June is Infertility Awareness Month across the globe. The goal is to increase awareness regarding numerous infertility issues faced by couples across the globe. This includes issues that can impact Male & Female fertility. During this month, several myths regarding infertility are debunked and a lot of options are brought forward to those who may…
The Month of May is Mental Health Awareness Month. It is to promote understanding, acceptance, and support for individuals living with mental health conditions, as well as advocate for mental health equity and access to quality care For those navigating infertility, the journey can be quite challenging and can impact one’s mental health. The stigmas…
The tech giant is expanding the benefits it offers to UK-based employees, including paying for four rounds of IVF, an option for employees to undertake elective egg freezing, alongside support for adoption, surrogacy and other fertility help. The company said that supporting employees to build families was “core to our employee-centric culture”. Its existing benefits…
Many of my readers have really supportive partners who are joining them in eliminating toxins, eating a clean-whole foods diet, and implementing self-care through a mind-body fertility practice. This is great! Some of my readers have said- hey, but what should my man put in his smoothie? I want his sperm count, morphology, vitality, motility, etc., to be…
As three in ten Nigerian couples struggle to conceive, Bridge Clinic, an assisted reproductive centre with a 25-year history of helping families, has warned that male infertility is becoming increasingly prevalent. More men are struggling to produce potent sperm partly due to poor diet, recreational drug use, and other environmental factors, reducing the chances of…
What is fenomatch? Fenomatch is an Artificial Intelligence-based platform for fertility clinics and banks. With it, fertility centers can choose the most suitable donor for each patient and improve the selection process at all levels. Fenomatch allows professionals to find the right donor through phenotypic, genetic and biometric comparison. Fenomatch makes the donor selection process…
More than 100 patients who had eggs and embryos frozen at a leading clinic have been told they may have been damaged due to a fault in the freezing process. The clinic, at Guy’s Hospital in London, said it may have unwittingly used some bottles of a faulty freezing solution in September and October 2022.…
Writer Sophie Beresiner documents her surrogacy journey in her new book The Mother Project, which British Vogue’s beauty director Jessica Diner read “cover to cover in two sittings, heart in mouth, following every twist and turn with anticipation”. “The journey to motherhood can be more complex for some than others,” says Jessica. “And The Mother Project shines a beacon of…
More women are delaying pregnancy to pursue education, develop their careers, choose a partner, or decide to become a single parent by choice. Likely both because of delaying fertility and because pregnancy by that time is so strongly desired, the process of trying to conceive can be both exciting and stressful for many individuals and…
Top practitioners of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF)/Assisted Reproductive Technique (ART) in Nigeria have dismissed studies that babies born through IVF are more susceptible to cancer, infertility and other degenerative diseases. They also dismissed a report published, last week, that suggests, to survive the harsh economy, Nigerian youths have resorted to selling their male and female…
