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Family Over Forty: How Easy Is It?
WDBJ-TV Anchor/ReporterYou've heard the saying "40 is the new 30," but is it really when it comes to having children? It seems more women are having children well into their 40's, but just how easy is it to get pregnant? "I am 41," said Tina Young. "And I just had my first...Tags: Religion and Belief, The Happiest News!, Christianity, Human Interest, Social Issues
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British team hails new embryo selection method for IVF success
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - British fertility experts have devised a new IVF technique that takes thousands of snapshots of a developing embryo that they say can help doctors pick those most likely to implant successfully and develop into healthy babies. At a...Tags: Science and Technology, Trials, Litigation, United Kingdom, Hospitals and Clinics
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A Woman's First Mother's Day
Channel 2 NewsLeah Campbell's life has been quite the emotional roller coaster. When she was 25 years old, she decided to start a new life in Alaska. She wanted to start a family, so she drove up solo from San Diego. Doctors told her she'd be able to have children, but...Tags: Mother's Day, Infertility
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Road to motherhood takes an unexpected route
scollins@amnews.comThis Mother’s Day, Barbara Johnson is counting her blessings for the two beautiful children she thought she’d never have. The Perryville woman, 39, had given up hope of conceiving her own child after four years of trying. She and husband...Tags: Morphine (drug), Methadone (drug), Republic of Ireland, Lifestyle and Leisure, Family
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'We felt so alone'
South Bend TribuneKandis and Daniel Tubb spent hours analyzing the ultrasound pictures, straining to see traces of each other in their unborn son's features. Daniel said his sweet little button nose came from Kandis. And Kandis thought almost everything else looked like...Tags: Music, Human Interest, Entertainment, 1st Source Corp., Health and Medical Professionals
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"I was determined to be a mom"
South Bend TribuneAmanda Kehler packed away the baby book where she had been keeping track of her doctors' appointments and how she was feeling. She boxed up the baby outfits she had been so excited to receive from her grandmother and sisters, along with every other...Tags: Chemical Industry, Medical Procedures and Tests, Pharmaceuticals, Human Interest, Miscarriage
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Robert Edwards dies at 87; Nobel winner for first 'test-tube baby'
About 10% of married couples suffer from infertility – the inability to conceive a child naturally. Through the better part of the 20th century, physicians considered this a minor and perhaps irrelevant problem, one that contributed overall to...
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Proposed law would govern surrogate births
When Whitney Watts of Columbia agreed to bear twins on behalf of an infertile Boston couple two years ago, she entered a murky area of Maryland law. Nothing forbade her from signing a contract to carry babies conceived through in vitro fertilization and...
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S. Indiana couple preparing for quadruplets
GEORGETOWN, Ind. (AP) — Stacy Stevens and Ryan McCutcheon will have a hard time topping 2013. So far, in three short months, it's been quite a year. Maybe an historic one. The two recently became engaged, are preparing to move into a new home,... -
A variety of factors can create difficulty in couples' efforts to conceive
A number of factors can create difficulty in a couple’s efforts to conceive. In general, though, the causes of infertility can be broken down into several categories. In many cases, identifying the problem doesn’t take long. Once that is done,...
Tags: Pregnancy and Childbirth, Infertility, Mayo Clinic, Endometriosis
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More women turn to frozen eggs for help with infertility
Ellen Carpenter delayed marriage until she found Mr. Right, but by that time she was 38 years old, making it much more difficult to have children. After getting pregnant with the help of hormone injections, the Frederick County resident lost the baby &#...
Tags: Pregnancy and Childbirth, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health Treatments, Science and Technology, Infertility
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Parents live longer than couples without children, study finds
Parenthood is good for your health. That’s one way of looking at the data in a new study that compares death rates among couples with and without children. After examining data on more than 21,276 Danish couples who tried to get pregnant,...
Tags: Pregnancy and Childbirth, Family, Infertility
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