Features Related to Infertility & Reproduction

1. Not Quite Ready for This?
   

   By Denise Schipani Someday, the idea of a baby might sound sane. Here's how to protect your fertility so when you're ready, your body is too You've yet to hear a single tick-tock, but lurking beneath your killer abs is a biological clock that will start buzzing eventually--and you can only hit the s

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2. Mothers ... at Last
   

   By Gina Shaw Jody, Carrie, and Jenny look back at how far they've come together − and look forward to a sweet future with their daughters. For the past year, Jody Urbas, 34, Carrie Brainerd, 32, and Jenny Taylor, 28, have shared with REDBOOK readers the most intimate details of their lives as they w

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3. Womb for Rent: Surrogate Mothers in India
   

   By Abigail Haworth Customer service, tech support...these days we outsource everything to India. So why not pregnancy? Here is a report on the growing number of Indian women willing to carry an American child. The midday sun is ferociously hot outside the Akanksha Infertility Clinic, a scuffed concr

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4. The Fertility Diaries: Friends and Mothers
   

   By Gina Shaw 3 women, each trying to build a family, have been waiting on some important — and nerve-racking — developments. Will Jody's latest fertility treatment succeed? Will Carrie's labor go smoothly? Read about their latest challenges and triumphs. In this installment of the "Fertility Diaries

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5. What to Expect During IVF
   

   By Meg Lundstrom Step by step, here's what you'll typically experience while trying to conceive a child with in vitro fertilization. If initial fertility treatments such as fertility drugs or surgery fail and you decide to move forward with IVF, your ob/gyn will refer you to a reproductive endocrino

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6. Fertility Diaries: They Dreamed of Motherhood Together
   

   By Gina Shaw As Jenny, Jody, and Carrie each face their own unique challenges, the friendship that has supported them on the path to becoming moms only grows stronger. For the past several months, REDBOOK has followed the lives of three friends from the Cleveland area on their moving journey through

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7. Coping with Infertility
   

   Ultimately, many couples become enraged over the multiple losses associated with infertility. They are upset by other people's insensitivity, hurt by criticism from their families, tired of treatment, frustrated by limited options, and resentful of their fishbowl existence. They feel the wound of in

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8. The Fertility Diaries: 3 Friends, 3 Paths to Pregnancy
   

   By Gina Shaw This month, Jody copes with the stressful reality of reproductive treatments, Jenny faces her fear about the health of her baby, and a pregnant Carrie learns from her friends' struggles and losses. In the first installment of The Fertility Diaries, we met three friends from the Clevelan

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9. The Fertility Diaries: When a Friend Is Pregnant — and You're Not
   

   By Gina Shaw After sharing the joys of new marriage, three friends looked forward to becoming first-time moms together. But they're learning that the road to parenthood can be more complicated — and more painful — than they'd ever imagined. Here, they share their journey of friendship and hope. Most

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10. New Trends in Infertility Treatment
    

    For one in eight couples in the U.S. plagued with fertility problems, getting pregnant is an elusive -- and frustrating -- dream. But if they seek medical help sooner rather than later, the outlook has never been brighter. Infertility treatments have improved, options have expanded, and doctors are

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