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19th
Dec
2011Having children in your 40s - what's the reality?
Celebrity magazines are full of stories about older stars who’ve easily had children later in life. But what’s the reality behind the headline?
Having children in your 40s isn’t impossible. But statistically, it’s unlikely to happen naturally. Purely because once you’re in your 40s, your egg quality simply isn’t good enough anymore. And more often than not, if you do get pregnant it’s more likely to result in complications or end in miscarriage than a h...
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22nd
Nov
2011IVF Success - Why it's important for men to be healthy too
A woman’s fertility is known to be linked to health factors including weight and lifestyle, but now a new study has shown just how important it is for men to be healthy too if they’re about to undergo infertility treatment with their partner.
Researchers in Brazil found that the motility and concentration of a man’s sperm can be affected by diet and weight.
In their study of 250 men, whose partners were all undergoing Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) treatment – ...
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21st
Oct
2011Do we finally have the answer to recurrent miscarriages?
New research may have revealed why some women have recurrent miscarriages and others can’t get pregnant at all.
Scientists have identified a protein – SGK1 – which if the levels in the body are too high causes infertility, and if too low can cause miscarriage.
The team from Imperial College London took samples from over 100 women and those with unexplained infertility had high levels of SGK1, whilst those who miscarried had low levels.
The discovery of this protein is ...
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17th
Aug
2011How long can you wait to have a baby?
Scientists at St Andrews, Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities in Scotland have made further advances in helping identify how much time a woman has before her fertility starts to decline.
By studying samples from over 3,000 women, researchers were able to identify what a ‘normal’ range of anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) is in a healthy woman and how it declines with age. AMH is measured as a way of seeing how active the ovaries are and what reserves of eggs a woman has remaining.
Using ...
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5th
Jul
2011Fertility in your 40s
Fertility and pregnancy in women over 40 has been in the media again recently, with case studies of women in this age group who had fallen pregnant naturally and questioning whether age is truly the defining factor when it comes to fertility. Are older women spending money needlessly on IVF?
It was a confusing message – on the one hand were a one or two women featured, who had no trouble getting pregnant at 40 and above. But on the other hand, there were women in the same article who had ...
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22nd
Jun
2011So what is the best age to conceive?
What’s the best age to have a baby? According to a new survey of over 3,000 women, the majority think that 29 is the ideal time to start a family because it’s when they will feel secure enough in terms of their relationship and their finances to have a baby.
This comes as no surprise. Women are putting off having children until the ‘right time’ whether it’s due to career commitment or relationships. But what we should all remember is that a woman’s natural fe...
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27th
Apr
2011Fertility treatment abroad - what's the real cost?
A recent survey by Infertility Network UK has revealed the reasons why some couples decide to go abroad for fertility treatment.
The top three reasons were shorter waiting times, cost of treatment compared to the UK and perceived higher success rates at foreign clinics.
But is this really the case? If you’re using a private infertility clinic like Manchester Fertility Services, there’s no waiting lists for treatments such as IVF, ICSI and also treatment using donor sperm, because w...
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7th
Mar
2011Coleiac Disease and male fertility
Men who suffer from Coleiac disease – an auto-immune condition where the immune system reacts to gluten found in wheat, barley and rye - don’t need to worry about whether the intolerance affects their fertility. An extensive study in Sweden has shown that men who have the condition are no less fertile than those who don’t...
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4th
Feb
2011Why wait to have children?
Most women are aware that their fertility declines with age, but now an official study by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has warned that women who wait until later in life have much more difficulty getting pregnant than younger women.
In fact, according to the report women age 35 are six times more likely to have problems conceiving than women age 25. Not only are older women making it harder for themselves to have children, they are also more at risk of serious medica...
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14th
Jan
2011Will IVF predictor prove accurate?
From today a new calculator is available online which claims to tell people considering IVF treatment how likely it is to be a success.
The new online tool, created by academics at Glasgow and Bristol, uses data held by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), on more than 144,000 IVF cycles and their outcomes. The calculator considers the woman’s age, how many years she has been trying to get pregnant, what doctors say is the cause of the infertility, what previous IVF atte...
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