Infertility affects approximately 15% of couples worldwide, representing 48.5 million couples. It has been established that dysfunction of the male reproductive sphere is the cause of childlessness in 20-30% of cases. Infertility is associated with negative psychosocial outcomes for men. And over the years, this problem has become more and more common. Assisted reproductive technologies…
In low-resource settings such as Nigeria, accessing basic assisted reproductive technology treatments can be challenging or impossible for many couples who want to conceive. Many fear the negative consequences of childlessness resulting from societal pressure. Couples who cannot conceive often experience emotional and psychological trauma. Sadly, societal norms dictate that the woman is the cause of the infertility,…
What is donor conception? Donor conception is the process of having a baby using donated sperm, eggs or embryos through self-insemination or fertility treatment such as IVF. Sometimes it involves surrogacy, too. Donor conception involves a donor (the person donating sperm, eggs or an embryo) and recipient parent(s) who receive the donation. A child born…
Their relationship may have officially come to an end in 2014, but Sofia Vergara and her ex-fiancé Nick Loeb are still locked in a legal battle over the custody rights to their frozen embryos. On January 27, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal in Louisiana denied Loeb’s appeal, upholding the prior ruling that his lawsuit seeking to obtain custody…
The world is ill-prepared for the global crash in children being born which is set to have a “jaw-dropping” impact on societies, say researchers. Falling fertility rates mean nearly every country could have shrinking populations by the end of the century. And 23 nations – including Spain and Japan – are expected to see their…
Infertile couples can rack up thousands in debt to pay for IVF. But new money-saving deals may not be the solution they seem to be When Helen Brackley and her husband, Paul, decided to start a family, they didn’t expect that their efforts to get pregnant would turn their lives – and their finances –…
A newborn in Israel shocked doctors with a rare case of fetus-in-fetu, a congenital anomaly that occurs in about every 1 in 500,000 births The Times of Israel reports that a baby girl was born with an embryo inside her stomach in a case of fetus-in-fetu, a congenital anomaly that occurs in about every 1 in…
Why are we so afraid to talk about male factor infertility? It’s something my husband, Brian Mazza, and I had to face while trying to start our family. After six months of trying to get pregnant, my husband learned he had issues with his sperm that would require us to undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF)…
Medias and William, a young couple in rural Uganda, are trying to have a baby—to no avail. They’ve been together a long time, and their options are becoming limited. “People say, ‘She’s not a woman. She doesn’t have a child,’” Medias says in Paul Szynol’s short documentary, premiering on The Atlantic today. “I try to avoid people…
When Molly Gibson was born in October of this year, it was 27 years in the making. Her embryo was frozen in October 1992, and stayed that way until February 2020, when Tina and Ben Gibson of Tennessee adopted it. Molly is believed to have set a new record for the longest-frozen embryo to have…
