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Part Four in a series of four articles. Healthy choices in food, exercise and medication.
Starting a family is one of the biggest decisions to make in life, yet getting pregnant and having a child when it best suits you is not always easy or as straightforward as you might think.
Part Three in a series of four articles. Preconception Care.
Starting a family is one of the biggest decisions to make in life, yet getting pregnant and having a child when it best suits you is not always easy or as straightforward as you might think.
Part Two in a series of four articles. Predicting your fertile time.
Starting a family is one of the biggest decisions to make in life, yet getting pregnant and having a child when it best suits you is not always easy or as straightforward as you might think.
Part one in a series of four articles. What happens when you stop contraception?
Starting a family is one of the biggest decisions to make in life, yet getting pregnant and having a child when it best suits you is not always easy or as straightforward as you might think.
Although most of us know some couples that seem to conceive just by looking at each other, the reality is that the average chance of conception from each ovulation is only 20-25%. So how long should you keep trying before you know there’s a problem?
Fertility patients in the greater Wellington area now have access to new ultrasound technology which gives the clearest picture yet of reproductive organs in the form of a portable ultrasound computer. The new ultrasound is part of the about-to-be-opened Fertility Associates @ Boulcott Hospital in Lower Hutt. Further, the new technology will enable a patient’s images to be sent digitally as well as being able to be used anywhere.
A fertility treatment programme that promises a baby or your money back has been taken up by 11 couples since its launch in April and is attracting interest from Australian clinics.
A Palmerston North couple desperate to have a baby has resorted to taking out newspaper ads in an effort to find a woman willing to donate her eggs.
The Ministry of Health confirmed today that frozen human eggs are now approved for use in fertility treatment. This means that eggs now in frozen storage at clinics such as Fertility Associates may now be thawed and fertilised prior to implantation.
British scientists claim they have created artificial human sperm and New Zealand fertility experts are excited that the breakthrough may enable infertile men to father children.
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