[Mrs. Don-o]

There are better, healthier approaches to infertility than IVF and other technologies which substitute lab processes for sexual union and conception. One is called NaProTechnology.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thought you might be interested.

[heartwood]

One possibility is that couples who are infertile may have naturally higher levels of epigenetic changes than the rest of the population, perhaps explaining the cause of their infertility.

Small study, 23 babies. Did they control for maternal age and health? What you'd really like to do is look at parents matched for age, health, and SES, and who ALL had difficulty conceiving - and compare IVF babies to those conceived after three years of trying, say.

[altura]

ping

[trumandogz]

Did the study say anything about the health of the Six or Seven babies that are washed down the drain in almost every IVF procedure?

[NonValueAdded]

And thus the seeds of the Butlerian Jihad were sown.

[Domestic Church]

I miscarried for 13 years and then had 3 babies...eat sweet potatoes and take prenatal vitamins before you conceive!

[Wuli]

Again, the science of DNA (life?) continues to admit, in additional ways, that “the gene” alone is not the master of its own fate.

Also, I have often asked if, in as much as one reason couples do things like IVF is that they are having problem reproducing naturally; and therefore, given how many years IVF has been in use now, has there been any study to determine if some percentage of the people who were conceived by IVF have inherited the conditions that limited their parents reproductive chances. And the corollary to that is - if my first question proves correct, then is the whole artificial reproductive industry a self-perpetuating, and expanding industry - helping to “create” a supply of ready future clients?