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Increasing Male Fertility

About one quarter of infertile couples have trouble conceiving due to issues with male fertility, most often a low sperm count. If male factor infertility is suspected, your doctor will want to perform a semen analysis. This test looks at both the number and the quality of the sperm. Many doctors start with this test, since diagnosing male factor infertility is easier than female infertility and the doctor may want to rule it out before starting a battery of tests on the woman. A diagnosis of male factor infertility is difficult, but it isn’t necessarily the end of the road … Continue reading →

Surprise Babies: Heather’s Story

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This month I’m talking about surprise babies. I’ve been looking forward to sharing with you the story of one special little girl named Lillian Rose, who surprised her parents and their family with her miraculous debut. Her story begins long before she was born in 2002, when Heather and Jeremy met while working together at a local tool store. The high school sweethearts started dating two years later. On August 6, 2006, they tied the knot. About three months after they got married, they decided to start a family, but it wasn’t long before Heather realized things weren’t going to … Continue reading →

Quickly Becoming Obsolete – Part 3

I am still talking about things that were once popular, but are now vanishing: Handwritten Letters Oh, I hate this. What is more romantic than a handwritten love letter? I mean, an email just doesn’t do it, does it? Yet it is estimated that in 2006, 183 billion emails were sent – each day! Add in all the cell phones and all the text messaging and who has time to actually sit down and write a letter? Wild Horses In the early 1900s, there were approximately two million wild horses roaming the U.S. Now, the National Geographic News estimates that … Continue reading →

Home Sperm Count Tests

Technology has advanced to the point that you can now purchase kits to test for sperm count and motility at home. This is a great thing for men who are shy about going into the clinic for the testing. Although, if you go into infertility treatment, the doctor will want to perform a test in the office anyway. For some couples, there is still an advantage. The test can give you advanced notice of a possible problem. If the test comes back normal, it can give you some peace of mind. In either case, the results can help you determine … Continue reading →

Study About Beef and Sperm Count

The title of this blog may be a bit misleading. No, the beef you serve your husband for dinner won’t lower his sperm count. However, if his mother ate beef every night, it may be a cause of his lower than normal sperm count. A new study shows that women who eat a lot of beef during their pregnancies can have sons with a lower sperm count. The study was conducted by the Center for Reproductive Epidemiology at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. The study looked at about 400 men born between 1949 and 1983. … Continue reading →

Vasectomy Reversal

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For many years, a vasectomy was truly a permanent decision. Once done, it could not be undone. When vasectomy reversal procedures were first introduced, they were not very effective. A small percentage could be undone, but most remained permanent. Now the vast majority of vasectomies can be reversed. There are many reasons for wanting a vasectomy reversed. The most common reasons are the loss of a child or remarriage. A man and his ex wife may have made the decision to prevent future pregnancies. If the couple divorces and the man remarries, his new wife may feel differently about having … Continue reading →

Why Does My Body Need Vitamin B12?

Vitamin B12 is a little bit different from other vitamins. If you don’t have a certain substance in your digestive system, you can’t absorb vitamin B12! Your stomach produces a substance called intrinsic factor. This substance has to be in the intestinal tract in pretty large amounts for your body to be able to absorb vitamin B12. If you don’t have intrinsic factor in your digestive tract, you’ll eventually develop a vitamin B12 deficiency called pernicious anemia. Liver is probably the number one source for vitamin B12 — but any and all animal foods contain this vitamin. In fact, people … Continue reading →