For my clients who want a little extra luxury during their stay for IVF treatment in Brno, Czech Republic, I can highly recommend one of the city’s newer hotel properties – the Barcelo Brno...

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Just in case you didn’t get enough technical details in my last post about PGD, PGS, CCS, and...

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ReproGeneis Clinic of Reproductive Medicine in Brno, Czech Republic recently announced the addition of a new English speaking doctor.  

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I found this recent article from the UK that talks about a series of public events held in London addressing the 

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The Embryoscope Time Lapse Video monitoring that I talked about here made the US NBC Evening News!   Here’s...

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The lastest publishing of the US SART IVF clinic success rates for 2011 has led to some interesting discussions about how to best use the SART or CDC data.  It also identified a few scenarios where...

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As a follow up to my post earlier this week about the 2011 donor egg cycle statistics, I wanted to also report...

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Wow, the medical community loves its acronyms.  PGD, PGS, FISH, CCS – I often get asked to explain the differences and options for genetic testing of embryos prior to transfer.  So, in sort-of...

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The 2011 IVF and donor egg IVF success rates were published by SART, and we see some interesting changes in the top clinic statistics.

The United States national average live birth rates for...

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I am honored and excited to have been selected to join the Advisory Board of the nonprofit Parents Via Egg Donation as their IVF Abroad Advisor.  It is truly a distinguished group of colleagues on...

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I am often asked about the differences of using frozen donor eggs (unfertilized donor eggs from an egg bank) vs. doing a fresh donor egg cycle.   Here are a few things to consider:

The benefits...

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I am honored and so very grateful to the families who have allowed me the opportunity and privilege of assisting them in their family building journeys in 2012.  The new baby pictures from my...

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One of my first clinic visits on this trip to the Czech Republic was to the well respected clinic Gennet.  Several years ago I had visited their original ART center (it is a full women’s center),...

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Over the next few days, I will be traveling throughout Czech visiting the most popular IVF clinics and hearing all about their latest advances and technologies on the horizon. We’ll be talking...

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So often in my work, I encounter women who have truly been through infertility hell – with so many heartbreaking losses on their path to parenthood.

We often talk about grief and those...

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Recently, some new rules went into effect, making it much harder for Czech IVF reproductive clinics to accept shipments of frozen sperm (from a partner or a donor) if the sperm originates in a non-European...

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I truly feel fortunate that I am able to do a job that I absolutely love.  What an amazing job it is, in that I get to play a role in helping clients expand their families!

This week, a wonderful...

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Dawn over at Creating A Family shared a great blog post today titled

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A study that appeared in the May 2012 New England Journal of Medicine explored the risk of birth defects when using reproductive technology. That story had the media and infertility circles buzzing,...

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