Fertility Cares Blog

Author: Danielle Vitiello, Ph.D., M.D.

Frozen Embryo Transfer
One Healthy Child At a Time
The mantra “one healthy child at a time” echoes in our actions and our words. Dissolving are the days of generating as many embryos as are feasibly in an IVF…
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Luteal Phase Deficiency | Missing Piece| Unexplained Infertility
Luteal Phase Deficiency
Countless hours, blogs and forums have been dedicated to infertility and the potential source as a luteal phase deficiency.  Luteal phase deficiency (LPD), or a lack of progesterone has been…
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Egg Freezing for Young Women
The Oocyte is Type A; The Uterus is Not
Millennial women, you have the opportunity to write the narrative on your fertility. Demographics have certainly changed.  Degrees in hand, working environment firmly established, nest egg cultivated, is it now…
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Women Who Smoke Take Longer to Conceive
Women Who Smoke
Women who smoke experience a one year’s delay to conception.  This delay can be greater with more cigarettes smoked daily and for a longer duration of time.  Women who smoke…
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Environmental Effects on Your Fertility
How the Environment May Affect Fertility
The causes of infertility and our ability to both treat and to overcome them have change over the past two decades.  Optimization of medications afforded and laboratory equipment, experience and…
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vitamin d and fertility sunblock
Can Sunblock Possibly Block Fertility?
The scientific and lay press have centered much deserved focus lately on how our environment plays an integral part of our health.  These concerns certainly are valid.  Chemicals and their…
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