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Black Friday When You’re in the Red
photo credit: iamnee/ freedigitalphotos.net The true die-hard Black Friday shoppers will likely miss this post until tomorrow…maybe even Monday. They will be rushing out from the Thanksgiving...
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Embryo Donation vs. Traditional Adoption
Photo credit: Nenetus/ freedigitalphotos.net Embryo Donation is often mistakenly referred to as Embryo Adoption. The proper term for a couple giving their unused embryos to another person or couple...
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Will YOU Win Long Island IVF’s Fur-Baby Holiday Photo Contest?
Photo of Minion by Liz Plenty of people love their pets. But no one loves them like those suffering from infertility. When you’re longing for a baby to hold, that four-legged furry thing becomes your...
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3 Tips for Reducing Holiday Stress of Infertility
photo credit: Stuart Miles/ freedigitalphotos.net It’s heating up. The holiday countdown is on. Stress is rising. And then, there’s infertility to push you off the cliff you’re precariously clinging...
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Resuscitating Hope When Infertile on New Year’s
photo credit: Anoop Krishnan/ freedigitalphotos.net Well, it’s the end of another year. If you’re not pregnant yet and desperately want to be, it is a time of frustration, despair, and...
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Infertility Treatment and Superstitions
image courtesy of wpclipart.com Anyone out there ever have a transfer or retrieval or IUI or pregnancy test on a Friday the 13th? I did. How did you feel about that? Defeated and doomed from the...
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Three Reasons to Keep an Infertility Journal
photo credit: Punsayaporn/ freedigitalphotos.net I’m giving you a New Year’s resolution. You’ll thank me for it later. I know why most of you don’t keep a journal. I missed out on the very beginning...
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Infertility and Powerball Dreams
Photo credit: Mister GC/ freedigitalphotos.net If I had $100 for every infertile woman or couple out there who is dreaming that the Powerball win could fund their fertility treatment, well… I’d be...
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IVF and Comprehensive Chromosomal Screening (CCS) a/k/a Pre-embryo Genetic...
credit T. Minella In 1985, when I started my fellowship training at the Jones Institute, IVF technology was so new that we numbered each baby that was born as a result of IVF and it was still in...
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IVF in a Snow Storm: 10 Survival Tips
credit: T. Minella So what do you do when….on top of the regular stress of an IVF cycle… there’s a blizzard of record-breaking proportions on the day of your retrieval or transfer? Or on the day of...
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When Cupid’s Packing an IM Syringe
photo credit: OZPhotography/ free digitalphotos.net Is that a syringe in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? Seriously, there’s just no easy way to candy coat the reality of being...
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Gender Reveal Parties After Infertility
Photo credit and cake by: Toni Doster Repko/Sweet Angel Cakes You’ve waited forever for this baby…or babies. After months… or years…of medical intervention, immeasurable stress, and possible losses or...
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Infertile? You’ll Need the Strength of Ten Grinches… Plus Two
photo credit: T.Minella Today is Dr. Seuss’ birthday. Just hearing his name calls to mind our favorite childhood books with their catchy rhymes and quirky characters. Green Eggs and Ham. The Cat in...
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Treating International Fertility Patients
Credit: WpClipart.com (public domain photo) My wife says I don’t show my emotions enough. Perhaps this is a flaw in my character. However, as a reproductive endocrinologist whether it is in the...
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Improving IVF Success with Acupuncture as Long Island IVF
image credit: Praisaeng/ freedigitalphotos.net I have been studying and practicing fertility treatment since 1985. Over the past 31 years, I’ve witnessed first-hand the enormously improved success...
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Improving IVF Success With Acupuncture
image credit: Praisaeng/ Freedigitalphotos.net I have been studying and practicing fertility treatment since 1985. Over the past 31 years, I’ve witnessed first-hand the enormously improved success we...
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Attention Long Island Teachers and Government Employees!
Long Island IVF is a designated Center of Excellence for the Empire Plan, the insurance provider for many local Teachers as well as other NY State and Local Government Employees. In addition to...
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8 Things to #StartAsking and #KEEPAsking after #NIAW
image courtesy of Resolve, the National Infertility Association Honestly, my first reaction to this year’s NAIW #StartAsking theme wasn’t positive. It just didn’t sit right with me for some nagging...
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Infertility, Mother’s Day, and Something Promising
Hands down, Mother’s Day is the hardest day of the year if you’re an infertile woman. There are just too many ways you are suffering with hearts too heavy for words to soothe. Most ache from the pain...
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Long Island IVF’s New Donor Egg Website
The practice that brought Long Island its first donor egg baby decades ago just completely revamped its Donor Egg Program website! Now, the most pressing info you want is even easier to access on a...
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