If the buzz is to be believed,women now have access to a medication that can not only help shed weight but can also calm fertility panic.
It’s only now – 24 years later – that I am able to discuss it,and I still cry. Birth trauma is still vastly overlooked,but its impacts can last a lifetime.
The Baruahs know how torturous infertility treatment can be,having spent seven years enduring it. But when they finally held their son,“everything changed.”
Having children can be a joy,but they don’t come cheap. They are also important to the economy.
The state government’s donor recruitment drive may have good intentions,but without a review of family limits the idea of donating sperm feels too risky.
Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor,a father of four,says the nation’s falling fertility rate is a growing issue for all economic policymakers.
In a bid to help hundreds of patients wanting to start a family,the state government has launched a campaign to encourage Victorians to donate their sperm and eggs.
When egg freezing,with all its associated costs and uncertain outcomes,looks more attractive than just getting down to it,we are in the grip of crazy collective thinking.
On Money Diaries this week,we meet a diarist with severe endometriosis and adenomyosis who spends $9796 on fertility treatments and finishes four books.
Gone are the days when the identity of donors was a tightly guarded secret – and this biological dad couldn’t be happier.
When an Israeli shell struck Gaza’s largest fertility clinic in December,it destroyed more than 4000 embryos,plus 1000 more specimens of sperm and unfertilised eggs.