I'm excited to have Dr. Allen joining me today on the Egg Whisperer Show podcast to talk about surrogacy and how to have an emotionally healthy journey. She is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on working with fertility patients, and has a lot of experience counseling people who have chosen a surrogate as part of their journey. Surrogacy is for everyday people who want to grow their family, but they are unable to do that with their own uterus for a number of reasons. In this interview, Dr. Allen and I talk about how we help patients focus on ways to keep the surrogacy relationship ..read more

Get the full show notes: https://www.draimee.org/the-7-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-trigger-shot   I often tell my patients that we should rename the Trigger Shot, the super unicorn sparkle shot, the egg launcher shot, or the EGG-cellerator shot. Let's be honest, the Trigger Shot is the worst name for something that does so much good on a fertility journey.⠀ In this episode, I'm sharing all about The Trigger Shot, and giving you the 7 things you need to know about it. Should you test for ovulation afterwards, and if so, when? Do you have to have a Trigger Shot? Can you administer it at ..read more

Get the full show notes: https://www.draimee.org/three-makes-baby-how-to-parent-your-donor-conceived-child On the journey to growing a family, more and more people are choosing donor eggs or sperm as an option. As a community, it's time to further the conversation about how to embrace donor conception as an option because the fact is: every woman will run out of eggs at some point in her life, and it doesn't change the fact that she may still want to grow her family. I'm delighted to have author, and therapist, Jana Rupnow on the podcast this week to talk about donor conception. Find the full ..read more

Read the full show notes: https://www.draimee.org/your-guide-to-picking-an-egg-donor-sperm-donor-and-gestational-carrier   Dr. Aimee shares how she personalize the process of finding an egg donor, sperm donor, or gestational carrier, so that everyone involves feels like they are well informed and empowered with the right information. Do you have questions about IVF?Click here to join Dr. Aimee for The IVF Class. The next live class call is on Monday, May 20, 2024 at 4pm PST, where Dr. Aimee will explain IVF and there will be time to ask her your questions live on Zoom. Click to find The E ..read more

Read the full show notes: https://www.draimee.org/10-things-to-avoid-if-youre-trying-to-conceive   Last year in the United States a baby was born every 8 seconds. That‘s roughly 3.8 Million babies born last year alone! You don’t have to be a fertility doctor to know what that means. Millions of people just like you were trying to conceive. Research tells us that most couples conceive within six cycles of timed intercourse, but many others (roughly 10% of couples) are struggling with fertility. Here’s the funny thing about what I do. I want to teach you how NOT to be my patient. Of course ..read more

Read the full show notes: https://www.draimee.org/secondary-infertility Secondary infertility affects so many of my patients. In today’s podcast episode, I’m talking about what happens when someone has no trouble getting pregnant for baby number one and then struggles to conceive another child. People in this situation often don’t know what to do because this is so new to them. I’m sharing everything you need to know about secondary infertility: the causes, treatments, and some of my tips. The truth is, secondary infertility is overwhelming and upsetting. You want to make sure that you have pe ..read more

Today on the Egg Whisperer Show, I’m excited to be joined by Dr. Nabil Arrach. Dr. Arrach is the Scientific Director at Progenesis, Inc. He has 20 years of research experience in molecular genetics, both in preclinical and clinical settings. He was the first scientist to optimize and validate next generation sequencing for PGT-A and PGT-M and he continues to work on new emerging fields in IVF. We will be talking about who should be testing their embryos, the difference between chromosomes and genes, mosaicism, and the importance and limitations of genetic testing. Read the full show notes on D ..read more

Read the full show notes: https://www.draimee.org/how-to-approach-ivf-challenges-with-guest-dr-john-norian   I’m excited to have one of my favorite fertility docs, Dr. John Norian from HRC joining me today on the Egg Whisperer Show podcast to talk about IVF Challenges. We will talk about the IVF challenges of having no eggs at retrieval, no blasts, sensitivity to pelvic exams and injections and so much more. Dr. Norian does a great job of answering so many of my questions about different scenarios and offering his insight.  Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website Find Dr. Joh ..read more

Today on the Egg Whisperer Show, I’m delighted to have the inventor of the IVF Pyramid joining me!  So often in IVF, we talk about things in terms of depletion. What are you losing? For example, you start off with a certain number of eggs at the beginning of the cycle. That’s called the antral follicle count. As the cycle progresses sometimes not all of those eggs grow. In the end, for example, you may gain two healthy embryos from twenty follicles and so it is a natural and normal human response to feel like something is lost and that something was taken away from you. I want to flip tha ..read more

Read the transcript: https://www.draimee.org/the-real-risks-with-ivf-that-everyone-should-know   I'm honored to have Dr. Jie Deng  as a guest on The Egg Whisperer Show podcast today. She is not only an Obgyn and Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist (did extra training studying high risk pregnancies), she is also a fertility doctor at Stanford University finishing up her Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellowship. We are talking about the risks of birth defects, autism and cancer with IVF treatment. She's also answering questions about whether ICSI increases the risk of birth ..read more