At New Hope Fertility Center, we have many women and couples who seek our help after they have experienced a miscarriage.  In some of our more emotionally trying cases, these women have not just had one, but two or even three miscarriages.

The instance of miscarriage is truly devastating for all those involved, which is why our fertility specialists treat these cases with the extra care and attention to individual detail that they deserve.

Under to guidance of New Hope’s experienced team of fertility experts, New Hope has developed protocols specific to each miscarriage patient in order to ease stress and help these individuals with the right combination of hope and expertise.  We have three recent IVF stories to report — that all involve women who experienced miscarriage before coming to our center and were able to get pregnant with our help.

Our first IVF success story comes from Ms. 46, who had a history of one miscarriage when she came to New Hope. After consulting with our doctors, she elected to try our Donor IVF program, and got pregnant immediately following her first donor frozen embryo transfer!

Our second story involves Ms. 33, who came to New Hope after two miscarriages. After completing one Mini-IVF™ cycle she chose to freeze her embryos, since our frozen embryo protocols have high rates of success after transfer. While her first frozen embryo transfer didn’t achieve pregnancy, she got pregnant with her second try!

Our final story of the week is from Ms. 36, also with a history of one miscarriage like Ms. 46.  Upon careful consideration of her personal health history, our fertility specialists, along Ms. 36, elected to try a few timed intercourse cycles that were unfortunately unsuccessful. The next step we decided to take was have Ms. 36 complete a few Mini-IVF™ cycles in order to produce and preserve her fertility until she was ready to try again.  She was ready to try again at age 40, and after her first frozen embryo transfer she got pregnant with an embryo she froze in 2007.  Clearly an emotionally challenging story, we’re so happy to report on this woman’s particular case, which is as real as it gets when it comes to struggling with infertility and miscarriage.

Congrats to all three of our recent IVF success stories!!!

1) 35 y/o secondary infertility due to oligoovulation (irregular ovulation) came to New Hope for her second child.  She was able to get pregnant from a single embryo transfer from Mini-IVF™.  Congratulations on your second pregnancy!

New Hope doctors wanted to take extra precautions to reduce the chance of multiple pregnancy since this patient’s first pregnancy led to the premature birth of her twins (possibly due to conventional IVF protocols), and left her and her babies in the hospital for a good length of time.  By committing to Mini-IVF™ and single embryo transfer protocols, New Hope doctors greatly reduced the risk of this happening again.

2) 39 y/o primary infertility arrived at New Hope also suffering from oligoovulation.  She created several embryos through our Mini-IVF™ protocol and got pregnant with twins from a Natural Cycle frozen embryo transfer.  As with the previous success story, the infertility was due to the inability to ovulate properly, and this patient would have definitely been overstimulated with conventional IVF.  New Hope doctors understood in both aforementioned cases that there was no need for more than a single embryo transfer to reach success since both women had otherwise healthy uterine environments.  Congrats!

3) 39 y/o came to NHFC with a history of primary infertility.  She completed a few Mini-IVF™ cycles with frozen embryo transfers that were unsuccessful.  She had a frozen embryo transfer more recently and came back with a positive pregnancy test.  Congrats!

As many in our online community already know, New Hope Fertility Center and one of its current patients were briefly featured on The Dr. Oz Show.

Friday’s show, which took on the subject of motherhood and age, focused much of the program debating the woman’s biological clock and the risks involved in conventional IVF care.

Indeed, self-awareness and self-education are integral parts of any woman beginning the journey to motherhood.  Through reading, talking to other women, and being open to her doctor (infertility doctor or primary care physician) about reproductive health, a woman can better judge when to start the pregnancy process.  By committing to follicular ultrasounds to test the number of eggs she has left to learning about options like fertility preservation (banking eggs for future use), women can significantly avoid the emotional and physiological stress that comes when she facing age-related fertility issues.

We also agree with both medical guests on the show, Dr. John Jain (a Reproductive Endocrinologist) and Jennifer Lahl (the President at the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network), who emphasized the importance of infertility specialists educating their patients on both the risks associated with older women getting pregnant and the risks associated with conventional IVF protocols, which oftentimes involve hyperstimulating a woman’s ovaries with fertility medication to assist her in producing multiple eggs for use in IVF treatment.

Educating would-be mothers on fertility preservation and emphasizing the fact that as they age it will become harder to get pregnant due to low ovarian reserve are among the most important things a fertility doctor, and any physician for that matter, can do for women wishing to conceive.  While these are important factors in the assisted reproduction debate, it is also important to inform women on other choices out there — holistic, minimally invasive IVF care and egg freezing (fertility preservation), both available here at New Hope Fertility Center.

