Are you and your partner looking to become parents? Navigating the world of gay fatherhood, egg donation, and adoption or surrogacy for gay men and couples can be complicated. Here is an…
Pros and Cons of Having a Baby at 45
There are many reasons women delay having children. For some, career plans, such as those involving many years of schooling, or require extensive travel or long hours at the office, just got…
How To Improve The Health Of Your Sperm In As Little As 75 Days
The health of a man’s sperm too often gets put in second place when it comes to establishing fertility, as much of the focus has almost always been on the health of…
Using Essential Oils When Trying To Conceive and for IVF
Since before the time of Cleopatra, people have been using plant resins and flower oils for adornment, to balance emotions, and to enhance health. Using essential oils for IVF or to support…
Common medications, supplements, and gay male fertility
People take daily medications and supplements for a wide variety of reasons: to treat chronic medical conditions, to boost overall health, or to improve their cosmetic appearance. Others take supplements to relax,…
Should You Genetically Test Your Egg?
As a woman ages, her eggs are more prone to genetic chromosomal abnormalities. These abnormalities may sometimes lead to increased age-related infertility, miscarriages and birth defects. The most common cause is age….
The Future of Fertility Treatment: The Nuclear Transfer
With infertility disorders increasing within the United States, and around the world, more and more people people are opting to utilize Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) such as In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) in…
Dealing with Fertility Depression
Many women in their twenties, thirties, forties and even fifties look forward to trying for a child, and think nothing will hold them back from their dreams of being a mother. However,…
Winter Fertility Tips
It’s been pretty cold out (well, for Los Angeles, California), and that means there is a lot of staying in, cuddling up on the couch while it rains out, and hopefully relaxation….
What Is ICSI And Can It Help You?
If you are possibly heading towards doing ART (assisted reproductive technologies) you may be preparing for something called ICSI. ICSI is “Intracytoplasmic sperm injection” and it’s one of the may ways of…
Why Isn’t It Happening? And What To Do?
You decide you want a baby. Great! You’ve been trying to conceive for a while now, but no baby yet. But you’re healthy. You’ve heard it takes time, so you wait a…
Time Moves Fast: Creating Healthy Habits & Fertility
It’s almost February (yes, we know). Have you been sticking to your New Year’s resolution? Or have you decided to not just quit something terrible for you, as if it were lent,…
E-Cigarettes & Male Infertility
We all know smoking is bad for you health, but can smoking damage eggs and sperm, making it harder to get pregnant and have a healthy child? Indeed, yes. While “regular” cigarettes…
Non-Nutritive Sweeteners, Fertility & Pregnancy
Can you safely consume NNS (non-nutritive sweeteners) while TTC (trying to conceive) or during pregnancy? If you are attempting to get pregnant of course the first thing you should do is go…
Gender Selection & Genetic Screening
Can you pick the gender of your baby if you are using infertility treatments? Actually, you can. Some fertility patients may be interested in family balancing and gender selection. Gender selection is…
Are Two Better than One?
Are two better than one? When it comes to increasing your chances of success and having a healthy baby through IVF (in vitro fertilization), more might not necessarily be better. In fact,…
Fertile New Year’s Resolutions
So ya. We’re reeling towards a new year, with this Saturday being New Years Eve and this Sunday being the first of a hopefully wonderful year, the ever-awaited 2017. And hopefully, despite…
How to Reduce Stress & Increase Your Fertility
We’ve all experienced stress at one point or another in our lives. But just what is stress, exactly? Stress is an event or experience that a person feels or perceives is threatening,…
Physical Labor and Its Effect on Conception and The Health of the Child
Are you trying to conceive or already pregnant? Although scientists are coming out with papers left and right that say sitting is the new smoking, standing for long periods of time is…
Healthy Egg Testing? Technological Advances in Identifying Healthy Eggs
How do you know if you have healthy eggs? Can you still use your eggs or is there a better, healthier option for conceiving a healthy embryo and healthy child? The article…
“Manopause” & Infertility
As men and women age, our hormones change and diminish, leaving us weaker, fatter and less sharp. We’ve all heard of menopause and “the shift” women go through, sometimes as early as…
Ubiquinol for Improved Egg Quality
If you have been trying to conceive for more than six months and you are over the age of 35, you may have a challenge with your egg quality. While some women…
Fertility Surgeries for Improved Conception
Some women are actually quite fertile, but there are road blocks keeping them from getting pregnant. Have you had thorough testing to know if you have any of these road blocks? There…
Fertile Mindset – Getting Fertile Mind, Body & Spirit
Video transcript → I am a licensed marriage and family therapist, and my specialty is in infertility counseling. I work with lots of individuals, couples, who are experiencing infertility and struggling with…
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