Endometriosis: Often Undetected Cause of Infertility
Women frequently learn that they have endometriosis only after seeking help for infertility.

Two women who are having trouble getting pregnant may both have the condition, but it can manifest itself very differently.

One woman may have abdominal pain, lower back pain, pain with intercourse, irregular bleeding, or diarrhea and constipation, while another may have no symptoms.

For more information on endometriosis, contact the The Endometriosis Association. Support and information on infertility is available from Resolve.

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What to Do When the Doctor Says It's Endometriosis: Everything You Need to Know to Stop the Pain and Heal Your FertilityWhat to Do When the Doctor Says It's Endometriosis: Everything You Need to Know to Stop the Pain and Heal Your Fertility
-- Endometriosis can disrupt women's lives. It is responsible for chronic, sometimes crippling pain, hundreds of thousands of missed work hours, and in its most extreme cases, infertility.

There is hope! Thomas L. Lyons, M.D., whose philosophy is to "treat the patient, not the disease," has developed leading edge surgical techniques to address endometriosis.

Dr. Lyons demystifies this puzzling disease, covering issues from fertility to dietary concerns, alternative treatments to surgical options but the main focus is on the key issue of pain management for this potentially debilitating disease.

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Stock photo: Big man in the green - by mgelinskiCompared with men of normal weight, overweight and obese men were more likely to have low sperm count, or not have any viable sperm, researchers in France found.

"These data strongly suggest that excess body weight affects sperm production," the researchers wrote in their conclusion.

They found that among men who were normal weight, 24 percent had a low sperm count and 2.6 percent had no viable sperm. Among the overweight men, 25.6 percent had a low sperm count and 4.7 percent had no viable sperm. Of the men who were obese, 32.4 percent had a low sperm count and 6.9 percent had no viable sperm.

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Test tubes and testosterone (Male Infertility)Test tubes and testosterone (Male Infertility)
-- What do you need to make a baby? A willing partner? A good sense of timing? Some wine maybe? A nice meal and some amorous music? Not always. There are times when all the romance (and luck) just simply will not do. In those times, what you need is a specimen pot, a heap of drugs, so many ultra-sound scans that your wife or partner begins to glow in the dark and an unfeasibly large amount of tea.

Providing a rare yet enlightening male perspective on the world of IVF, 'Test tubes and testosterone' is one man's experience of infertility and the IVF journey he embarked on with his wife in order to start a family. Told with humour, wit and insight, this book sheds light on issues that can be hard to discuss even with the closest of friends or relatives, making it a valuable book for anyone contemplating or going through IVF.

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IUI and IVF Success Rates at Your FingertipsAttain Fertility® has announced the release of an updated, redesigned version of their popular Attain Fertility Predictor 2.0, a free iPhone application created to help women determine their chance of having a baby through assisted reproduction technology (ART).

Based on a woman’s age, Attain Fertility Predictor 2.0 allows her to see her chances for 1, 2, and 3 cycles for both IUI and IVF in an easy-to-read chart that clearly illustrates how success rates dramatically decrease as she ages.

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Green Fertility: Nature's Secrets For Making Babies: A Powerful Proven Plan To Help You Get Pregnant Fast and Have a Healthy BabyGreen Fertility: Nature's Secrets For Making Babies: A Powerful Proven Plan To Help You Get Pregnant Fast and Have a Healthy Baby
-- Renowned fertility expert Dr. Niels Lauersen and women's natural wellness expert Colette Bouchez combine the best of nature's secrets with all that Eastern and Western medicine have to offer, in an easy, inexpensive plan to help you get pregnant fast and have super healthy babies! Based on scientific research and tested on thousands of couples, this unique natural approach to conception is designed to uncover what's keeping you from getting pregnant and help you maximize your fertility and have healthier babies - even if you have PCOS, Endometriosis or you are diagnosed with unexplained infertility!

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Menopause delay a possibilityThe researchers from the University of Tennessee claim the laboratory research could help women with premature menopause or fertility problems.

And they suggest in Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology that it could lead to the natural menopause being delayed by up to 12 years.

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Before Your Time: The Early Menopause Survival GuideBefore Your Time: The Early Menopause Survival Guide
-- Every year more than two million women enter early menopause and find themselves suddenly dealing with a host of unforeseen (and little discussed) issues. In Before Your Time, Evelina Weidman Sterling and Angie Best-Boss provide expert advice and answer all your questions, including:

Is it safe to start hormone therapy in your thirties rather than in your fifties?

What are your fertility options?

Before Your Time brings you the best-researched, most up-to-date answers to all those tough-to-ask questions. The good news: there is more research and information available now than ever before to keep you safe and healthy, and it’s all right here!

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Fertility Myths and Misconceptions - Photos.comFertility varies among populations and declines with age in both men and women, but the effects of age are more important in women than in men.

Below are some common myths and misconceptions about fertility:
♥ Age and Fertility
♥ Frequency of Intercourse
♥ Fertility Window
♥ Sexual Practices
♥ Diet
♥ Smoking

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The Garden of Fertility: A Guide to Charting Your Fertility Signals to Prevent or Achieve Pregnancy--Naturally--and to Gauge Your Reproductive HealthThe Garden of Fertility: A Guide to Charting Your Fertility Signals to Prevent or Achieve Pregnancy--Naturally--and to Gauge Your Reproductive Health
-- a guide to using fertility awareness-that is, reading fertility signals in order to prevent or achieve pregnancy. Certified fertility educator Katie Singer explains how to observe and chart fertility cycles to determine when a woman is most fertile to increase chances of conception, or to exercise birth control naturally-a method that, when followed precisely, is as effective as the Pill.
Unlike other books on fertility awareness, The Garden of Fertility also describes how to use the charts to gauge gynecological health and offers non-medical options for strengthening reproductive wellness. This book provides all the information women never learned in sex education class, but should have.

