1) 39 y/o came to New Hope with a history of secondary infertility.
She completed a Mini-IVF™ cycle and had a day-5 frozen single embryo transfer and recently came back with a positive pregnancy test.  Congratulations!

2) 40 y/o with a history of secondary infertility came back with a positive pregnancy test after a day-5 single embryo transfer from a Natural IVF cycle.  Congrats!

3) 38 y/o with a history of primary infertility and failed IUI cycles at other clinics recently had a positive pregnancy test after a Mini-IVF™ cycle and a day-5 frozen single embryo transfer!  Congratulations!

Many of you may have read or heard about the feature story, Parents of a Certain Age, that appeared in the latest New York Magazine and which can also be found online.  We read the article as well and were very interested to read about the narratives described in it.  While we won’t take your time summarizing the article, we did want to comment on some of the content.

One aspect of Parents of a Certain Age that is worth addressing is its focus on older women who hope to be parents.  Indeed, Parents of a Certain Age highlights how women around the world are putting off having their first child until much later in life compared to earlier generations. Similarly, the number of older women in their 40s and early 50s having the urge to become mothers is much higher.  For some of these women, IVF and donor programs may not be an option, as some clinics have restrictions on age.  At New Hope Fertility Center, we know that each individual and their physiology is unique, which is why we do not have firm restrictions based on age.  Instead, the doctors and staff at New Hope look at your current medical condition to assess whether or not you may be able to have a successful pregnancy and let you make the decision from there.

As a matter of fact, just like the fertility center mentioned in Parents of a Certain Age, New Hope Fertility supports women in their journey towards motherhood in every way possible, and runs a donor program that stands to challenge any other donor program worldwide — not only in terms of the number of donors and the quality of physicians, but in terms of the support and care that goes hand in hand with a comfortable, joyful experience.

Additionally, we have written many times over about New Hope Fertility Center’s use of the most modern freezing technology, vitrification, to freeze embryos. This is particularly important for our donor program because, while most donor programs require the donor and the recipient to cycle together, this is not necessary at New Hope — we can thaw the eggs when your body has the most optimal conditions for conceiving.  In addition to having control over the timing of a donor egg implantation, this also means that no medications need to be used to synchronize cycles, which makes our fertility care not only more effective, but gentler on the body.

A recent study in The Journal of the American Medical Association reveals the connection between preterm births and premature death in childhood and adulthood.

According to researchers from Stanford University and Lund University in Sweden, “low gestational age at birth was independently associated with increased mortality in early childhood and young adulthood.”  These observations support the researchers’ call to develop protocols within the healthcare system that will work towards preventing premature births and therefore decrease the stress and costs associated with complications that arise from them.

This particular study also underscores the importance of New Hope Fertility Center’s single embryo transfer (SET) protocols.  Low gestational age and the resulting low birth weights are common complications that arise from multiple pregnancies (see this story, which highlights such issues). When it comes to IVF treatments, they are downsides tha can be easily avoided with the practice of SET.

As this study shows that premature births are correlated with higher chances of disease and premature mortality, it adds to the growing body of research encouraging the practice of SET among fertility care specialists.  It is now understood that multiple births not only have immediate health risks for both mother and child, but potential health risks down the road if multiples are born too early (which they often are).

Please feel free to continue reading more about our low risk protocols.

1) 44 y/o came to New Hope Fertility Center with a history of secondary infertility.  She completed a day-6 donor frozen embryo transfer and recently had a positive pregnancy test.  Congratulations!

2)  40 y/o with a history of failed IVF treatments before coming to New Hope is pregnant for her second time with our Natural Cycle IVF treatment.  She recently became pregnant from a frozen embryo transfer that was vitrified from her first Natural Cycle IVF treatment in 2008.  Congrats on the second addition to your family!

A couple of new IVF success stories to congratulate here at New Hope Fertility Center:

1) 44 y/o came to New Hope with a history of secondary infertility.  She completed one Mini-IVF™ cycle and one frozen embryo transfer with two Day-5 embryos. She recently tested pregnant with twins recently! Congratulations!

2) 43 y/o with a history of secondary infertility came to New Hope Fertility Center in early 2011. She completed a donor frozen embryo transfer and had a positive pregnancy test just last month. Congrats!