Trying to Conceive

    How many times has someone told you that the amount of sleep you get each night has an impact on your overall health? Whoever has told you this isn’t wrong – sleep has a [...]

For many of my patients, pursuing fertility treatment is a decision that has been a long time coming. It’s another chance to make their dream of having a family become a reality. I am extremely [...]

For women trying to get pregnant, nothing is more tempting than running to the store and buying a pregnancy test the moment you start experiencing the earliest signs of pregnancy. Even if you [...]

Image courtesy of Photokanok / FreeDigitalPhotos.net As a reproductive endocrinologist and fertility specialist in NJ, I talk about and actually freeze eggs every week. For many years I helped to [...]

Can your weight affect your fertility?  The short answer is YES.  Fat is an endocrine organ and if you have too much of it, or too little, it can affect your reproductive function in many [...]

This morning, I was listening to NPR while driving to work and was really moved by a story about Africa’s Yoga Project – helping people in dire circumstances find hope and some happiness through [...]

A small study published in the February 27, 2013 medical journal Archives of Disease in Childhood – Fetal and Neonatal Edition raises concerns about the effects of maternal excess weight upon the [...]

Are you trying to conceive? Have you tried sex? Just saying… The idea that you have to try to conceive is a myth and a burden. Precise timing of intercourse at the time of ovulation is not [...]

The big news is that up until October 2012, Egg Freezing was considered experimental by Those in the Know.  Those in the Know being the ASRM – the American Society for Reproductive Medicine [...]