Obese Children and Infertility Monday, June 08, 2009 Recent studies are finding a link between child obesity and infertility later in life. As obesity runs rampant in the US among children, more research... more
Fertility Blues Saturday, June 06, 2009 As fertility rates and treatments seem to be increasing in clinics in the UK and Australia (with government backed and funded procedures), the US fert... more
Infertility Awareness Friday, June 05, 2009 An awards ceremony honoring fertility clinics that have helped raise awareness and treatment for infertility was held last night. The National Inferti... more
Fertility Reforms in Croatia Monday, June 01, 2009 It seems like fertility is making news all over the world. The Associated Foreign Press reported today that a long awaited fertility bill about In Vit... more
Nation’s Most Fertility Friendly Workplaces Rewarded Friday, May 29, 2009 *Conceive* magazine has honored 50 workplaces in the US that offer their employees some of the best fertility benefits, adoption and fertility treatme... more
Egg donation consists of one woman choosing to give her eggs to help another woman become pregnant. Women who want to be donors go must go through an intense screening process.
The egg donor procedure begins with hormone injections that help stimulate the ovaries to produce eggs. Once the eggs are ready for retrieval, a fine needle is inserted through the vaginal wall, into the follicles where the eggs are the removed.
Egg retrieval usually only takes 10-15 minutes and can be done under general anesthesia in the office.
