When my son was born after successful IVF treatment, I started to wonder exactly how many other IVF babies there were and what percentage they made of the total number of children born. So I found...
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When I first started fertility treatment, I didn’t like being part of a small minority of women trying to have a child via IVF. But it turned out that several couples I knew were in the same...
If you’re anything like me, you may have found yourself gaining a couple of pounds around the time of your egg retrieval. Unless you’ve suddenly changed your eating and exercising habits, this is...
The egg retrieval process does unusual things to your ovaries. It causes them to become enlarged and swollen after which they’re punctured with a needle so that their eggs can be sucked out. So...
Obviously, IVF has become more common since the first ‘test tube’ baby was born in 1978, and since it became a more widely available fertility treatment in the 90s, but I wanted to know whether...
After an egg retrieval it’s common to feel an uncomfortable pressure on your stomach or abdomen. It can feel exactly like trapped wind and so it’s completely understandable for you to wonder...