Center for Reproductive Endocrinology

  When you’re trying to conceive, it can feel like nearly everything you do can have an impact on your chances of success. Whether it’s your diet, specific supplements, or special positions, it can seem like everyone has advice about what will help or hurt your chances. So what about exercise? Is regularly hitting the gym or heading to the yoga studio improving your chances of success? Or are they sabotaging all of your efforts? Here, the fertility experts at SIRM Dallas fertility center in Dallas, Texas tells you three things you need to know about the relationship between exercise and fertility. 1.   Exercise Can Help You Achieve a Healthy Weight For many women who are struggling to conceive, the main obstacle is their weight. Women who are overweight have a higher likelihood of developing ovulatory issues, which can lead to infertility. Certain lifestyle changes, like regular exercise, can help women who are overweight achieve and maintain a healthy weight, which can re...

In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is a procedure first successfully utilized in 1978 in which a woman’s ovaries are stimulated with fertility drugs to produce multiple mature eggs, which are then removed from her body and are fertilized in the laboratory with her partner’s (or donor) sperm. The resulting embryos are cultured for three to five days, at which point the best 1 or 2 embryos are then transferred back into her uterus. IVF Procedures An IVF procedure at CRE involves the following steps: Preparing for Controlled Ovarian Hyperstimulation (COH) Undergoing Controlled Ovarian Hyperstimulation Egg Retrieval Sperm Processing Fertilization of Eggs in the Laboratory Selecting the Best Embryos for Transfer Embryo Transfer Cryopreservation (Freezing) of Remaining Embryos (This is dependent on having additional viable embryos left after embryo transfer. Embryos can be frozen for use at a later time and at a ...