You Can Get Pregnant in Your 40's: February 2010

London Womens Clinic doctor defends IVF for over-50s

Dr Kamal Ahuja works at the London Women's Clinic, which has offered IVF to Susan Tollefsen, 59. It previously had an age limit of 50.

Dr Ahuja said the U-turn had been prompted by the fact that women can now store their embryos until they are 55. He also confirmed the clinic was in advanced discussions with a 57-year-old woman.

Dr Ahuja told the Standard: “Our clinic policy has been 50 and under but now we would say that we would talk to older patients. In the past I've cast doubt about IVF for older mothers, but you have to look at how long we now live.

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TIME PRESSURES - Vanessa Thompson conceived her twins Jak and Zeb through IVF after struggling to fall pregnant in her late thirties

A NEW test that can measure a woman's egg reserve is set to revolutionize the way women think about their future.

The test, dubbed the "egg timer", will allow women for the first time to know how fast their biological clock is ticking.

"I think this is a big step forward," medical director of IVF Australia, Assistant Professor Peter Illingworth, told The Sunday Mail.

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A better understanding of the way the ovary develops could help unravel the condition of premature menopause, a distressing condition that affects hundreds of thousands of British women.

It could also one day lead to a drug that puts the ovaries on 'pause', delaying menopause and preserving a woman's stock of eggs until she feels ready to have a family.

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Why Have Infertile Couples not Been Told These Facts

Millions of people have celiac disease, but most don’t know they have it, in part because symptoms can be so varied. It is an often overlooked digestive disorder that causes damage to the small intestine when gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye, is eaten.

Infertility seems to be more common in women with untreated celiac disease. Other gynecological and obstetrical problems may also be more common, including miscarriages and preterm births.

For men, problems can include abnormal sperm -- such as lower sperm numbers, altered shape, and reduced function. Men with untreated celiac disease may also have lower testosterone levels.

The good news is that with proper treatment with a gluten-free diet and correction of nutritional deficiencies, the prognosis for future pregnancies is much improved.

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Got a Cold and Trying to Get Pregnant - Be Careful About Medications

If you are pregnant or trying to conceive, could certain cold medications harm your baby or impact your chances of getting pregnant?

Let’s break that question down into two parts and discuss the infertility aspects of it first. In terms of getting pregnant, cold medications will not affect your fertility as long as they are taken in the correct and recommended dosages.

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Studies have come to conflicting conclusions as to whether obesity impairs a man’s fertility. But several recent ones have found that obese men tend to have poorer quality sperm than leaner men do — including lower sperm counts and fewer progressively motile sperm, which refers to sperm that swim forward in a straight line rather than moving about aimlessly.

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Institute recruiting couples for study of natural family planning

MILWAUKEE (CNS) -- Researchers at Marquette University's Institute for Natural Family Planning are recruiting couples interested in preventing pregnancy naturally for a study involving two Web-based methods of natural family planning.

The study, which is funded by a $595,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will compare two methods of natural family planning.

The "high-tech" Marquette Model of natural family planning uses the ClearBlue Easy fertility monitor to estimate the beginning and end of the time of fertility in a woman's menstrual cycle, while the "low-tech" method monitors cervical mucus as the sole biological indicator of fertility.

For more information about the study, go to www.marquette.edu/nursing/FederalResearchStudy.shtml.

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A NEW test allowing women to calculate how quickly their biological clock is ticking will be available in Australia from next month.

A NEW test allowing women to calculate how quickly their biological clock is ticking will be available in Australia from next month.

The $65 blood test will calculate how many eggs a woman has left, News Limited reports.

It will allow them to determine their level of fertility and whether they have time to try for natural conception.

The test will be offered by IVF Australia.

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Women Over 35 Told to Keep Contraception Despite Infertility Messages

Launching its new campaign, Conceivable?, the FPA warned that age alone is not a barrier to birth.

"It's important that women realize it's entirely conceivable that just one night of unprotected sex in your late 30s, 40s, even 50s can end in an unplanned pregnancy."

Data for England and Wales shows abortion rates among women aged 40 to 44 are the same as for under-16s - four per each 1,000 women.

Other figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal women between 30 and 34 continue to have the highest fertility rate, at 113.1 per 1,000 women.

But the rate among women aged 40 and over has more than doubled since 1988, from 5.1 to 12.6 per 1,000 women, with more than 26,000 live births to women in this age group in 2008.

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BOCA RATON, FL -- Why can't some couples get pregnant? The problems can range from a woman's age to poor quality eggs and sperm. And the solutions can range from surgery to expensive fertility treatments.

But one local doctor is offering a stress free option that's helping many couples conceive the child of their dreams.

For information on Dr. Zoll's practice, click here.

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FIT FOR LIFE - Getting yourself in shape increases your chances of conception

In their anxiety to beat the biological clock, many couples may be opting unnecessarily for assisted conception before they have exhausted natural alternatives that cost less in time, money and emotion.

So, if your new year's resolution was to get pregnant in 2010, here are some ways to improve your chances with none of the expense, side-effects or hassle of IVF.

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Expert Advice - Dr. Maria New of Mount Sinai School, an authority on nonclassical congenital adrenal hyperplasia, says treatment is cheap and easy.

For more than four years, Joann Citrone of West Deptford, N.J., went through round after round of expensive infertility treatments. But it wasn’t until two years after she and her husband adopted their second child from South Korea that she was finally given a correct diagnosis.

She suffered from a common yet often overlooked condition that can lead to infertility and a host of perplexing symptoms — yet is easily treated when it is properly diagnosed.

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Reduced fertility linked to flame retardant exposure

Women with high levels of flame retardants in their blood took longer to become pregnant compared with those who had lower levels, a study by researchers at the University of California Berkeley has found.

The study in the Jan 26, 2010 in the Journal Environmental Health Perspectives showed each 10-fold increase in four types of polybrominated diphenyl ethers or PBDEs was associated with a 30 percent decrease in the likelihood of becoming pregnant each month.

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Rise in unwanted pregnancies shows women remain fertile beyond age of 35

THE myth that women become infertile when they hit 35 is being exposed.

More and more of us are having unplanned pregnancies in our late 30s and 40s.

While many over 35s do struggle to conceive, figures show the birth rate in over 35s has shot up.

The truth is, if you are still having regular periods and unprotected sex, you could become pregnant.

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EU Approves First Long-Acting Fertility Treatment

February 2, 2010 — The European Commission (EC) has approved corifollitropin alfa subcutaneous injection (Elonva, Merck and Company, Inc), the first sustained follicle stimulant.

Corifollitropin is indicated for controlled ovarian stimulation (COS) in combination with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist for the development of multiple follicles in women participating in an assisted reproductive technology program.

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Dr. Sheila Crowe, a professor in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology in the department of medicine at the University of Virginia, recently joined the Consults blog to answer reader questions about celiac disease, an often overlooked digestive disorder that causes damage to the small intestine when gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye, is eaten.

Millions of people have celiac disease, but most don’t know they have it, in part because symptoms can be so varied. Here, Dr. Crowe responds to a reader concerned about the links between celiac disease and infertility.

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