When a woman is born, her ovaries already hold all the potential eggs she will have in her lifetime. Over the years, many of these eggs are lost through natural cell death and through a process called atresia, where roughly 15 to 20 immature follicles in the ovaries “compete” to mature and release an egg during ovulation. All the unsuccessful follicles are reabsorbed into the body. This process accelerates as we age, until the ovaries stop releasing eggs and we enter menopause.
Many of my clients come to me following a life shifting event that has left them in a
painful and weakened state. Using my personal experience with cancer and the stories
gathered over my years as a Life Coach and Cancer Mentor, I decided to write about
the commonalities and patterns to serve as a resource for those moving through
hardship.
When you are trying to conceive, all aspects of your health are important, particularly your sexual and pelvic health. Today we are looking at a common issue relating to your pelvic muscles: Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, also known as PFD.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer is an issue that touches almost all of us at some point in our lives: we all know someone who has been affected.
The vast majority of fertility clinic patients only seek out fertility testing when they begin to suspect that something is wrong, usually after a long period of unsuccessfully trying to get pregnant.
Egg freezing is rapidly becoming a popular option for women looking for a way to press ”pause” on their fertility, and is getting a lot of media coverage. Companies like Apple and Facebook have started to offer coverage for egg freezing as an employee benefit.
The question of whether--and when--to seek a medical opinion on your fertility can be fraught. The ability to conceive a baby when they’re ready is something many people take for granted. After years or even decades of carefully planning and avoiding pregnancy until the time was right, getting pregnant seems as if it should be “the most natural thing in the world.” When things don’t happen on schedule it can be a shock.
September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. The American Cancer Society estimates that about 22,440 women in the United States will receive a new ovarian cancer diagnosis this year. While ovarian cancer primarily affects older women (about half of those diagnosed are over 63 years old) it can also strike young women at any point in their fertile years.
The IVF experience is demanding in many ways, and one topic that comes up more often than you think is how to get through the many injections of fertility medication required during the ovarian stimulation phase.
Past and present sexual health can play an important role in fertility. Some sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) can leave scarring and inflammation which make it more difficult to conceive, even after the infection has been treated.
