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• Why yes, I do have a blog

  
  Musings of a Fat Chick — Authority: 112
  In case you were wondering, you know? Wondering things like: Does Shannon still have a blog? Considering I just paid for 2 years of hosting and domain registering, the answer is: Yes. Nominally. I have a somewhat blog, I guess you could say.I just don’t have much to write about. Oh yes, there is the [...]
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• The Surprising Reason Why Being Overweight Isn’t Healthy

  
  Healthy Living — Authority: 478
  Fredrik Broden By Ginny Graves From Health magazine It’s shocking, but it’s true: Being a woman who’s more than 20 pounds overweight may actually hike your risk of getting poor medical treatment. In fact, weighing too much can have surprising—and devastating—health repercussions beyond the usual ...
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• Daily sex ‘helps improve sperm quality’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, Dec 26 (ANI): Having sex every day improves men’s sperm quality, an Australian study has revealed.In a study of men with fertility problems, researchers found that daily ejaculation for a week cut the amount of DNA damage seen in sperm samples.“All that we knew was that intercourse on the day of ...
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• UP & The Gift of Infertility

  
  Natural Family Planning — Authority: 123
  Have you seen the movie UP ? It looked cute, and my Dad recommended it, so we thought we’d give it a go. “Cute” is no longer an adequate word to describe this film for me because what could have been a schmaltzy animated film ended up being a dramatic commentary on life, love and fatherhood. Of course, it’s ...
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• Bahrain to Restrict In Vitro Fertilisation

  
  Bahraini.TV — Authority: 140
  Health authorities in Bahrain plan to impose restrictions on In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) to reduce death cases among premature babies here.A draft law is being prepared by the ministry of health to monitor private hospitals and clinics to prevent unnecessary IVF procedures performed by them to make profits.A total of ...
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• Meet Meeny and Miney Moo!

  
  Mommy Blogs @ JustMommies — Authority: 140
  I am home from the transfer. Everything went really well. We transferred two embryos. I am calling them Meeny & Miney Moo.The transfer didn’t really hurt at all and was really fast. I had to go in with a full bladder and that was the one thing I was worrying about. [...]
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• NHS to pay for British Woman to get IVF with Dead Husbands Sperm

  
  Mary Meets Dolly — Authority: 106
  There have been a lot of crazy stories about IVF coming out these days.  These stories, that I suppose are written to inspire and uplift, only disappoint and anger me.  A typical tale is this one from The Sun in the UK.  A woman is undergoing IVF with her dead husbands sperm...and the taxpayers of England are ...
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• NY Times Article on Surrogacy – the Debate Continues

  
  Surrogacy & Egg Donation Issues — Authority: 106
  Surrogacy & the Media – With all of the attention this industry has given the NY Times Surrogacy article last week, which I myself had blogged about here, I wanted to give everyone a few additional updates to ponder.  Once is from the American Fertility Association, and the other is from the NY Times themselves ...
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• Tasmania urges men to help end state’s sperm drought

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Melbourne, Dec 21 (ANI): Tasmania’s government has appealed the state’s men to come forward and help the state’s fast depleting sperm stock.According to the Sunday Tasmanian, the state had only four sperm donors left and for the first time in the program’s 35-year history women opting for In vitro ...
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• How Vitamins and Supplements Combat Infertility

  
  Health 2 u — Authority: 130
  Nearly 25% of couples have trouble conceiving and often turn to medical procedures and treatments to increase their chances of starting a family.  These procedures are often more successful when you take certain vitamins and supplements that improve your chances.  Vitamins and supplements can improve outcomes for ...
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• Retrieval went well. Transfer is on Monday!

  
  Mommy Blogs @ JustMommies — Authority: 140
  I am sorry for not updating my blog yesterday.  Between the valium, phenergan, versed, and the pain med (I think I got something for pain but who knows.  I was out of it), yesterday was an exhausting day.  I don’t remember a whole lot about the retrieval.  I do remember a point [...]
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• Three Days Later

  
  on becoming awesome — Authority: 128
  All I can think about lately is how my body betrayed us.  HELLO UTERUS, didn’t you get the memo you were supposed to IMPLANT the EMBRYOS because we spent LOTS OF MONEY on this?! I look at my still-bruised and sore stomach and think what a waste of money those $1,000 shots were.  I still have an unopened box of ...
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• Women Looking For Alternatives to the Costs of IVF

  
  Announced Articles & Press Releases — Authority: 151
  Many women are choosing unusual methods in their quest to become pregnant. One of the things pushing women towards many of these unorthodox methods is the exploding cost of IVF. Going to a clinic and being quoted a cost of $10,000 can be sticker price to many people.And $10,000 is firmly on the low end [...]
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• Did my trigger shot last night! It’s on for Saturday!!

  
  Mommy Blogs @ JustMommies — Authority: 140
  I wanted to blog last night but yesterday was so stressful for me that by the time I got done with my trigger shot I just wanted to go to bed.  I did the shot all by myself.  I am very proud of myself for that.Last night I decided that I needed to [...]
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• Messing with nature. Designer babies. Baby selling. Surrogacy.

  
  Minnesota Family Council — Authority: 119
  Heres an interesting New York Times article on the practice of surrogacy. Surrogacy is where an individual or couple contracts with another woman who agrees to carry a embryo to term for them. the child maybe created with their genetic material or somebody elses. Because money is transferred and the baby can ...
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• Negative

  
  on becoming awesome — Authority: 128
  I’ve known since Monday that my pregnancy test today would come back negative. I woke up at 2:00 this morning and knew for sure without a doubt that it was negative, and then I didn’t sleep a wink after that.  I’m exhausted today. But this morning was the blood draw so we could have confirmation and quit with ...
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• Everyday miracles.

  
  existere (latin): to stand out, to emerge. — Authority: 123
  Curved from both sides, a little bit lumpy and a little bit smooth the day before you both came out from under my heart. And when you came, carefully birthed from the cut in my stomach, I really couldn’t comprehend where these two beautiful children had come from. Such beautiful twins, they said, ...
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• Retrieval didn’t happen today

  
  Mommy Blogs @ JustMommies — Authority: 140
  Sorry for the late update.  After I got home from my appointment on Tuesday I just felt awful.  These meds are making me feel just lousy.  I am barely functioning to be honest.  I ended up spending half the day in bed on Tuesday and was feeling better for a while yesterday but then ended [...]
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• Bewildered and whimpering.

  
  Nuts in May — Authority: 119
  Spending the entire day and evening all by myself leads to excess introspection (I’m grounded by the misbehaviour of my uterus. H is going to a work Christmas ‘do’ and won’t be back until midnight). [OK, brief unpleasant interlude in which I realised I was leaking through my enormous sanitary towel and ...
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• IVF treatment and sex discrimination

  
  PJH Law - Employment Law Blog — Authority: 131
  Another interesting EAT case to report ….. that of Sahota v Home Office and Pipkin.   Mrs Sahota lost her claim of sex discrimination at the Employment Tribunal, the alleged acts of discrimination including being suspended by her employer for taking ‘too much time off work’ due to IVF treatment.  The EAT ...
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