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	<title>Private Midwifery in Sydney &#187; IVF</title>
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		<title>Chinese medicine could double chances of conceiving child</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link Couples with fertility problems are twice as likely to conceive using traditional Chinese medicine as compared to western drugs &#8230; The researchers at Adelaide University, Australia, reviewed eight clinical trials, 13 other studies and case reports comparing the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) with western drugs or IVF treatment. The review &#8230; included 1,851 women with infertility problems, and the clinical trials alone found a 3.5 rise in pregnancies over a four-month period among women using TCM compared with western medicine. &#8230; 50 percent of women having TCM got pregnant compared with 30 percent of those receiving IVF [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maternal Obesity May Lead To Infertility In The Next Generation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MEDICARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR MIDWIFERY CARE THROUGH THIS SERVICE! Want to know more about home birth, hospital birth or Medicare-funded private midwifery care? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link Levels of the hormone ghrelin are low in obese women and a recent study &#8230; reports that mice whose mothers had low ghrelin levels were less fertile due to a defect in implantation. &#8230; ghrelin [has] been shown to regulate reproductive function in animals and humans &#8230; &#8230; results suggest that low ghrelin levels could program the development of the uterus in the female children of obese women. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do IVF Pregnancies Raise Death Risk for Mothers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or Medicare-funded private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link Maternal deaths resulting from in vitro fertilization (IVF) are relatively rare, but they do occur &#8230; &#8230; In the new report, Susan Bewley, an obstetrician at Kings College in London, and colleagues cite a study in the Netherlands that shows that the rate of pregnant women dying during IVF pregnancies is higher than during pregnancies in the general population. Specifically, there were 42 deaths per 100,000 IVF pregnancies, compared with six deaths seen among 100,000 pregnancies in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elective Single Embryo Transfer Boosts The Chance Of A Healthy Baby</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or Medicare-funded private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link Women who undergo elective single embryo transfer as part of &#8230; IVF are five times more likely to give birth to a healthy baby compared with double embryo transfer &#8230; The study recommends that clinicians should, from now on, advise women to have an elective single embryo transfer (eSET) as part of assisted reproduction treatment rather than a double embryo transfer (DET). Although there has been increasing success in infertility treatments in recent years, there have also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Examines Complication Rates For Pregnancies After Age 44</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link Women who become pregnant at age 45 or older have an elevated risk of several complications to their own health and that of their infants &#8230; The older women were more likely to have health conditions during their pregnancies, with 17% experiencing gestational diabetes &#8230; Nine percent of the older group had high blood pressure while pregnant, compared with less than 3% of younger women. Older women had caesarean-section births at more than twice the overall rate and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IVF increases the chance of having a baby boy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link Women using IVF to get pregnant should be aware that they will be more likely to have a boy than a girl &#8230; &#8230; the odds of a boy went up from 51 in 100 when conceived naturally to 56 in 100. But another assisted reproduction technique called ICSI, which singles out the sperm that will fertilise the IVF egg, makes a girl more likely. &#8230; &#8220;There is no evidence I am aware of to show that sex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IVF Kids May Have Higher Cancer Risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link Children conceived using in vitro fertilization (IVF) appear to have a moderately elevated risk of cancer &#8212; although the absolute risk remains low &#8230; Among the 26,692 children studied who were conceived by IVF between 1982 and 2005, after adjusting for year of birth, the estimated odds ratio for cancer risk was 1.42 (95% CI 1.09 to 1.87, P=0.01) compared with children who were not conceived via IVF &#8230; &#8230; however, IVF itself may not be responsible &#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Causes of autism: Could delayed childbearing, infertility treatment, and premature birth contribute to autism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link Research … suggests the answer is yes. … At this point, experts can only guess at the biological basis for the links they&#8217;re finding. And those clues are not enough to recommend changes in, for example, infertility treatment. Still, knowing who may be at risk of autism could improve diagnosis, which might enable earlier intervention. One study … followed babies who weighed less than 4.4 pounds at birth through to age 21. Nearly 5 percent of these 623 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infertility treatments may raise preterm birth risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link Couples who conceive through &#8230; IVF or &#8230; ICSI had a higher risk of preterm delivery. &#8230; nearly 8 percent were premature and 1.5 percent were very premature &#8230; &#8230; roughly 5 percent of babies born to fertile mothers were premature, and 0.6 percent were very pre-term &#8230; &#8230; Other forms of fertility treatment &#8230; were not related to the risk of preterm delivery. [The study only looked at singleton babies, so the findings could not be explained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The impact of endometriosis on infertility</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Maimann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interested in home birth, hospital birth or private midwifery care? Questions or comments? Email Melissa Maimann or call 0400 418 448. Link Endometriosis affects 10 percent of women of reproductive age, yet the condition remains one of the most neglected and underfunded fields of research in gynecology &#8230; &#8230; the statistical association between endometriosis and infertility is beyond dispute. One well-cited study found a higher prevalence of endometriosis in infertile women (48 percent) than in fertile women undergoing tubal sterilization (5 percent) &#8230; infertile women are 6-8 times more likely to have endometriosis than fertile women. &#8230; a new diagnostic [...]]]></description>
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