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July 1, 2022
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Many patients often wonder whether it is better to have a Day 3 or Day 5 embryo transfer. At San Diego Fertility Center, we allow the embryos to guide us in determining which transfer day will give you the best chances of success in your IVF cycle.…
### Clearing Up the Confusion About Insurance Benefits for Fertility Treatments
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Before undergoing fertility treatments, Dr. Hummel and Dr. Kettel recommend exploring your insurance benefits. There are three levels to the issue of insurance benefits for fertility treatment. Your State Law: Depending on where you live, your…
### Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and Infertility
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Most people are aware that increasing maternal age leads to a decline in fertility. In fact, this decline occurs fairly acutely after age 37 and continues to decline up through the menopause. In almost any arena in which age is evaluated,…
### The Basics About Surrogacy
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Both Dr. Hummel and Dr. Kettel have extensive experience to help patients become parents through gestational surrogacy. Both Dr. Hummel and Dr. Kettel have extensive experience to help patients become parents through gestational surrogacy. A couple…
### Pelvic Physical Therapy Improves IVF Outcome
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There is a small number of physical therapists, that specialize in manual pelvic physical therapy, which has shown to improve natural and IVF success rates. Pelvic physical therapy works directly on the muscles, organs and support structures of the…
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Using PGD simply to choose the baby’s gender is still controversial these days. In some centers, sex selection is only considered for couples with a high risk to pass along sex-linked disorders such as hemophilia. However, when fertility patients a…