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The blog topics below address many questions patients have about fertility options, choosing a fertility clinic, advantages of particular treatment plans to match your unique needs, and wellness guidelines while on your fertility journey, and much more.
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What Does a Fertility Specialist Do?
Finding Answers to Infertility Experienced fertility specialists stress the importance of discovering where the couple’s hearts and heads are at the beginning of the process. Understanding and identifying all the facts of each person’s or couple’s journey is essential...
Why Preconception Counseling Is So Important
If you’re considering having a baby in the near future, you may already be thinking about baby names and nursery themes. Although choosing just the perfect name is an important part of the planning process, discussing your plans for pregnancy with a professional is...
How Does Ectopic Pregnancy Affect Fertility?
An ectopic pregnancy occurs whenever an embryo attaches outside of the uterine cavity. Although difficult to estimate accurately, it has been reported that as many as 2 percent of pregnancies land in ectopic locations and 98 percent of ectopic pregnancies are tubal...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Learn Signs and Symptoms to Watch For
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The month has played a key role in making women aware of the importance of early detection and treatment. In 2016, more than 240,000 women will receive a breast cancer diagnosis, according to BreastCancer.org....
Pregnancy and the Zika Virus: What You Need to Know
If you’re pregnant or trying to become pregnant, the recent news coverage of the Zika virus — and its link to birth defects in infants born to mothers who have the virus — may be a concern for you. While there’s currently no vaccine to prevent the virus, there are...
The Worst Thing You Can Say During Infertility
By Keiko Zoll, a contributor to the Seleni Institute, a nonprofit mental health and wellness center for women and mothers in New York City. Anyone who has gone through infertility knows the conversation too well. It begins at a family holiday gathering, a girls' night...
NIH Study Links Ultraviolet Filters to Pregnancy Delays
Researchers identify two chemicals that appear to reduce fertility in men. Certain sunscreen chemicals used to protect against ultraviolent rays may impair men’s ability to father children in a timely manner, according to a study by the National Institutes of Health...
Fertility Treatment and Time to Pregnancy
When choosing a fertility treatment pathway, there are many factors to consider including the head, the heart, the body, and the pocket book. While each individual person has different feelings and level of comfort with each treatment, knowing the success of each...
Egg Donation and Retrieval: A Guide for Donors
When people have difficulty conceiving, they turn to Atlantic Reproductive Medicine Specialists (ARMS) for help. There are many reasons someone might have trouble getting pregnant, including low egg number and low egg quality. In some cases, we help people conceive by...