Mini-IVF™ is our trademarked protocol which is customized to each individual’s body and circumstance, so no two cycles are the same. Because our Mini-IVF™ cycles are tailored, it also allows us to forgo some of the expensive (and, for some, intimidating) shots that were mentioned on the Dr. Oz show.  In addition, we try very hard to make sure that our fertility care is not a cost prohibitive part of anyone’s journey to motherhood and our cycles are also over a few thousand dollars less than the average conventional cycle cost statistic cited on the Dr. Oz show.

We also offer Natural Cycle IVF, which offers women the option to try IVF sans fertility medication.

If you viewed the Dr. Oz show on Friday and have any questions regarding the success of our IVF protocols and the cost of our IVF care, please feel free to reach out with any questions.

And…thanks for tuning in!

1) First, we’d like to congratulate our patient who recently delivered a healthy baby girl!!! This patient was 42 y/o with a high FSH, a history of miscarriages, a ectopic pregnancy, and failed IVF cycles elsewhere. Using New Hope’s miscarriage protocol, she conceived from a blastocyst embryo transfer created from Clomid-only IVF. Congratulations to you and your new family!

2) 25 y/o arrived at New Hope with a history of secondary infertility. She completed 2 Mini-IVF™ cycles for subsequent PGD testing. She recently became pregnant after a frozen embryo transfer. Congrats!

3) 31 y/o came to New Hope with a history of primary infertility. She completed just 1 Mini-IVF™ cycle with a fresh embryo transfer that recently resulted in a positive pregnancy test. Congrats!

4) 38 y/o reached out to New Hope after struggling through a period of secondary infertility. She completed 1 Mini-IVF™ cycle with a frozen embryo transfer and recently got pregnant with twins. Congratulations!

5) 45 y/o came to NHFC with a high FSH. She completed our Natural Cycle IVF protocol and had a single embryo transfer. She recently became pregnant with twins (there is an increased chance of embryo splitting in IVF even after a single embryo transfer). Congrats!

6) 29 y/o arrived at New Hope dealing with male factor infertility. She recently had a positive pregnancy test after Mini-IVF™ and a single embryo transfer, and froze her other embryo to bank until ready for her second child. It should be noted that at New Hope, patients have the same chance of success with frozen embryo transfers as they do with fresh embryo transfers.

7) 39 y/o came to NHFC hoping for a chance at a second baby after coping with secondary infertility caused by tubal issues and a failed IVF attempts elsewhere. While we made the decision to cancel her fresh embryo transfer because of an unfavorable uterine environment, she ultimately conceived from Natural Cycle IVF and and a frozen blastocyst transfer. Congrats!

8) 42 y/o came to New Hope after being deemed a non-responder at other centers. She recently had a positive pregnancy test after a frozen embryo transfer created from Natural Cycle IVF. Congratulations!

If you’ve paid attention to the news lately, you have probably heard about the latest celebrities planning on fertility treatments to achieve pregnancy.  Not only is Khloe Kardashian attempting to get pregnant through IVF, Entertainment News host Guliani Rancic is still considering it after her double mastectomy, and a slew of other celebrities admitted to using fertility treatments to get pregnant, including Jane Seymour and Celine Dion.  And let’s not forget to mention primetime tv, with both Private Practice and Whitney exploring the subject of IVF and fertility preservation through their story lines.

Whatever your source of the latest IVF news may be, the one thing all these stories have in common is infertility.  Infertility, which is defined as an unsuccessful attempt at achieving pregnancy after one year of unprotected sex, affects a range of people.  As with the case of Khloe Kardashian, infertility is not ageist – it can affect women in their twenties as much as women in their forties, and can be caused by everything from PCOS to weight issues to autoimmune disorders (the latter being the case for Elizabeth Hasselback, who suffers from Celiac disease).

Fertility care specialists have been working for over thirty years in an effort to develop the most healthy and cost effective ways to help women achieve their dream of motherhood, no matter what their root cause of infertility may be.  At New Hope Fertility Clinic, our protocols have been developed by pioneers in the fertility field, including New Hope founder Dr. John Zhang, who is credited with the oldest in vitro pregnancy to date.  New Hope’s unique protocols provide women of all backgrounds (miscarriages, failed IVF cycles, high FSH levels) a chance to get pregnant.  By customizing our fertility treatment plans for each individual patient based on their needs and fertility background, New Hope is able to keep the health risks and high costs associated with conventional IVF treatments low through our “One Good Egg” policy and and our practice of single embryo transfers.

We wish all the celebrities on the IVF path success (and others on their fertility journey as well).

What other celebrity infertility stories have you heard?