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I’ll Take a Sperm Test, to Go - Gary Cornhouse / Digital Vision / Getty ImagesWhile it’s just as likely that infertility is related to the male half of the couple, only 20% of men in duos struggling to make a baby get a sperm-count analysis early on or at all, according to data from SpermCheck Fertility, which earlier this month announced the availability of its at-home screening test for men.

SpermCheck, which is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, assesses sperm count with 98% accuracy in 10 minutes and does away with the unpleasantness of conjuring up a sperm sample in a doctor’s office.

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Infertility Journeys: Finding Your Happy EndingInfertility Journeys: Finding Your Happy Ending
-- tells the family-building journeys of eighteen couples who struggle with infertility and how they find their happy endings. Written with honesty, humor, and compassion, Infertility Journeys weaves the stories of women and men together with a wealth of information about fertility treatments, and the emotional struggles couples experience.

The book offers hope, encouragement, and inspiration, helping women and men to process unmet expectations and to navigate their family-building options. Overflowing with ideas and suggestions.

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Ladner nurse credits acupuncture, diet for ending two-year infertility battleAfter two and half years of trying to get pregnant, Melani Waterman and her husband Brett had twins — Lukas and Charlotte — on Oct. 6.

But becoming a new mom wasn’t easy for the 40-year-old pediatric nurse from Ladner.

Waterman believes it wouldn’t have been possible without the Acubalance Wellness Clinic, which used acupuncture and other alternative treatments to help solve the couple’s infertility, the result of age, stress and low sperm count.

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Acupuncture and IVF: Increase IVF Success by 40-60%Acupuncture and IVF: Increase IVF Success by 40-60%
-- Increase your success rate with in vitro fertilization (IVF) by as much as 60%

The information in this book can increase your success rate with in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technologies (ART) by as much as 60%. Research has shown that acupuncture alone can increase the success rate of IVF by 35%. By also adding Chinese herbal medicine, it is Dr. Lifang Liangs experience that you can almost double that increase.

In this book, Dr. Liang describes her extremely successful step-by-step protocols for combining acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine with IVF. Whether you are a Western MD specializing in infertility, a Chinese medical practitioner, or a couple experiencing difficulties in conceiving, this book is sure to give you new hope and a new approach to dealing with this all too common and difficult condition.

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Vitamin D deficiency responsible for infertilityAfter analyzing numerous studies, the Austrian physicians Barbara Obermayer-Pietsch and Elisabeth Lerchbaum found that vitamin D level was associated with the production of male hormones.

More specifically, there was a link between vitamin D and the increase in testosterone levels, subsequently the semen quality, Xinhua reported.

The finding has been published in the European Journal of Endocrinology’s latest issue. According to Obermayer-Pietsch, as vitamin D plays an important role in hormone production also in women, low levels of vitamin D often lead to too much testosterone, which therefore could increase the risk of infertility among women

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Budgeting for Infertility: How to Bring Home a Baby Without Breaking the BankBudgeting for Infertility: How to Bring Home a Baby Without Breaking the Bank
-- Having a baby can be one of the most wonderful times of your life -- but if you need help to conceive, it can swiftly become a staggeringly expensive undertaking. With the average cost of infertility treatments ranging from $35,000 to $85,000 in the United States (most of which is not covered by insurance companies), many women and couples find themselves having to make difficult choices about building their families.

Getting a grip on your finances is one of the few things you can do to regain control of this process. Infertility experts Evelina Weidman Sterling and Angie Best-Boss have created the ultimate guide to ensuring the most cost-effective care with the highest chances for success. With anecdotes, interviews, and advice from both doctors and patients, you can easily apply these specific money-saving strategies to your own unique situation.

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What we gained through infertilityTrying to have our own baby made John and me miserable. Admitting defeat was a heartbreak -- and a revelation.

Since puberty, I’d been telling myself a wonderful story. It starts with the ecstasy of discovering that I’m pregnant, then moves on to feeling the baby kick and placing John’s hand on my belly. He feels it, too. We’re madly in love. I give birth in a hospital, aided by a midwife. No medication, no complications. I’m a champ. And the most fulfilling relationship of my life begins at that moment, when I’m handed my firstborn.

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Empty Womb, Aching Heart: Hope and Help for Those Struggling With InfertilityEmpty Womb, Aching Heart: Hope and Help for Those Struggling With Infertility
-- Contains frank and emotionally resonate stories from both men and women facing the struggle of infertility.

Mother's Day is not a joyful occasion for all women, particularly those who would like to have children but cannot. Marlo Schalesky's Empty Womb, Aching Heart: Hope and Help for Those Struggling with Infertility does for Christian women what Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin's Tears of Sorrow, Seeds of Hope: A Jewish Spiritual Companion for Infertility and Pregnancy Loss did for Jewish women: provide comfort and camaraderie in the face of infertility and pregnancy loss.

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