Brooke Shields: An advocate for fertility issues
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 not successful, you start to associate the word ‘failure’ every time you pee on a stick and it doesn’t come out the right color. What starts out as a dream becomes a project that’s all consuming.”
After her experiences, Shields became a spokesperson for Fertility LifeLines. In this role, Shields advocated for people dealing with infertility.
“When you’re having trouble conceiving, it’s often tough to know where to turn for answers, and when you’re undergoing fertility treatment, it’s not always easy to find the support that you need,” says Shields. “As natural as we’d all like it to seem, it’s important for women to be aware of potential problems and to take control.”
A life coach can be very helpful in supporting you through your challenge with infertility. Infertility can affect many aspects of your life and having someone to speak with can help build your resourcefulness through this trying time.
December 15th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
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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….
December 16th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Great Article and very true.
Our company, INVOBioscience, has developed a physician and patient friendly device that the oocytes, sperm and culture media are placed in. The sterile device is then placed in the upper vaginal cavity for 3 days, when the device is removed, the resulting embryo(s) are aspirated from the device and transfered directly to the uterus. The company is currently launching in Europe, Midddle East and parts of Asia, We hope to be applying for FDA clearance next year.
Advantages:
1) More Natural Incubation, IVF lab is not needed
2) Much less expensive since the overhead and equipment cost of a big center is not needed.
3) Geographically more available- IVF physicians can open small satalite centers in areas that cannot support the cost of an IVF center do to population. Equipment cost for the INVO equipmant is only 25,000 dollars vs 1/2 million for an IVF center.
4) Limits the chance of the patients gametes being mixed up with another couples.
Our goal is not to compete with IVF but to offer a lower cost and more available treatment to the 99% of the infertile couples that are currently not treated.
We would love to talk to Brooke about this.
INVO Bioscience
Kathleen Karloff CEO
December 16th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I really admire Brooke Shields. Her openness about the issues she’s dealt with are so refreshing and helpful, too.
December 20th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
She’s really great helping others with the same problem as her, being a coach isn’t hard to do, incidents like being depressed is more likely on infertility, so I can say Brooke is really a strong person..