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Pregnancy Wishes & Ivf Dreams: A Story & Lessons about Life, Love & Infertility $19.81 Once upon a time, equipped with a solid marriage, driven careers, and a recently finished basement, my husband and I were ready to start a family. Like many 30-something couples, we thought it would be easy. Unfortunately, after nearly 18 months of doing things "the old fashioned way," my husband was diagnosed with a latent birth defect. It rendered us virtually infertile, not to mention devastated and confused. The remarkable thing about confusion is that it can spur knowledge and strength. Infertility did just that for us. We moved forward to try to have a child with the help of science and technology. Before we could blink, we were in the midst of monumental efforts to finance our baby-making venture, ordering medications on the Internet, and undergoing multiple, sometimes risky, and invasive, procedures. We endured it all for a single chance to have a child of our own. Pregnancy Wishes & IVF Dreams: A Story & Lessons About Life, Love, & Infertility is a compelling and insightful look at one couple’s struggle with male factor infertility and everything that goes with it. From failed attempts at conception, batteries of fertility tests, and a devastating diagnosis, to IVF/ICSI, other treatments, and ultimately the birth of fraternal twin daughters, Pregnancy Wishes & IVF Dreams offers readers a sense of shared experience through a real-time, personal story. The book also provides first-hand insights, guidance, and quotes covering a range of universal issues including dealing with jealousy, great expectations, doctors, risk, finances, and family. Finally, Pregnancy Wishes comes full circle, leaving readers with twelve, invaluable lessons-learned about life, love, infertility, and numerous questions, and challenges in between. Like an understanding friend, Pregnancy Wishes & IVF Dreams will leave you feelings less alone, and more empowered as you cope with infertility.

Pilates and Pregnancy: A Workbook for Before, During and After Pregnancy [With DVD] $20.7 From the creator of the award-winning Prenatal and Post-natal Pilates DVD comes Pilates and Pregnancy. Unlike other pregnancy exercise books, Sarah Picot’s Pilates and Pregnancy workbook is interactive and combines an exercise workbook with a pregnancy journal. Write a letter to your unborn baby, keep track of prenatal test results, read fun facts about your pregnancy all while staying toned, preparing your body for labor and getting your figure back faster after delivery.

IVF & Ever After: The Emotional Needs of Families $27.77 A groundbreaking work, IVF and Ever After explores in-vitro fertilisation, the impact the treatment has on families and relationships, and how to manage the stress it causes. Author Nichola Bedos explains the critical skills needed to cope with the emotional highs and lows of IVF, the joys of achieving the miracle of life and the long-term challenges of establishing a healthy, functioning family. Using real-life stores and the latest international research, she brings together the most up-to-date information for parents. IVF and Ever After moves beyond the here and now’ to look at the hard issues involved in IVF, such as telling a child about IVF conception, what to do with spare frozen embryos, and the implications of legislation about surrogacy. Couples thinking about IVF treatment, those undergoing treatment and IVF parents who are experiencing emotional lows’ without knowing why will find this an invaluable guide, as will health professionals who work with IVF families.

Canine Pregnancy Test Kit (5 tests) $125.95 Rapid immunomigration test for detection of the hormone relaxin in canine blood. Can be used at 22 days gestation or after. A small blood sample must be obtained from the dog. 5 tests in each kit. * Early detection of planned or unplanned pregnancy. * Detection of pregnancy before or after abortion treatment. * Early detection of false pregnancy. * Diagnose fetal resorption or spontaneous abortion. * No refrigeration required. About the product: The Witness Relaxin kit is intended to determine pregnancy in the bitch, as well as to distinguish between pseudopregancy and gestation. The kit measures relaxin levels in plasma and serum samples. The presence of significant amounts of this hormone is a reliable indicator of pregancy. Relaxin can be detected in biological samples soon after implantation of the fertilized egg, which occurs about 22-27 days after mating (26-31 days post-LH surge).

