Yesterday I had my first experience of participating on a parents panel as a donor egg recipient at the RESOLVE of the Bay State Donor Egg Conference held on Feb 7th in Waltham, MA. It was great to be able to share my story and experiences and listen to the stories of my panel members.
Everyone [...]
Read the article Beat the Biological Clock
Women turn to alternative techniques to increase their chances of conceiving after 40 – acupuncture, herbal options, and IVF. These techniques can increase your chances but add in donor eggs as an option and your odds of conceiving greatly increase. Donor eggs/IVF is certainly not for everyone but there are those [...]
Here is the link for a video segment that was run on December 23rd, 2008.
In my opinion, it was not a very balanced view of egg donation. There are not many things in this world we do for free so it seems silly to ask questions about whether they do it strictly for the money [...]
Campaign Encourages Infertile Community to Share their Story with the Ontario Government.
This article reminds me of RESOLVE (the National Infertility Association) of the Bay State’s (soon to be named RESOLVE New England’s) involvement as advocates for the implementation and protection of the Massachusetts insurance mandate that covers infertility treatment and for continued legislative and insurance [...]
In a recent article, actress Marcia Cross (Melrose Place & Desperate Housewives) speaks about her thoughts on the role of donor eggs. It is a common story – married late at 42 and desperate for a family. There are some people who feels that if she did indeed use donor eggs, she could reduce the [...]
The infertility stories of celebrities are no different from the rest of us – infertility is a struggle. Here is an excerpt from an article about Brooke Shields and her challenge with infertility.
“The couple continued IVF and had several failed cycles, during which Shields tried her best to keep perspective. “After a while, when you’re [...]
Beverly, MA-based Invo Bioscience Inc. is looking to address a serious problem — infertility — by implementing an interesting strategy.
In a nutshell
Invo’s technology and its related procedure rely on a low ovarian stimulation protocol that harvests fewer eggs from a woman than the typical in vitro fertilization method, which produces about 15. In a doctor’s office, [...]
