A cancer diagnosis can change your priorities overnight. Between medical tests, appointments, and decisions about treatment, you may find yourself facing a question you never expected to ask: What does this mean for my plans to become a mother? Some cancer treatments,...
If you are trying to get pregnant and have been researching fertility treatments, chances are you have come across the name letrozole. You may also have read about other patients’ experiences, seen recommendations on social media, or found explanations of how...
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....
Building a family doesn’t look the same for every couple. For many LGBTQ+ families, and female couples in particular, that conversation comes with excitement, hope, and a lot of questions. Who provides the eggs? Who carries the pregnancy? How do you even make...