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Fertility Stories
Share your fertility stories
When you’re trying to conceive, it’s natural to search for understanding and hope in other people’s experiences. The internet makes it easy for people struggling with infertility or loss to seek out fertility stories that may be similar to their own, and sharing yours through our Louisiana fertility center can help others find the help they need to finally achieve their dreams of parenthood.
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Fertility insurance can be complicated and confusing, which is why our Louisiana fertility center works hand-in-hand with you to understand your benefits and take advantage of all available discounts and financing options available to you.
Despite the fact that the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) has formally defined infertility as a “disease,” most managed-care insurance plans still do not cover fertility treatments, such as intrauterine insemination (IUI) or in vitro fertilization (IVF). Some states have mandated that insurers pay for necessary fertility treatment, but at this time, Louisiana’s fertility insurance laws are somewhat more limited.
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The good news is that Louisiana’s fertility insurance laws do prohibit insurers from declining to cover treatable medical conditions solely because they cause infertility. However, the law also lists many fertility procedures and treatments that health insurance doesn’t have to cover, such as fertility medications, IVF and other assisted reproductive technology and vasectomy
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Some insurance plans may cover diagnostic care to reveal the cause of infertility, but if treatment is needed, most patients are responsible for paying for it out of pocket.
At our Louisiana fertility center, we do everything we possibly can to lower the cost of your fertility treatment, maximize the use of any fertility insurance benefits available to you and help you take advantage of all available discounts and financing options.
To make fertility treatments as cost effective as possible our Louisiana fertility center will:
• Create a custom treatment plan just for you that maximizes your chances of success while minimizing cost.
• Maximize the use of all benefits available to you through your insurance plan.
• Assist you with locating outside sources of financing so that you can get the treatment you need.
• Ensure that you take advantage of all medication discounts available through partnerships with pharmaceutical manufacturers.
• Offer an annual fertility treatment grant program, Gift of Hope.
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"They did everything they could to help me and make me feel comfortable,” Grant said. “The only thing on my mind was, ‘I can’t get pregnant!’”
For many years, infertile couples have had difficulty facing the reality that they can not have children. According to Nidus Information Services Incorporated, 6.2 million women in the United States are infertile. This problem leads to many options. A few options have been used for a long period of time: the couple could adopt a child or keep trying to have a child themselves. For those couples that want to have their own children, there are new options arising. In vetro fertilization is an option that gives couples the chance to have a doctor combine the male's sperm and the woman's eggs in a petri dish and implant them into the woman's womb after the artificial conception. This may result in multiple pregnancies - more than five in some cases. This does not only occur in implantation, however. Many times the patient's doctor will ask her to consider selective reduction: aborting a few fetuses to save the ones she can. In a case of multiple pregnancy, selective reduction should be considered an option.
IVF does have its pros, but for some couples the cons could possibly outweigh these benefits. According to BabyCenter.com, some pros are things such as successful track record, no link to cancer, and improved techniques. But the list of cons seem to outweigh these pros by a few negative factors such as: price, time consuming, IVF not working, and potential complications for the baby and mother during delivery (BabyCenter). Clearly some of these cons are easily fixed by family help or the couple’s salary, but for almost all middle class soon-to-be mothers, this procedure will put a dent in their daily lifestyles. Just for my IVF procedure, my parents spent around $25,000. They had to sell their house and downgrade to a much smaller one, but also were lucky enough to receive financial help from my grandparents, because they were just as passionate of this procedure as were my parents. If a couple can see past the cons, and agree that the pros outweigh them, then IVF is a procedure for them. Among the pros is the success rate, which is seemingly very different depending on age groups. According to American Pregnancy Association (2012), the success rates differ per age group. For example: under the age of 35 is 41%-43%, age 35-37 is 33%-36%, age 38-40 is 23%-27%, and lastly above the age of 40 is 13%-15% (AmericanPregnancy, 2012). Although the numbers for the younger ages seem low, there are far more success stories than not. These age gaps prove that the older the female, the harder it is to conceive. If the success rate is that low for women over 40, imagine the success rate for women 60-65 years or older. Therefore, in order to prevent females above the age of 60-65 to follow through with an IVF procedure in the future, government needs to intervene now before the option is
Infertility can have many causes as age, spouse sperm count and morphology, smoking, weight, whether or not a women ovulate or not, whether she have any blockages or abnormalities in their Fallopian tubes. Usually a fertility specialist will order a pelvic ultrasound to start out, to check for blockages and abnormalities in the uterus and a semen count from the spouse to see how are his sperm, how they are shaped and how they move. Depending on the results from that, the doctor may put the women on a for a few months drug to stimulate the ovary and that way she can ovulate if she don 't ovulate. If that doesn 't work, they will go on to Intrauterine insemination or in vitro fertilization.
In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is a complex series of procedures used to help those who want children but struggle with infertility. The process consists of extracting eggs from a woman and collecting a man’s sperm sample then manually combining them in a lab dish. Once the embryo(s) are created they are transferred to a woman’s uterus. IVF is commonly used in woman who cannot conceive on their own due to different reasonings. “These include but are not limited to blocked or damaged fallopian tubes, male factor infertility, woman with ovulation disorders, genetic disorders, woman who have had their fallopian tubes removed and unexplained infertility.” (American Pregnancy)
Second, many factors contribute to infertility, which can affect either one of the couples. Some factors include:
...nt with a child, fulfill their dreams of having a child. Commercial surrogacy is a good option because it allows the family to have a natural bond with the baby, by sharing their DNA. It is still part of their child, and if both parties agree to this process, then it is beneficial for everyone.
Adoption options in Louisiana for same-sex couples are extremely limited. The Louisiana code provides, “A single person, eighteen years or older, or a married couple jointly may petition to adopt a child through an agency.” This means that gay and lesbian couples may adopt individually. The code explicitly states that for a couple to adopt they must be married. Gay and lesbian couples cannot legally marry in Louisiana, as it is strongly against public policy. Therefore, they cannot jointly adopt a child legally.
You and your doctor will work together to choose a treatment that's best for you. This article can help you make that choice.
For most of people, the only way to conceive a child is through sexual intercourse between a man and a woman by contributing the egg and the sperm into a woman’s womb. In a common practice, this is the only way on how to conceive a child. However, since the growing of time, with parenthood changing all thanks to the assisted reproductive technology (ART), the usual norm of conceiving a child has changed dramatically over the past decades. Lewis Vaughn describes this process to “address the agonizing problem of infertility and the powerful desire that many people have for their children of their own, especially children with whom they have a biological link” (Vaughn 392). The methods of reproductive technology is always understood under the scientific world, nonetheless, it remains a controversial topic within people.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2.1 million married couples experience troubles with infertility. Infertility is defined as trying for over a year and not becoming pregnant for women under 35 and trying for six months for women over 35. The cause of the infertility is a male factor one third of the instances, female another third, ten percent of the cause is a combination of both male and female factors and the remaining twenty percent is not apparent. In vitro fertilization is a process that tries to eliminate the problems inherent in the mother and father. It involves an egg is fer...
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As you consider treatment options that are available it’s important to keep in mind the following:
Before watching “Life’s Greatest Miracle,” I knew conceiving a baby is a complex and difficult process. However, I did not realize just how complex and difficult that process actually is. Conceiving a baby takes a lot more than meets the eye: it takes DNA from both genders, the right timing and so much more.