by blastoff | Oct 6, 2014 | Blog
Roughly 12% of women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime. While more and more treatment options are becoming available, some of the most common treatments today for breast cancer can result in fertility problems. The news...
by blastoff | Oct 3, 2014 | Blog
Couples who have undergone in vitro fertilization treatments (IVF) know that sometimes one embryo isn’t enough. Often, doctors will transfer multiple embryos to increase the chance of successful implantation. Any remaining embryos are frozen. If couples have completed...
by blastoff | Sep 29, 2014 | Blog
When in vitro fertilization was in its infancy, doctors increased a couple’s chances of successful pregnancy by transferring multiple embryos at once. While this increased the chance of a woman becoming pregnant, but it also increased her chance of becoming pregnant...
by blastoff | Sep 26, 2014 | Blog
When a couple discovers they will be unable to give birth to a child 100% genetically related to them how do they begin to deal with that loss? There will be no, “she has your eyes”, “he has grandpa’s nose” along with a myriad of other emotions attached to loss and...
by blastoff | Sep 22, 2014 | Blog
When in vitro fertilization (IVF) was first used in 1978, it seemed like a miracle procedure to the millions of couples worldwide who struggled with fertility problems. Since then, more than 5 million babies have been born thanks to the procedure. New scientific...
by blastoff | Sep 19, 2014 | Blog
One of the most important medical steps in the embryo adoption process is the Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET). This step happens when the adopted embryos are placed into the adoptive mother’s uterus. Understandably, couples often have a lot of questions about what the...
