Whether you’re driving or training across country or flying around the world, traveling when you’re in the middle of fertility treatments requires planning and preparation. Start your prep by talking to your expert OB/GYN at Columbia Fertility Associates to find out where you are in your cycle and which medications you’ll need to pack for […]

Life today is busier than ever, with more opportunities (and distractions) than our grandparents ever imagined. So one of the major life events that used to occur relatively early — getting pregnant and having children — increasingly gets pushed back. After all, with all of the advanced fertility options available to both women and men, […]

When your doctor diagnosed you with PCOS, it probably wasn’t the happiest day of your life. Though you were glad to finally find out why you experienced symptoms, such as missed periods and heavy bleeding, knowing that your hormones were out of balance made you wonder if you’d ever be able to conceive a child.PCOS […]

Women who can’t get pregnant because they have too few eggs or other issues, such as poor egg quality or a genetic disease they don’t want to pass on to their offspring, may need to rely on donor eggs to conceive and carry a healthy child. Such women and their partners may have been trying […]

When you and your partner are ready to have a baby, you want to see a “yes” on the pregnancy test as soon as possible. Healthy women who are under 35 should be able to conceive within a year of having regular, unprotected sex. If you’re older and don’t conceive within six months, you may […]

If you’re under 35 and have been trying to have a baby for at least a year, or over 35 and have been trying for at least six months, you’re officially considered to be infertile. Learning that either you, your partner, or both of you may have a reproductive disorder is frustrating and disappointing. You […]

If your ovulation is irregular and you want to have a baby, your doctor may recommend that you take clomiphene citrate, an oral medication more commonly known by its original brand name, Clomid. Clomid is a nonsteroidal ovulatory stimulant that helps you produce healthy eggs. At Columbia Fertility Associates — with offices in Washington, DC; […]

Painful periods, heavy bleeding, and cramping could be signs that you have a gynecological condition called endometriosis that affects 1 in 10 women and girls in the United States. The endometrium is a special mucus-rich tissue that lines your uterus. Before your period, the endometrium grows new blood vessels and thickens with nutrient-rich blood as […]

You’re at least 21 years old, have given birth to at least one child, and now you’re thinking about becoming a surrogate to help someone you know create a family. But you’re not quite sure you’re ready to do it. You may be considering traditional surrogacy, in which one of your own eggs is artificially […]

Somewhere between 8-20 percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriage. That figure doesn’t account for the instances in which the woman miscarried so early in the pregnancy that she didn’t realize she was pregnant or had any symptoms of a miscarriage. But when your own pregnancy ends in miscarriage, knowing that 99% of women who […]