-year-old woman after she had her breast cancer treatment in 2005.
According to researchers from Queen’s University Belfast, approximately one million couples undergo fertility treatments each year. Researchers also say that about a third of those couples have unexplained or idiopathic infertility, meaning that doctors have been unable to determine a cause for their fertility problems.
When thinking about what you inherited from your mother, you probably think of her eyes, her nose, maybe even her penchant for not being wasteful. But her ovaries? While not exactly a science, one set of Danish fertility experts have found this to be partially true; they say a woman can somewhat determine how long her fertility will last by looking at her mother’s age at menopause.
For one reason or another, more and more couples are waiting to start having children. In most cases, couples are making the decision they feel best suits their unique situation; nothing wrong with that…except that it may end up costing them more to start a family than they had originally anticipated.
Over the last 50 years, semen quality has decreased. A number of factors are thought to be responsible for this: tobacco use, alcohol use, diet, exercise and environmental toxins, just to name a few. Fixing the issue is a bit more complex than just exercising, but for those that are planning to have children, it might be nice to know that moderate exercise can increase the quality of a man’s semen.
For years, doctors have advised that obese women lose weight to increase their chances of getting pregnant. This recommendation has been based on previous studies that have linked obesity to decreased fertility.
Fertility during adulthood is probably one of the last things a parent may think about while helping their child fight cancer. Parents may be informed, however, that fertility is likely to be lost, even in the youngest of cancer patients because of the treatments needed to kill the cancer cells.
For some men, a single, defective protein could be the cause of infertility. That’s what researchers from Cardiff University in the UK are saying in their most recent research paper being published in the medical journal Fertility and Sterility.
