I’m humbled this pregnancy by the insane nausea I experienced this time around. At all moments of everyday I just felt sick to my stomach with no vomiting (idk what’s worse tbh). Now this doesn’t work for everyone but there’s a whole algorithm to feeling much better. 1. For starters: taking prena

As a fertility doctor I wish more people knew this…

Hot food and drinks for the win 🍲

The fear of loss is real especially when you’ve gone through fertility treatments. You can see every week that goes by that risk substantially goes down. By 13 weeks it’s only 0.8% Hoping this can ease your anxiety 🙏🏼🫶🏼

Bringing these quick facts reels back since everyone wants quick facts in just a few seconds 😅 and as a women’s health physician and fertility specialist there are SO MANY things I wish more people knew!

Mother’s Day is one of those days that hits completely differently depending on where you are in life. If this one is hard: if you’re grieving, waiting, healing, or missing someone…I just want you to know that your feelings are so valid. You don’t have to perform happiness today. It’s okay to feel

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All I can say is… it’s a lot 😅

As a fertility doctor I see the craziest recommendations from unqualified people online who sell courses, coaching and supplements making ridiculous claims that frankly go against science. And while the food I’m holding are notoriously well known to be good for fertility, there isn’t a singular foo

Have you heard of the “TLC” (Tender Loving Care) protocol in the first trimester? This refers to a supportive care approach for women (specifically for recurrent pregnancy loss) consisting of frequent prenatal visits with serial weekly ultrasound monitoring beginning early in pregnancy and extendin

As requested: Chance of miscarriage based on female age. While sperm certainly can contribute to pregnancy loss, the primary reason for spontaneous miscarriage is chromosome abnormalities which primarily comes from the eggs. This is because eggs are very prone to error. Poor sperm can lead to incr

The fear of loss is real especially when you’ve gone through fertility treatments. You can see every week that goes by that risk substantially goes down. By 13 weeks it’s only 0.8% Hoping this can ease your anxiety 🙏🏼🫶🏼

Do not discount poorly graded embryos. Embryos are dynamic! A poor grade after looking at it once doesn’t tell you the whole story- it’s also a VERY subjective test. According to the literature, The largest study of 2,236 single euploid frozen embryo transfers found that ICM grade A versus C

🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 Stopped posting on TikTok 🫠 but if you’re curious to see my entire embryo transfer journey head over to the other app 😂😅

Also, turns out you don’t need a membership to get meds from @costco either. Now some clinics do have special discounted med programs for patients but it’s usually not this low. If you’re out of pocket and looking to reduce the financial burden of treatment you can ask your clinical team to send yo

We spend so much time focusing on how to get pregnant and far less time preparing patients for what comes after. As an OBGYN and fertility specialist, and as someone who went through IVF myself, I’ve seen this gap from both sides. Many patients plan to breastfeed, but far fewer reach the duratio

Should you delay IVF or egg freezing to improve egg quality, or could waiting actually hurt your chances? In this episode of Trying to Conceive, Dr. Sasha Hakman is joined by renowned reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Philip Romanski to break down what the science really says about timing fertil

If you wake up from your egg retrieval and learn that fewer eggs were retrieved than you expected, there can be several reasons why. Often, patients are told the total number of follicles seen on ultrasound without enough context. Follicles measuring under ~15 mm at the time of trigger are much

Everyone should ask their doctor for this test if they’ve been diagnosed with a pregnancy loss. This information is critical to help guide future treatments if needed 🫶🏼

Many couples still believe that “saving up” sperm improves their chances of conceiving. But the data consistently shows the opposite. - Motility drops by 22–28% when ejaculation is spaced out for 5–7 days. - DNA fragmentation increases with longer abstinence intervals, which can affect fertiliz