You Can Get Pregnant in Your 40's: CD3 testing

What if you are a couple that are frustrated because you have been trying desperately to get pregnant and it’s just not happening?

1. See your doctor for a peri-conception visit and get your partner tested too.

2. Eat well and take your vitamin and folic acid supplement well before conception. Improve his health too!

3. Review all medication you take with your doctor including those that are over-the-counter and those that are prescribed.

4. Stop Smoking and drinking and go easy on the coffee.

5. Be at your optimal weight and exercise.

6. Relax, relax, relax.

7. See your dentist for a checkup and cleaning.

8. Check your health insurance coverage, review your options for leave at work and make a pregnancy and baby budget.

9. See an infertility specialist (Reproductive Endocrinologist, RE) if…

10. Use an ovulation prediction kit or fertility monitor.

11. Have sex before ovulation (not after).

12. Don’t rely on the Calendar method for predicting ovulation.

13. Don’t rely on fertility charting alone to predict ovulation – test your temperature.

14. Have sex in positions that keep sperm inside the vagina longer.

15. Learn about natural fertility enhancing treatments.

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TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:

Image: Inconceivable: A Woman's Triumph over Despair and Statistics, by Julia Indichova. Publisher: Three Rivers Press (October 9, 2001)

Inconceivable: A Woman's Triumph over Despair and Statistics
by Julia Indichova

-- A memoir of hope for the thousands of women struggling with infertility, from one who beat the odds by simply tuning in to her body and tapping her well of sheer determination.

At a time when more and more women are trying to get pregnant at increasingly advanced ages, fertility specialists and homeopathic researchers boast endless treatment options.

But when Julia Indichova made the rounds of medical doctors and nontraditional healers, she was still unable to conceive a child.

It was only when she forsook their financially and emotionally draining advice, turning inward instead, that she finally met with reproductive success. Inconceivable recounts this journey from hopeless diagnoses to elated motherhood.

Anyone who has faced infertility will relate to Julia's desperate measures: acupuncture, unidentifiable black-and-white pellets, herb soup, foul-smelling fruit, even making love on red sheets.

Five reproductive endocrinologists told her that there was no documented case of anyone in her hormonal condition getting pregnant, forcing her to finally embark on her own intuitive regimen.

After eight caffeine-free, nutrient-rich, yoga-laden months, complemented by visualization exercises, Julia received amazing news; incredibly, she was pregnant.

Nine months later she gave birth to a healthy girl.

Paperback: 208 pages
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Nonprofit aims to educate consumers about the meaning of various medical screenings

Many of us are sent to the lab to have tests, but often the results that come back from these tests are poorly explained and mysterious. That's why the American Association for Clinical Chemistry has started a Web site called Lab Tests Online.

On the site, people can find information on about 250 of the most common lab tests, scroll through easy-to-understand explanations of conditions and diseases, and review outlines for general screening protocols and recommendations according to their age.

Dufour noted that although the site is written for the lay public in mind, they've found that one-quarter to one-third of users are, in fact, health-care professionals.

"And we actually have a lot of doctors who are referring patients to the site," noted Linzer. "And as a consequence, we've gotten comments back from patients that now that they have this information, they are able to go and talk more intelligently to their doctors. So, we think, in the end, that this is a site that both patients and doctors have come to appreciate."

Full article: http://healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=617832

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OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was 2-fold. The first was to estimate side-to-side variation in antral follicle counts. The second was to determine whether basal follicle-stimulating hormone levels on days 2, 3, and 4 of the same menstrual cycle are significantly different.

METHODS: Forty-one patients between the ages of 20 and 42 years undergoing monitoring for in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer were evaluated ultrasonographically for antral follicle number. The antral follicle counts were determined for each ovary by experienced ultrasonographers at the time of suppression check ultrasonography. In a separate study, 62 normal subjects (ages 20–25 and 40–45 years) underwent serial sequential serum follicle-stimulating hormone determinations on days 2–4 of the menstrual cycle, and these levels were compared.

RESULTS: There was no significant difference between right and left antral follicle counts (P = .30). Serial follicle-stimulating hormone values were not significantly different on days 2, 3, or 4 of the menstrual cycle (P = .22).

CONCLUSION: There is no significant difference between right-sided and left-sided antral follicle counts within the same individual. In turn, there is no significant difference in serial follicle-stimulating hormone levels on days 2, 3, or 4 of the menstrual cycle.

Full article: http://www.greenjournal.org/cgi/content/full/104/4/801