Fertility

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How to Cope When Fertility Treatment Doesn’t Result in a Pregnancy

May 12, 2021
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By Kate Henson, ORM Fertility Psy.D. Licensed Clinical Psychologist The Initial Blow It’s likely you went through a great deal on your fertility journey and it’s normal to experience disappointment and feelings of loss when you don’t become pregnant. Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) are both very involved processes, physically and emotionally. […]

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What Causes Infertility? It’s Complicated!

April 20, 2021
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For many of us, our reproductive years go something like this…birth control, birth control, birth control, baby, birth control, birth control. We spend the vast majority of our reproductive years actively trying to prevent pregnancy, desperately avoiding any minor slip-up that may lead to a wayward sperm and a determined egg meeting at a time […]

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What are the different types of donor arrangements and which one is right for me?

March 31, 2021
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Understanding the different donor arrangements will empower you and your family to choose the right one for your fertility journey.  When using third-party reproduction (TPR), a treatment that involves someone other than the intended parents, there are different types of gamete (sperm or egg) donor arrangements to consider. These arrangements include Directed (also referred to […]

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Tips for coping with infertility during quarantine and isolation.

Coping With Infertility During the COVID-19 Pandemic

February 23, 2021
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Infertility Meets COVID-19 Justifiably, most of us living in this time of pandemic live with some degree of fear about ourselves or a loved one becoming ill. For those struggling with infertility, COVID-19 presents the additional threat of impacting long-held dreams of having a child. Early in the course of the pandemic, fertility treatment was […]

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Tips, Tricks & Distractions for the Two-Week-Wait

Tips, Tricks & Distractions for the Two-Week-Wait

February 9, 2021
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The “two-week-wait” is the period of time between embryo transfer or IUI before you return to the clinic to take your pregnancy test and find out if it all worked. When going through a process that you’ve put so much energy into, a two-week-wait can feel like an eternity. You become hyper-aware of your body, […]

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ORM Certified in LGBTQ Family-Building Inclusion Training

February 2, 2021
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Historically, healthcare has been provided with a heteronormative lens, causing members of the LGBTQ+ community to feel alienated when seeking out care. From gendered forms and bathrooms to the emphasis on heterosexual relationships in conversations with office staff or physicians, oftentimes LGBTQ+ individuals are overlooked.  At ORM Fertility, we believe that Love is Family. We […]

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5 Things to Know When You’re #TTC

January 25, 2021
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One thing we commonly hear from patients is, ‘Oh, I wish I knew that when I first started trying!”’ because by the time patients seek fertility treatment, they’ve typically been trying to get pregnant for a while. Here are five things to know when you’re trying to conceive. Put together by ORM Reproductive Endocrinologist Dr. […]

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Sex Selection for Family Balancing using PGT

December 3, 2020
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Since the first successful In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) live birth in 1978, the technology behind infertility treatment has helped millions of couples and individuals grow their family who might otherwise not have had the chance. Beyond making conception possible for intended parents, advances in IVF technology allow us to take an even deeper look into […]

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Meditation Resources

April 22, 2020
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Meditation Resources During this arduous time of COVID-19 and all of its repercussions, it’s important to take care of your mind and body in the resilient pursuit of happiness and the future you want for yourself. For many, it’s challenging to use this time for self-betterment when being bogged down by fears, stressors, and general […]

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Should I use ICSI?

March 12, 2020
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The general idea behind In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is that an egg is removed from a woman’s body and fertilized in the lab. Traditionally, sperm are placed in a lab dish next to an egg and left to fertilize the egg on their own. But this conventional method doesn’t always work.  We know that of […]

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