Blog Posts in December, 2017

  • Coping with Infertility During the Holiday Season

    While the holiday season is a time for family and togetherness, it is also a time filled with all things relating to children—holiday cards and social media posts featuring families and new babies, TV commercials and other advertisements depicting children and babies and the magic and spirit of the season. The desire for a child is a strong, preoccupying need even during the usual ...

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  • "It Only Takes One Good Egg" (and Sperm)

    Sometimes it seems simple enough. One sperm fertilizes one egg and nine months later a baby is born. Yet, as we know, so many more factors contribute to the birth of this baby and as much as fertility and reproductive science have discovered and achieved, there is still an element of uncertainty, hope and chance within the process of producing a new life. One way the field of reproductive ...

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  • The Importance of Male Reproductive Health

    It takes two to make a baby. Woman and man. Egg and sperm. Yet most of the responsibility for conceiving seems to fall on women’s shoulders, largely because research into fertility has focused predominantly on the female reproductive system, causing women to rightly, and with good cause, learn about egg quantity and quality, the effect of age on one’s egg count, overall reproductive ...

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  • A DOR/POI Patient is Pregnant: A Success Story Involving the Retrieval of Only Two Eggs

    A 36-year old patient from out of state contacted us in order to consult on her particular infertility case. She’d had a long history of irregular periods, and her AMH was 0.022 indicating she was both DOR (Diminished Ovarian Reserve) and POI (Primary Ovarian Insufficiency). She’d worked with her local specialist and attempted IUI, but the sperm used were immotile, lacking in the ...

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  • Make Coffee, Have a Baby

    Starbucks is no longer just your neighborhood coffee store, of the coffee shop that seems to be taking over the neighborhood, it’s now the coffee shop that is helping to populate that very neighborhood. In a surprising revelation, or perhaps not so surprising, Starbucks unlike some other corporations in America, provides health insurance coverage for IVF procedures. But the company does not ...

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  • Genetic Editing and the Human Embryo

    The field of genetic engineering made a big announcement last week. Scientists at the Oregon Health and Science University were able to successfully edit genes of a human embryo. This a major scientific advancement and a way to potentially ward off disease, particularly chronic genetic diseases like early-on set Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, Tay-Sachs, sickle cell anemia or cystic ...

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  • Synthetics and Sperm

    A few blog posts back, we focused on the need for men to be aware of their sperm count and overall fertility health. Knowing that fertility takes two, it is just as important for men to have quality sperm and a high sperm count as it is for women to have a plentiful number of eggs that are high quality. In short, it’s not just about the health of the eggs or solely a woman’s issue, as ...

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  • I.V.G. - A New Advance in Reproductive Research

    New stem cell research advances are presenting some headlines that are sci-fi worthy. Researchers from Kyusha University in Japan have succeeded in taking the skin stem cells from mice, performing some complicated bio-engineering and creating reproductive cells forming eggs and sperm. As the New York Times reported this can make for some wild speculations about what the future of human ...

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  • Infertility Support Group: A Mind-Body Approach for the San Diego Community

    Infertility Support Group: A Mind-Body Approach for the San Diego Community Tuesdays, starting June 13th Beginning Tuesday evenings, starting June 13th the new Infertility Support Group, led by social worker Rachel Rabinor (LCSW) and naturopathic Dr. Elizabeth Winter (ND), will begin its next six-week session. Started as a way to fill a void in the San Diego community by offering women struggling ...

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  • Infertility Awareness Week and the San Diego Walk for Hope

    Last month during Infertility Awareness Week, several leading newspapers ran headlines noting that one in eight couples struggled with infertility. That’s 15 percent of the couples in the U.S. While this may not be news to couples who have already faced or are facing infertility, raising awareness and educating the wider public is a positive step toward helping these couples and those ...

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  • Evatar: A New and Exciting Reproductive Health Model

    Evatar is a new exciting technological advance that has just been added to the field of reproductive health. It’s a complete, robotic replica of the female reproductive system. The team of researchers from Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago and Draper Laboratory developed Evatar and it comes equipped with a complete uterus, ovaries and a menstrual cycle. Made from ...

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  • Quantity and Quality for Sperm Too

    While preoccupation and focus on fertility may seem a predominantly female concern, it is important to note that 50% of infertility worldwide is also a result of male fertility issues. Men need to pay just as much attention to fertility as women do. After all, it does take two in order to make a baby, or at least an egg from a woman and a sperm from a man. As a way to bring awareness to, and ...

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  • IVF and Springing Forward

    As we spring forward into Daylight Savings Time in Southern California, we’d like to bring your attention to a new study regarding fertility and the time change. Pushing the clock an hour forwards or backwards may not seem like enough to make a huge difference in matters of IVF, but the change does alter our circadian rhythms and how we respond physiologically to changes in daylight and the ...

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  • Complicated IVF Cases and Our Success Stories

    At Hanabusa IVF we are committed to taking on all forms of infertility, even the most challenging cases. Some of our recent patients have come to us with previous failed IVF and IUI attempts and others have Diminished Ovarian Reserve (DOR), high FSH or Premature Ovarian Failure (POF). Despite these complications, Hanabusa IVF is able to treat each patient. Below, we’ve compiled some of our ...

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  • Quality over Quantity When Implanting Embryos

    New research shows that implanting two embryos cuts the chances for a successful pregnancy by a quarter, particularly if one embryo is in a poorer state of health than the other. The body, instead of focusing on the healthy embryo, will concentrate on the less viable embryo and can then reject a pregnancy altogether. Doctors involved in the research study conclude that if a “poor quality ...

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