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For my clients who want a little extra luxury during their stay for IVF treatment in Brno, Czech Republic, I can highly recommend one of the city’s newer hotel properties – the Barcelo Brno Palace. Lately, with my agency discount, … Continue reading
Posted in IVF Vacation, travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Barcelo Brno Palace, brno, Czech Republic IVF
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Just in case you didn’t get enough technical details in my last post about PGD, PGS, CCS, and preimplantation genetic testing, I wanted to highlight this very technical and in depth article from the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. It talks … Continue reading
Posted in CCS - comprehensive chromosome screening, Czech, Fertility News, IVF Success Rates, IVF Treatment Abroad
Tagged aneupolidy, array CGH, CGH, comprehensive chromosome screening, FISH PGD, microarray, PCR, PGD, PGS, prague, preimlantation genetic diagnosis, preimplantation genetic screening, SNP
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ReproGeneis Clinic of Reproductive Medicine in Brno, Czech Republic recently announced the addition of a new English speaking doctor. Dr. Martin Valachovic joins Dr. Tomas Vrana and the team and happens to be treating a lot of my English speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Czech, Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, egg donation, egg donor, embryo donation, IVF Success Rates
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I found this recent article from the UK that talks about a series of public events held in London addressing the perceptions of donor conceived individuals. In this case, they were primarily talking with and about adult children conceived with donor … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, egg donation, egg donor, embryo donation
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The Embryoscope Time Lapse Video monitoring that I talked about here made the US NBC Evening News! Here’s a link to the NBC News report which provides very interesting video showing how Embryoscope works and what doctors see as its primary benefits: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/50997885/#50997885 Although the medical reporter … Continue reading
Posted in Czech, Fertility News, IVF Success Rates, IVF Treatment Abroad, travel, Treatment protocols
Tagged Embryoscope, India, IVF, miscarriage, Spain, time lapse video monitoring, UK, US
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The lastest publishing of the US SART IVF clinic success rates for 2011 has led to some interesting discussions about how to best use the SART or CDC data. It also identified a few scenarios where the data simply isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in CCS - comprehensive chromosome screening, choose a clinic, Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, egg donor, egg freezing, embryo donation, Fertility News, frozen donor eggs, IVF Success Rates
Tagged lower cost donor egg ivf
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As a follow up to my post earlier this week about the 2011 donor egg cycle statistics, I wanted to also report on some interesting notes in the non-donor (or own egg) IVF Statistics. It is a bit more cumbersome … Continue reading
Wow, the medical community loves its acronyms. PGD, PGS, FISH, CCS – I often get asked to explain the differences and options for genetic testing of embryos prior to transfer. So, in sort-of layman terms, here’s my explanation. The terms PGD … Continue reading
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Tagged aCGH, CCS, CGH, competent embryo, embryo genetic testing, PCR, PGD, PGS, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, preimplantation genetic screening, SNP, vitrification
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The 2011 IVF and donor egg IVF success rates were published by SART, and we see some interesting changes in the top clinic statistics. The United States national average live birth rates for a fresh donor egg cycle is 54.9% … Continue reading
Now that the ASRM has lifted the “Experimental” label on egg freezing (also known as oocyte preservation, fertility preservation, or egg banking), more attention is being focused on options available for egg freezing, and educating the public about treatment options and identifying when … Continue reading
Posted in Czech, egg freezing, Fertility News, IVF Treatment Abroad, travel
Tagged ASRM, chemotherapy, egg banking, egg freezing, fertility preservation, oocyte freezing, radiation
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I am honored and excited to have been selected to join the Advisory Board of the nonprofit Parents Via Egg Donation as their IVF Abroad Advisor. It is truly a distinguished group of colleagues on this board and I am … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, egg donation, egg donor, Fertility News, IVF Treatment Abroad
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I am often asked about the differences of using frozen donor eggs (unfertilized donor eggs from an egg bank) vs. doing a fresh donor egg cycle. Here are a few things to consider: The benefits to frozen donor eggs (not … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, Fertility News, frozen donor eggs, IVF Treatment Abroad
Tagged ASRM, donor egg bank, donor egg pricing, egg freezing experimental, frozen donor egg success rates
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I am honored and so very grateful to the families who have allowed me the opportunity and privilege of assisting them in their family building journeys in 2012. The new baby pictures from my clients still give me chills and make my heart swell with … Continue reading
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One of my first clinic visits on this trip to the Czech Republic was to the well respected clinic Gennet. Several years ago I had visited their original ART center (it is a full women’s center), but just last year they … Continue reading
Posted in Czech, Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, egg donor, embryo donation, IVF Treatment Abroad
Tagged embryo adoption, Gennet, IVM, London, prague
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Over the next few days, I will be traveling throughout Czech visiting the most popular IVF clinics and hearing all about their latest advances and technologies on the horizon. We’ll be talking about own egg IVF treatments, ICSI, PICSI, IMSI (for any … Continue reading
Posted in Czech, Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, egg donor, embryo donation, IVF Vacation, Male Factor, travel, Uncategorized
Tagged aCGH, frozen donor eggs, IVF, PGD, PGS, prague, travel
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So often in my work, I encounter women who have truly been through infertility hell – with so many heartbreaking losses on their path to parenthood. We often talk about grief and those losses along the way - the loss of the … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, egg donor
Tagged genetic connection, grief, loss, miscarriage
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Recently, some new rules went into effect, making it much harder for Czech IVF reproductive clinics to accept shipments of frozen sperm (from a partner or a donor) if the sperm originates in a non-European Union country. The result of these new … Continue reading
Posted in Czech, Fertility News, IVF Treatment Abroad, Uncategorized
Tagged Czech IVF, donor sperm
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I truly feel fortunate that I am able to do a job that I absolutely love. What an amazing job it is, in that I get to play a role in helping clients expand their families! This week, a wonderful client … Continue reading
Dawn over at Creating A Family shared a great blog post today titled The College Essay. In it, a mother shares the story of how her college aged daughter views the fact that she was conceived with the help of a donor. Great … Continue reading
A study that appeared in the May 2012 New England Journal of Medicine explored the risk of birth defects when using reproductive technology. That story had the media and infertility circles buzzing, and lots of my clients asking questions. Is IVF safe? Is … Continue reading
Posted in Czech, Fertility News, Male Factor, Treatment protocols, Uncategorized
Tagged birth defects, Czech Republic, fertilization, Hana Krasna, ICSI, IVF, New England Journal of Medicine, ReproGenesis
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