1. Understanding Your Fertility – A Look at OAR
a. Discuss why women should undergo fertility testing.
b. Provide more detail about what the OAR measures (AMH, inhibin B, FSH and estradiol) and what it can tell a woman about her reproductive potential.
c. Note: If NYFS doesn’t use the OAR, we can talk about a different fertility test.
2. Don’t Forget About the Guys – The Male Fertility Evaluation
a. Discuss how men are sometimes left out of the fertility evaluation process.
b. Explain why it’s important evaluate the man and what’s involved in the process.
3. Preconception Genetic Screening – A Proactive Approach to Pregnancy
a. Discuss why preconception genetic screening is important for any couple who is thinking about getting pregnant (even if they don’t
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What You Need to Know About PGS
a. Provide an overview of PGS, including how it works and why a fertility specialists would recommend it (advanced maternal age, genetic disorders, recurrent pregnancy loss, repeated IVF failure).
b. Perhaps also explain how PGD is different.
c. Note: NYFS has an ASRM-related blog post from 2015 discussing how PGS is the next big thing in fertility treatment. This new post could be a good update.
6. Is Egg Freezing Right for You?
a. Discuss reasons why women might consider egg freezing (a desire to delay pregnancy, preparation for cancer treatment or deployment) and what questions a woman should ask herself before committing to the procedure.
7. When to Consider Egg Donation – Another Family Building Tool
a. Explain why a woman might select egg donation (lack of ovaries, advanced maternal age) and the different sources for donor eggs (friend, family member, or anonymous donor).
8. Advanced Maternal Age and Pregnancy
a. Discuss how age impacts a woman’s fertility and define advanced maternal.
b. Explain the options for women of advanced maternal age. Provide a positive look at family building through egg donation.
9. Celebrities and Fertility Treatments – They’re Just Like
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a form of genetic testing. It is similar to the screening of abnormal chromosome count only used to test for genetic diseases. The fertility institutes have used this to take gender selection to the next level. Stating that this has a greater than 99,9% success rate.
Extend Fertility offered storage services to their clients by partnering with a secure cryopreservation facility. Also, the company promoted its business by educating potential customers via its programs and activities. Extend Fertility generate profit from egg freezing product, license, and consumers service fee and payment from fertility clinics. The company collected ongoing storage fee and about 40% of the total cost of the procedure. The rest of money would split between medical clinics and pharmaceutical. Christy expected 80% gross margin on the services provided by the company.
Bitzer stated that exigence, which was capable of modification by way of discourse was needed (Herrick, 2016). As IVG research raises many ethical questions, its use in human analysis has been delayed. Questions of morality are raised concerning whether same sex couples should be able to procreate biologically, as well as whether the ability to choose genetic traits for offspring would put couples who can afford the treatment method at an unfair advantage over individuals who cannot afford such methods. Additionally, the question rises of whether the embryos that are created but not used in the procreation should be destroyed, donated, or frozen (Bourne, Douglas, & Savulescu, 2012). As these questions are based on morality and ethics, as opposed to statistics and data, they can be resolved through rhetorical dialogue and
Another commonly used method of induction is the injection of follicle stimulating hormones, or FSH. For this treatment, the patient is given FSH injections while being monitored by a physician. The physician uses ultrasound to keep count of the number of mature eggs in the woman’s ovaries. When the physician decides that there are enough eggs, a second hormone injection is then given that causes the release of the eggs from the ovaries. The final step is fertilization through sexual intercourse or artificial insemination (ACOG, 2004).
Intended audience: My ideal audience for this speech would be pre-pregnancy and currently pregnant couples.
Making big choices in life can be difficult, especially if that big choice is having children. There are many men and women who are infertile that still want to have children. Most decide to adopt other children who do not have families or their families do not want them. But when adoption is not an option, there is now a way where those men and women can have their own children together through fertility treatments. Fertility treatments could be a good thing:being able to freeze egg and sperm, they can help infertile couples, and avoiding transmitted diseases would be easier.
For one of our first objective, we wanted the students at Magnolia Science Academy to be able to identify at the end of the session three, different contraceptives, which then changed it to one because of time constraints. To test this objective to see if it was absorbed we placed it as the question in the post-test portion of the session. The question was stated, “to name one way to prevent pregnancy.” In Appendix A, figure 1, you can see the graph in detail.
Imagine this, you are fertility doctor who in the past had helped a twenty-six year old, single woman to have six babies; and now at the age of thirty-three years old that same single woman whose children are now between the ages of two and seven walks into your office and says “I am ready for my next baby”, (her last six embryos are in your possession). What would you
Infertility can be extremely challenging for couples to overcome. It can be not only physically draining, but emotionally and mentally as well. Infertility can be easily compared to a roller coaster, with emotions going up and down from hope and optimism plummeting down to frustration and even grief after many the couple has tried for a long period of time. While for me personally, I first think of women when I think of infertility, the men play a large role as well. They are also hoping for children and the biological reason for the infertility can be from either sex. Research has also shown that infertility can make physically difficult and cause anxiety in couples, which could led to increased difficulty in conceiving (Domar & Gordon,
Our frozen egg bank network serves intended parents from a wide of backgrounds and cultures. Many intended
“The process of egg cell donation is time-consuming, uncomfortable and even painful, requires surgery, and carries a multitude of risks, complications, and side effects.” (Chapter Preface)
October 2001 - Fertility experts announce they will begin to offer PGD for use in sex selection to clients
The physicians at our Austin fertility center understand that there are many reasons why you could be interested in delaying motherhood. Whatever your reason, egg freezing can allow you to save your young and healthy eggs for when you feel ready to start a family.
In the United States, an estimated 2.3 million couples are considered infertile [Wekesser, 1996]. This creates a large need for infertility specialists and clinics specializing in fertility treatments. With the quickly advancing field of rep roductive services and the quest for creating better, healthier babies, a new service called Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) is being offered in conjunction with In vitro fertilization.
Yes, I would 100% do this. I want my daughter to do this. I want my friends to do this, and my friends’ daughters to do this. You never know where your life is going to take you, so you should always be prepared.