Dr. Schutt Proudly Provides LGBTQ Fertility Care
Dr. Amy Schutt helps make parenthood possible with LGBTQ fertility care
When members of the LGBTQ community want to start or grow their family, they can turn to Dr. Amy Schutt to get the help they need. This Austin fertility specialist feels it’s an honor to provide LGBTQ fertility care to her patients.
“Everyone should be able to have a family,
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Getting Intentional About Donor Services
Conceiving using donor services
When you decide to pursue donor services as an alternative to adoption, you solidify your intentions to become a parent. As an intended parent in our donor program, you can achieve your dream of growing your family. All it takes is the use of donor eggs, donor sperm, and/or gestational surrogacy.
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Why TFC? Embryology and Andrology
The importance of embryology and andrology
What happens in the IVF lab can make or break a cycle. When looking for a fertility clinic, you need to consider embryology and andrology. In this blog, I will tell you a little about our embryology and andrology programs. I’ll also discuss some of the things that make us different from other doctors who practice infertility.
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Waiting to Start a Family: Fertility Preservation Options
College. Career. Marriage. Baby. The new natural order in a woman’s life sometimes wreaks havoc on nature’s design for fertility. Studies show that approximately 20 percent of women wait until after age 35 to begin their families.* Society tells women that they can have it all without warning them that waiting too long to have a baby may interfere with a woman’s ability to conceive.
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Alternative Parenting
Exploring alternative parenting
We are so fortunate in these modern times with the medical advances that make parenting possible for so many people. Alternative parenting includes single women and gay and lesbian couples. It also includes older women needing donor eggs and women with partners with severe male factor who need donor sperm. Just to think that only about 30 years ago none of these people would have been able to fulfill their dream of having children of their own.
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Making Treatment Choices
One of the most difficult choices facing patients is whether and when to move from one step of the fertility process to another. Agreeing to see a fertility specialist and choosing to pursue a treatment plan is often a decision that is reached by couples after much discussion and struggle. If one particular intervention does not result in a successful pregnancy,
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Preparing for Pregnancy
Fertility Expectations
Fertility expectations in girls and women
As little girls growing up, we often dreamed about the children that we were going to have. Later, we were cautioned not to have sex or to at least use protection by our parents who didn’t want us to get pregnant at a young age. Thus, it is frustrating and challenging to discover that you are actually having difficulty getting pregnant.
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Donor Egg Cycles IVF
Just in time for National Infertility Awareness Week
Dr. Vaughn was invited to share his expertise with readers in an upcoming issue of Uptown Magazine in which 3 couples share their emotional, yet rewarding journeys towards parenthood. Here’s an inside look at the May issue available now on newsstands everywhere and online at:
http://uptownmagazine.com/2011/04/overcoming-infertility/
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