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Archive for the ‘pregnancy’ Category

June 28th, 2008

One Egg or Two? Oh Sorry, You Only Get One

BBC News reports that IVF clinics in the United Kingdom have been given a mandate to reduce the number of multiple births resulting from IVF treatments from 25% to 10% over the next three years. This means, “increasing the proportion of women who have a single embryo transferred back into their womb,” as opposed […]

By Gabrielle -- 0 comments

June 15th, 2008

Comebacks for Those Phrases You Hate to Hear

You remember the Sticks and Stones series, right? That’s when me and my pal Angelique from Breaking the Mirror put together some of the comments we hate to hear and asked you to comment on them, which many of you did. Thanks!
For those of you who were left speechless, or at least at a loss […]

By Gabrielle -- 1 comment

June 11th, 2008

Celebrity Week Continues…

Just a few days in, and I am ready for Celebrity Week to be over. I click on the latest celebrity stories as much as the next person; I thought this would be easy. But lists of who did what to get a you-know-what (or two) have already been done. And I hate being late […]

By Gabrielle -- 2 comments

June 10th, 2008

Breaking News: A Famous Woman Wants to Have a Baby

Wow. That’s not really a headline, is it?
Replace “famous woman” with “Naomi Campbell” and all of a sudden, the tongues are wagging, the rags are raggin’. This seems to be the biggest celebrity/fertility news today. According to numerous. online. sources. Naomi has undergone some surgery to “improve her odds of being a mum.” No additional […]

By Gabrielle -- 4 comments

June 8th, 2008

“Celebrity Week” at the Health & Wellness Channel Begins Tomorrow

Who doesn’t peruse the People Magazine while waiting in line at the grocery checkout? Who doesn’t pick up an Us Magazine or its ilk when waiting to be called at the dentist? Even if you don’t subscribe, you still sneak some peeks at what so and so is doing or who you know who is […]

By Gabrielle -- 1 comment

June 6th, 2008

Summer Reading - Some Fertile Words

I confess. I have a stack of summer reading to do and I have been avoiding all of the titles that are fertility-related. Because I just haven’t been ready to focus on my own fertility until we got some things out of the way first.
But now I am ready to crack them open again. Start […]

By Gabrielle -- 4 comments

May 30th, 2008

Freebie Friday: And the Winner Is….

Christina Wright! Congratulations!
Using a very, very scientific and proven method of selecting the winner, you have been chosen as the lucky recipient of the Pregnancy and Ovulation Test Strip Value Pack #3 from www.early-pregnancy-tests.com! Yay! Now you can pee away!The value pack includes 50 ovulation tester strips and 15 pregnancy tester strips - a $55 […]

By Gabrielle -- 0 comments

May 29th, 2008

Should Sex Education Include Lessons on Infertility?

Most of the time education in middle school, if you are lucky enough to have sex education, focuses on NOT getting pregnant. Rarely does it broach the subject of infertility. Unless, of course, a certain woman’s infertility or secondary infertility quite possibly changes the course of history.
An article in yesterday’s Guardian thinks that should change.
Back […]

By Gabrielle -- 13 comments

May 25th, 2008

Fertility News Around the Health & Wellness Channel

I am taking this gorgeous long weekend to replant some herbs and plants and enjoy fertility of a different kind. But before I head into the sun, I want to share some news around the b5media Health & Wellness channel that might interest you:
1.) Elaine at Genetics and Health reports about a new study which […]

By Gabrielle -- 2 comments

May 23rd, 2008

Freebie Friday - Win a Pregnancy and Ovulation Test Strip Value Pack

Pee! Pee! Pee! (Sorry about that Beavis moment) But for some reason, us ladies trying to make babies without no drama love peeing on sticks. We can’t help it. We give the act itself(sometimes) affectionate nicknames. Some of us (I won’t mention names) even have collections of those sticks that deemed us preggers, or not […]

By Gabrielle -- 17 comments