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  At this point, you and your partner have both completed your fertility assessments, the physician has probably concluded by now that the infertility experienced is either due to the male partner or female partner or both or frustratingly, no known cause could be identified 😖😖😖 Now are you considering IVF treatment to start your family? If so, you have probably heard about ovarian stimulation, a crucial step in the IVF process that involves stimulating the ovaries to produce multiple eggs for fertilization. In this article, we will take look at how ovarian stimulation works in IVF and what you can expect during this initial phase of your fertility journey (this does not apply in situation of donor egg gamete). So, what is ovarian stimulation? During IVF, the goal is to retrieve as many healthy eggs as possible from the ovaries. Ovarian stimulation is the process of using medications to encourage the ovaries to produce multiple mature eggs instead of the one egg that typical...

  Masquerade Disease--- A Woman’s Struggle Happy International Women’s Day!! #EmbraceEquity #2023 No doubt it is one of the most important days of the entire year, it is “International women’s day!!! This post is specially dedicated to all women across the world, “Being a woman itself is a superpower” In honor of the struggle women go through, this article focuses on a disease that affects women and girls with most silently agonizing through the pain considering the difficulty and limitations in the diagnosis of this disease. Given how good this disease is at hiding, we can accurately refer to it a masquerade disease--- Endometriosis. It is no wonder that March also happens to be “ Endometriosis Awareness Month” Background: A woman’s uterus (womb) is lined with tissues called endometrial tissue which make up the lining called endometrium. With each menstrual cycle, a new endometrium is grown in preparation for the implantation of a fertilized egg. In the absence of a fe...