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If there’s an infertility topic you want to learn more about or a concern you want to research, chances are one of our experts has written an article or two about it or has spoken about it in an interview.

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Pregnancy After Miscarriage or Loss

By Leyla Bilali, BSN, RN

Whether it’s your first miscarriage or loss or your second, third, fourth, etc. – yes, sadly, recurrent miscarriage happens too often than I’d like to admit – it makes even the smoothest, healthy pregnancy after feel like a rollercoaster. Once you’ve gone through something that traumatic it’s hard to go back to where you started and have the benefit of ignorance is bliss – the innocence and excitement that brings about the joy of pregnancy with a healthy baby no longer applies. You’re scarred. And nobody can blame you for that.

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Ectopic Pregnancy, Explained

By Leyla Bilali, BSN, RN

Whether you are conceiving naturally or via fertility treatment there’s always a risk that an ectopic pregnancy may occur. This is often when two common misconceptions come in:

  1. If you’re doing in vitro fertilization (IVF) this shouldn’t happen, because you’re placing the embryo where it should be.

  2. There’s a higher risk of ectopic pregnancy with IVF.

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