Environmental Chemicals May Prove Obstacle for Infertile Couples
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 14:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Kira Testin knew that something was wrong before she and her husband ever saw the fertility specialist. “We had been trying for a year to get pregnant,” recalls Testin, who was 27 at the time. “We weren’t naïve, but it still was devastating to hear that we would be unable to conceive naturally.”For the Testins, in vitro fertilization (IVF) – when a woman’s eggs are retrieved, fertilized and grown to embryo-stage in a petri dish, then implanted back in her uterus – was their only chance at pregnancy. [More]