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 Jim Palleschi
The timing of the decision to proceed with an infertility evaluation varies from couple to couple. While there are no “rules” regarding the length of time a couple should attempt conception naturally, it is generally accepted that an infertility evaluation should be performed when pregnancy fails to occur after one year of unprotected intercourse. However an evaluation should be performed prior to one year if a known male factor, such as undescended testicles or prior cancer treatment, or female factor, including advanced reproductive age (over 35 years), exists.
www.redwoodmalefertility.com
Redwood Urology Medical Group
500 Doyle Park Drive, Suite #303
Santa Rosa, CA 95405
Telephone: 707-575-1833
Santa Monica Fertility
In natural conception, the fallopian tube provides three functions: it picks up the ovulated egg, it provides an environment in which fertilization can occur and it transports the resulting embryo to the uterus for implantation. In cases where the fallopian tube is not functional or other impediments to fertility are present, the function of the fallopian tube can be replaced by in vitro fertilization (IVF).
IVF is the most technologically advanced and successful form of fertility therapy available. The pregnancy rates associated with IVF are the highest of all fertility treatments across every age bracket. This is because IVF optimizes all of the steps associated with the reproductive process. In a natural cycle, only one egg is ovulated, fertilized and implanted in the uterus. IVF augments these processes by stimulating multiple eggs to grow, fertilizing them directly in the laboratory (in vitro) and placing multiple embryos into the uterus.
www.santamonicafertility.com
Santa Monica Fertility Specialists
2825 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 100
Santa Monica, CA 90404
For reproductive & infertility professionals
Robert Edwards, a Ph.D. physiologist, and Patrick Steptoe, a gynecologist, pioneered IVF in Great Britain during the 1970's. Edwards had spent the 1960's working with bits of human ovaries removed at surgery and had achieved the first fertilization of a human egg outside the body in 1967. During these same years Steptoe was helping to develop the new surgical technique of laparoscopy. By 1971 the two men had met and began to collaborate. Initially they retrieved eggs from the ovaries of volunteers by laparoscopy and focused on improving the timing of egg retrieval and in vitro culture conditions. By the mid seventies they felt ready to attempt pregnancy. Their initial pregnancy was unfortunately a tubal pregnancy (ectopic) in 1976. Then came true success and the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, was born in July 1978.
www.donorivf.com
California North Bay Fertility Medical Associates (CNBFMA)
1111 Sonoma Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95405
E-mail: info@cnbfma.com
Phone: (707) 575-5831
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