by Corey Whelan For lesbians, there are a number of viable routes that can be considered when achieving motherhood is the goal.  Some women will explore the concept of at home insemination versus intrauterine insemination performed in a doctor’s office, and others will find themselves ...

by Patricia Mendell, LCSW, AFA Mental Health Advisory Council How could I now be “too pregnant”? My husband and I had discussed our IVF plan ahead of time. We would not transfer back more than two embryos, maybe even just one. Reduction was never going to be a decision that we would ...

A Book Review by Maria Portella 'Thirty-something and the clock is ticking' by Kasey Edwards I came across this book completely by chance - I had previoulsy ignored an article about it in one of those trashy gossip style magazines dismissing it as 'just another sensationalist IVF story'. But a ...

by Iris Waichler, LCSW  I recently read a blog by actress Elisabeth Rohm.  She is known for her role as attorney Serena Southerlyn on Law and Order.  She became a mother after in vitro fertilization.  Since then she has worked to help support people experiencing infertility ...

by Corey Whelan For many women who are struggling to conceive a baby, the practice of acupuncture, a form of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), has proven to be a successful enhancement to Western reproductive protocols.  While not universally accepted, over the past decade the number of ...

by Jamie Schenk DeWitt I had just gotten home from an evening out with my girlfriends.  A glass of wine and some salmon and grilled vegetables later I walked into my house to a voicemail message waiting for me on the answering machine. We have one of those old school answering machines with ...

Current statistics show that around 60,000 babies are born as a result of assisted reproductive technology every year in the United States alone. We know that most of The AFA's readership is comprised of the men and women who are currently knee deep in their infertility treatment, and so hope that ...

by Jean Benward, L.C.S.W. In part, this story is about infertile couples, with apparently good intent, who engaged in surrogacy outside the boundaries of good practice. This is about trusted professionals who were able to take advantage of infertile couples.   It has a familiar ring to ...

This has been an unsettling week in the world of assisted reproduction, and most especially, surrogacy.  As two professionals who have worked in this field for many, many years and who have created our respective families through assisted reproduction, including surrogacy, we have been in a ...

by Karin Russ MS, RN We hear a lot about bisphenol A (BPA) in the news lately.  While the federal government calls for further study of BPA, state legislatures are taking action to ban the substance in children’s products.  Even in the absence of laws limiting the use of ...