A hysterectomy changes one essential part of reproduction: it removes the uterus, the organ where an embryo normally implants and a pregnancy develops. Without a uterus, a person cannot carry a pregnancy in their own body with current routine fertility treatment. What...
Before becoming Nascere’s first family, Graciela and Mauricio had already spent years building a life together and sharing a dream that mattered deeply to both of them: having children. They married in 1999 and, a couple of years later, began trying to get pregnant....
Search online for information about in vitro fertilization (IVF), and you’ll run into a long list of complementary services, or “add-ons” each with a different price tag. Assisted hatching, enriched culture media, implantation window testing, immune...
A lot of men spend months trying to conceive with their partner and still assume that if there’s no pain, no erectile issues, and no obvious physical changes, their fertility must be fine. That’s usually the first mistake. Male infertility often has no symptoms, which...
Learning that an IVF cycle did not work is one of the hardest things a person can experience during a fertility journey. There is no way to soften it or rationalize what it feels like: it is a loss. And like any loss, it deserves time to be processed. If that is where...
Male infertility is more common than most conversations let on. According to the World Health Organization, 1 in 6 people will encounter a fertility obstacle at some point in their lives, and a male factor is present in 30% to 50% of diagnosed cases. Despite this, it...