WITNESS RELAXIN [Canine / Feline Pregnancy Test] $132.22 Relaxin can be detected in biological samples soon after implantation of the fertilized egg, which occurs 20-31 days post-LH surge, or approximately 16-33 days post-mating. ? Early detection of planned or unplanned pregnancy ? Detection of pregnancy befor

The Pregnancy Project $17.11 Growing up, Gaby Rodriguez was told more than once that she would end up a teen mom. After all, her mother had been a teen mom, and her older sisters had as well. Gaby had ambitions that didn’t include becoming a young mother. But she wondered: how she would be perceived if she "lived down" to others expectations about the path her life would take? This question is what sparked Gaby’s school project: fake her own pregnancy as a high school senior and see how her friends, family, and community reacts. What she learned changed her life forever. In THE PREGNANCY TEST, Gaby shares her experience growing up in the shadow of low expectations, reveals how she was able to fake her own pregnancy, and reveals all that she learned from the experience.

First Response Rapid Result Pregnancy Test – Twin Pack $8.29 Pregnancy test – rapid result. Rapid results in 1 minute. Over 99% accurate (99% accurate at detecting typical hormone levels. Note that hormone levels vary) from the day of your expected period. Pregnant? How long can you bear the question? There’s pregnancy test designed to tell you faster as soon as you miss your period. First Response Rapid Result Pregnancy Test is so sensitive it can tell you just 1 minute after you test. Now the most anxious questions you may ever face can be resolved as soon as possible. This kit contains 2 First Response Rapid Result Pregnancy Test sticks and instructions (in English and Spanish).

Pregnancy $10.46 The most up-to-date, comprehensive pregnancy guide on the market, delivering an unforgettable visual journey of developing life. Week-by-week pregnancy format is easy-to-follow, enjoyable to read, and follows the standard development schedule used by the OB/GYN profession. Detailed descriptions and eight pages of amazing full-color in-utero photographs guide expectant parents through a visual journey of the monthly changes of their growing baby. The only pregnancy book on the market authored by a leading OB/GYN who is a doctor, an academic, and a mother. Straightforward, comforting professional advice on the topics that are most important to expectant parents: having a healthy pregnancy, real-life labor, preparing for life as a family (both emotionally and financially), and juggling a career and motherhood. Exclusive interactive due-date wheel makes it easy to determine conception date, week of pregnancy, and delivery date. Special sections on labor and delivery, feeding options, and the first 12 weeks after baby’s birth. Important checklists, including one for each prenatal check-up help the expectant mother prepare for and make the most out of each session with her doctor.

The Pregnancy Test $3.95 Ordinarily, I’m a fan of pink–lovely color, does smashing things for the complexion. But not when it’s the bright, glaring stripe staring back at me on the pregnancy test. Then, pink is the color of major oops, of morning sickness, of boyfriends who seemed decent but now are part of some Jerk Witness Protection Program. Still, I’ve got a few things going for me–bitter humor, a divine right to eat till I’m the size of Marlon Brando, and good friends who’ve managed to get me a job interview with one Damien Sharpton: in need of a personal assistant, and some say, a good, swift kick in the arse. If you want to make a lasting impression, by all means, toss your cookies in your future boss’s wastebasket, which is located directly between his excruciatingly sexy legs. Apparently, Mr. Gorgeous-But-Unbearably-Anti-Social must like personal assistants who violate his trash can, because I got the job. And if I can avoid him via text messaging for the next seven months of health insurance, everything will be just fine. Except that he’s just asked–no, insisted–that I go with him on a business trip to the Caribbean. Gulp, Ordinarily, this would be cause for celebration. Ordinarily, I’d shave my legs, pack my bikini, revel in day-glo drinks and my seething lust for Mr. Swarthy-And-Secretive. But there’s nothing ordinary about this situation…which means it could be absolutely extraordinary.

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What is IVF Treatment

Ready to start a family and find yourself not conceiving as quickly, or naturally as you had hoped – you’re not alone one in six couples of reproductive age need assistance to start a family. Assisted conception nowadays provides the highest possible chance of starting a family as the success of ivf treatment has overtaken natural conception. So what is IVF treatment?

