“ICSI” is one of those acronyms you never needed or wanted to know…until your fertility doctor brings it up.  While at first you might feel like a deer in headlights when your doctor says this word to you, or you might think you misheard what your doctor said–maybe they have a tickle in their throat?-- ICSI can be a game changer for those facing male-factor infertility. 

Navigating your social life while trying to concieve can be a delecate balance of protecting & honoring yourself, and not isolating yourself. Below we offer some advice on how to strike this balance.

When you're trying to conceive, it can seem as though pregnant people & talk of babies are suddenly everywhere - and you can’t escape. This phenomenon is known as The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, or Frequency Bias/Frequency Illusion.

I love to cover PCOS on the podcast not just because it affects 8-21% of women of reproductive age globally, but because it impacts my life as well.  I often open up on the podcast about my experience with PCOS and how it has impacted my life both in terms of fertility as well as my mental health. 

All too often I see women with PCOS getting misdiagnosed or being told they have PCOS but not being educated on what that may mean about fertility.  The more we can dialogue about this hormonal disorder, the more we can take care of ourselves and not let PCOS overpower us. 

All of my patients know how much I loathe “Dr. Google” and I recorded this episode with Christine Briton-Jones, a clinical embryologist and Director of Laboratory Services at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York (RMA of New York) to have a reliable resource to turn to to answer all questions relating to embryo grading.