Welcome to the blog of the IVF Doctor! My posts are devoted to building an ongoing series of commentaries to illuminate the concepts, methods, and treatments related to the fertility procedure, in vitro fertilization.

In committing to keeping this record. I hope to make this potentially life-altering procedure accessible to lay readers by providing intelligible and understandable answers to the most prevalent questions and concerns that have been voiced by my patients over now 25-plus...

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While surfing the Internet, I found the following article and I wanted to share it with the readers of my blog.

THURSDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News)
Although it's a well known fact that heavy smoking can hurt your chances of concieving, I believe that it never hurts to reiterate good information. If you thought all the risks of cigarette smoking were already known, think again. New research finds that heavy smoking impairs women's fertility by reducing the odds that a fetus...

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Daily Mail
David Wilkes
16th January 2008

She had given up hope of ever having a baby. Trudi Siviter had only half an ovary - and even that was not working properly. After cancer of the cervix as a teenager, two ectopic pregnancies and three failed attempts at IVF, Mrs Siviter and her husband thought it was impossible for her to have children.

Doctors agreed, and she was ready to have a hysterectomy. But three months before she was due to have the procedure,...

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From The Times
Ruth Deech

This proposal to change IVF law is misconceived. Doesn't a child need a father? Since in vitro fertilisation was first regulated in 1990 doctors have been required to consider the welfare of the baby, including “the need of that child for a father”. This is one of the few ethical principles in IVF law and has served as a reminder that the welfare of the child is more important than the wishes of the would-be parents.

But no longer,...

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