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3 Ways to Cope with Anxiety Through Your Treatment Cycle

3 Ways to Cope with Anxiety Through Your Treatment Cycle

When family building doesn’t go to plan, it can be one of the most stressful medical and emotional challenges that people experience. From decision making fatigue to the sea of uncertainty around every corner, the challenges can feel endless. I have yet to meet someone going through fertility treatments who doesn’t experience a significant level of anxiety alongside these challenges....

Fertility Planning
Your Guide to Navigating the Cost of Fertility Treatment

Your Guide to Navigating the Cost of Fertility Treatment

If you are actively preparing to start treatment (or just starting to explore your options!), our friends at Sunfish out together this primer on fertility care costs and the financial pathways available to help you navigate them.

Fertility Treatment
Follicle Size, Egg Yield, and What the Numbers Actually Mean

Follicle Size, Egg Yield, and What the Numbers Actually Mean

You're sitting in the waiting room after your scan, trying to do mental math with the numbers your nurse just mentioned. Eight follicles. No wait — ten. But some are only 12mm. Does that count? Will they all have eggs?  If any of that sounds familiar, this post is for you. The gap between follicle count and actual egg yield...

(In)fertility and the Winter Holidays

(In)fertility and the Winter Holidays

Leyla and Tara Lipinski are doing a deep dive on self care during the holiday season. Hot tip: it's okay to be a little selfish! Whether that means making up an excuse to skip a social gathering, taking a break from the fertility-friendly food regimine, or giving yourself the gift of injection comfort – we've got you 💛 

Taking a break (from fertility treatment, from TTC, or from your emails!)

Taking a break (from fertility treatment, from TTC, or from your emails!)

Taking a break from TTC is not the same as quitting or giving up. In fact, it can be one of the healthiest decisions you make in your fertility journey. And if you ever need to take a break from Dandi's community group or email newsletter, we can understand that as well. In fact, you may have gotten to this...

Fertility Treatment Fertility Planning
4 Ways To Maximize FSA/HSA Savings on Fertility Treatment

4 Ways To Maximize FSA/HSA Savings on Fertility Treatment

For many people, fertility treatment is one of the biggest unexpected expenses they’ll ever face. Between diagnostic testing, medications, monitoring, procedures, and travel, it adds up fast. And unfortunately, insurance coverage often falls far short of what’s needed. So if you’re looking for a simple way to save money without changing your treatment plan, you’re not alone.  You’ve probably heard...

Grief Mental Health
Pregnancy After Miscarriage or Loss

Pregnancy After Miscarriage or Loss

Leyla Bilali, BSN, RN

Whether it’s your first miscarriage/pregnancy loss, or your second, third, fourth, etc. – yes, sadly that happens more often than you’d think – it makes any pregnancy after feel like a rollercoaster. Once you’ve gone through something that traumatic it’s hard to go back to where you started and have the benefit of ignorance is bliss – the innocence, excitement...

Fertility Treatment Fertility Planning
Lifestyle Tips to Improve Your Fertility, Straight From a Fertility Doctor

Lifestyle Tips to Improve Your Fertility, Straight From a Fertility Doctor

Sasha Hakman, MD

Dr. Sasha Hakman of HRC Fertility in Beverly Hills explains how lifestyle factors, including exercise, diet, endocrine disruptors and sleep, can affect fertility and IVF success rates.

Fertility Planning
Semen Analysis & Male Fertility Testing: Fertility MD Explains

Semen Analysis & Male Fertility Testing: Fertility MD Explains

Brian Levine, MD

When we talk about infertility and reproductive health, much of the pressure falls on the female partner. But the truth is that 30 percent of infertility is male factor, meaning the male partner has an issue with his sperm that’s making spontaneous conception, or pregnancy without medical treatment, more difficult or impossible. As with female fertility, male fertility can be...

Fertility Planning
Fertility Tests for Women: How, When, and What's Normal

Fertility Tests for Women: How, When, and What's Normal

Brian Levine, MD

Most women at their yearly OB/GYN appointment discuss pap smears, contraception management and general health issues, but unfortunately, it’s much less common to talk to your doctor about your reproductive health. Your doctor can test your fertility relatively easily, and this testing can and should be done before you try to get pregnant. Knowing your reproductive potential can inform your...

Fertility Planning
What Side Effects Can You Expect from Egg Freezing?

What Side Effects Can You Expect from Egg Freezing?

Brandis Montez, AGACNP-BC, FNP-BC

Curious about the potential side effects of egg freezing? Fertility nurse Brandis shares insights from her personal and professional egg freezing experience.

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What Is AMH? Everything To Know About AMH for Fertility

What Is AMH? Everything To Know About AMH for Fertility

David E. Reichman, MD

Dr. David Reichman of Weill Cornell explains Anti-Müllerian Hormone, or AMH, including testing, normal AMH values by age, how AMH affects IVF success and more.