I recently came up with a way to describe patients who are 45 or younger, with menstrual cycles every month and elevated FSH levels that have been told by their docs they should use donor eggs but just aren’t ready to and want to keep trying. “Donor Egg Limbo” is the best way to describe this scenario and it is one of the hardest places to be in. If you haven’t been there, you don’t know what the struggle is like. I really can’t compare it to any other type of scenario that a human being can experience so that an outsider can relate……This is how you know you’re in donor egg limbo: you’re young, you may or may not have regular cycles or predictable ovulations, you’ve done fertility treatments - maybe even IVF cycles but your FSH level is over 12 and your doctors have given you a less than 5% chance of conceiving with your own eggs. But this is the thing – you’re not ready to use donor eggs, and in fact you don’t think you’d ever go that route. So what do you do in the meantime? You want to keep trying but you don’t feel like you... 
If you didn't know this already, Giuliana and Bill have their own reality show and they've been recently chronicling their most recent IVF attempt. Giuliana Rancic is the host of E! News and her husband Bill gained fame when he was the winner of The Apprentice. The couple has been trying to get pregnant for almost 2 years. Their first IVF attempt was in March 2010 and they sadly miscarried at 8 weeks of pregnancy. They just completed their second cycle. This is what I think we can all learn from the show: (more…) 
Join us on December 20th at 8PM Eastern for a live chat with Dr. Aimee on the basics of IVF Click here to join in: http://thefertilityblogs.com/ask-the-experts/chatroom/ You can read the transcript here ! http://thefertilityblogs.com/2010/12/december-ivf-chat-with-dr-aimee/ 
This year, Oakland Magazine chose five outstanding physicians to profile from the list of 251 doctors named the Best in the East Bay. Each one is a recognized leader in his or her field. See the article below: Eyvazzadeh, 33, has established a solid reputation as a fertility expert and sees patients from the greater Bay Area and beyond. After attending medical school and completing an internship at the University of California, Los Angeles, she completed her residency in obstetrics/gynecology at the Harvard School of Medicine, served as a fellow in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Michigan Medical Center and obtained a master’s in public health from the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. Did you always want to be a doctor? How did you choose your specialty area? I’ve known since the age of 3 that I wanted to be a doctor. Both my father and grandfather are OB/GYN physicians, and my grandmother is a midwife. Helping women to conceive is a part of my DNA. (more…) 
