You Can Travel Over the Holidays While Taking Fertility Medications!

With the holidays in full swing, many people are planning on traveling to see family or enjoy a sunny or wintery vacation. Even for your average traveler, flying can be challenging, but if you are also on a fertility journey, you will need to take a few extra precautions especially, if you are taking fertility medications while working around appointments... read more »

Wellness and Your Fertility Potential

Practicing wellness is a vital component of improving your fertility potential for 2020. Our Idaho Fertility Center team has what you need to help you reach your fertility goals. We have helped many families grow, feel hope and achieve their dreams. Our dedicated team is thrilled to assist you by supporting your efforts to focus on your physical and mental... read more »

Ovulation Induction Can Help You Overcome Infertility

At Idaho Fertility Center, we are pleased to provide fertility treatments to help couples begin the family of their dreams. One of the ways we help couples increase their chances of conception is through timed intercourse – often referred to as ovulation induction or controlled ovarian hyperstimulation. This is particularly helpful for a woman with ovulation disorders such as PCOS.... read more »

Do You Have Questions About Gestational Surrogacy?

In our blog last month, we talked a little bit about surrogacy and briefly touched on gestational surrogacy. In this month's blog, we'd like to expand on this topic by answering some common questions that arise around gestational surrogacy. Q. What is gestational surrogacy? A. In this arrangement, the surrogate or gestational carrier isn't biologically related to the baby she... read more »

Why You Might Want to Preserve Your Eggs

If you are wanting to start a family someday bearing biological children but aren't ready right now because you're going to school, focusing on your career, or have health concerns where treatment might interfere with conception later, you may want to plan ahead and consider preserving your eggs now. Freezing your eggs for fertilization down the road involves a process... read more »

Can Intrauterine Insemination Help Solve Your Fertility Problems?

When it comes to finding a fertility treatment that is fairly simple and performed with or without the help of fertility drugs, look no further than IUI, or intrauterine insemination. Simply stated, the treatment is done by transferring semen which has been carefully washed and concentrated and then inserted via a catheter into a woman's uterus. Inserting the sperm directly... read more »

Conditions Involved in Male Factor Infertility

Infertility can be caused by a variety of factors affecting the male or female partner, or both. Though issues involving male infertility can make up as much as 50% of infertility cases, less than half that percentage of men seem to be referred for a medical analysis. We review some of the common medical conditions that can make up male... read more »

Could a Medical Condition Be Blocking Conception?

A common infertility stigma is that it’s mainly an issue for middle-aged women who didn’t get pregnant early enough in life. While it’s true that age can affect the ease of conception, a larger truth is that infertility can happen to anyone for a number of reasons. With National Infertility Awareness Week taking place this month, we review a few... read more »

What You Should Know about Infertility

Every year in April, we witness National Infertility Awareness Week, a time to pay special homage to those who have had to define their expectations for a family, as well as address the stigmas that surround infertility. We offer a review of the nature of infertility to support those who struggle with natural conception and help couples receive the professional... read more »