Put simply IVF fertility treatment (in vitro fertilization) is a procedure where an egg and sperm are joined together outside the body in a specialized laboratory. The fertilized egg, embryo, is allowed to grow in a protected environment for a few days before being transferred into the woman’s uterus.

What is IVF Treatment?
During In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF), mature eggs are collected from the woman’s ovary after the ovaries have been artificially stimulated to increase the number of eggs produced. The eggs are then placed with the sperm in a laboratory. Fertilisation takes place without further intervention. After the resulting embryos have developed for 2 – 5 days in the laboratory, one or two are transferred to the woman’s uterus.
Today embryos are commonly grown in the laboratory until Day 5, known as the Blastocyst stage.  There is strong evidence both internationally and within Australia that embryos grown to this stage are more likely to implant into a woman’s uterus once a fresh transfer takes place.

What is the IVF treatment process?
The IVF treatment process usually begins with a referral from a General Practitioner to a fertility specialist. Your fertility specialist will take a medical history of both the male and female, physical examination, blood tests for her and a semen analysis for him. Depending on the results, your age and medical history your doctor will recommend the most appropriate form of assisted conception and usually he or a nurse will then provide a detailed orientation to answer all the usual questions: What is IVF treatment going to involve? What are the IVF treatment side effects? What are the IVF treatment success rates? What is the IVF treatment cycle support available? What is the IVF treatment cost? What is the IVF treatment process?

What is the IVF treatment cycle?
Typically an IVF treatment cycle takes about 5- 6 weeks. Blood tests usually indicate the right time to start the IVF treatment cycle, which involves giving yourself Follicle Stimulating Hormone medication to encourage greater egg production by your ovaries than what occurs in a normal menstrual cycle.

Blood and ultrasound monitoring will tell us when you have an optimum number and size of follicles (which contain the eggs) then we will plan your egg collection. You will have a trigger injection of HCG (human chorionic gonatrophin) in the evening and the operation for egg collection will occur 36 to 38 hours later.

Egg collection in an IVF treatment cycle is undertaken in day hospital under a light general anaesthetic. On the morning of your egg collection your partner will need to provide a fresh semen (sperm) sample so we can immediately fertilise your eggs after collection.

Collected eggs are taken to the laboratory and placed in culture medium in preparation of fertilisation later that day. In the IVF treatment process, prepared sperm and eggs are placed together in a dish where fertilisation occurs. Sometimes an individual sperm is selected by a highly experienced embryologist, and, under very delicate microscopic control, the egg is injected with this single sperm.

The embryos are then allowed to develop in individual incubators at 37 degrees (mimicking the temperature of the human body) for about 5 days. Embryo transfer is often the most emotional part of the IVF treatment cycle albeit a simple procedure performed in a day hospital about five days after the egg collection. The embryos are transferred into the uterus through a very fine catheter passed through the cervix, a procedure similar to a pap smear.

The nurses will organise an appointment for you to have a blood pregnancy test two weeks after the embryo transfer, whether your period has commenced or not, as occasionally women can have a period but still be pregnant. The only reliable pregnancy test is a blood test. If the pregnancy test is positive, we will arrange an ultrasound scan approximately three weeks later and that is the end of your IVF infertility treatment process.

What is the IVF treatment cost?
In Australia we are fortunate that the Federal Government through its medicare and safety net program supports people needing IVF treatment with considerable rebates. Many clinics have IVF treatment process payment plans that time payment as close to egg collection as possible to minimize the length of time patients are out of pocket for their IVF treatment cost.

Most infertility can be treated quickly and successfully with the help of IVF treatment. Don’t wait more than 6 months if you are over 35 or 12 months if you are under, to seek help to conceive.

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People having challenges conceiving naturally may begin asking what is ivf fertility treatment? To find out everything you need to know about IVF and the ivf cycle please visit www.ivf.com.au