Female Infertility

Do You Know How Drinking and Smoking Affects Female Fertility?

Sharon over at Surrogacy 101 pointed me to some recent research about pregnancy rates after ending IVF, or in vitro fertilization.

Dr Ame Lintsen, from Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and her research team, interviewed all women

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Study Links Obesity to PCOS Infertility in Women

by Abbie Waters in Female Infertility

In Western nations where obesity is increasing, there is going to be an infertility crisis. A new study published in the medical journal The Lancet suggests that obesity is closely linked to PCOS, or polycystic ovarian syndrome. Right now, PCOS…

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Microsoft Thinks Infertility Is a “Girl Thing”

by Abbie Waters in Female Infertility, Infertility News

If you asked me for evidence that American culture associates infertility with femininity, I’d point you to the Microsoft AdCenter Demographics Prediction Tool, an online tool that tries to predict the personal qualities of particular words you type into it.…

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Infertility: The Symptoms We Don’t Talk About

by Abbie Waters in Female Infertility, Male Infertility

Pamela Jeanne over at Coming2Terms wrote a post about Infertility’s Collateral Damage, the un-talked about ways that infertility sucks for infertile people. She realized that, as an infertile woman “I find myself exhausted quite often as a result of the…

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