Women Who Can t Afford IVF Describe Shame Over Turning to Fundraising Health.com 3 hrs ago Rebecca Speare-Cole © GettyImages / AdobeStock / Photo Illustration by Jo Imperio for Health With the skyrocketing costs of IVF and other fertility treatments, more and more would-be parents are turning to fundraising sites in hopes of financing their families. But crowdfunding comes with its own costs.
Nelly Cabrera and her husband, Laz, reluctantly turned to online fundraising this month to help pay for in vitro fertilization (IVF) after years of struggling to get pregnant and footing infertility treatment bills. Nelly tells
Health that they started a GoFundMe and are already feeling shame and anguish about it. And they re far from alone.
Over half of Asian couples doing IVF have to use a white donor egg, report reveals
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Things couples try in a bid to conceive. (Courtesy)
Couples have revealed the extreme lengths they went to in a bid to get pregnant including cutting out carbs, becoming vegetarian - and having sex during a full moon. A study of 2,000 parents 21 per cent swore by the unfounded notion that women lying with their legs in the air after sex will help them to get pregnant. Others tracked their ovulation cycle (30 per cent), only had sex in a particular position (17 per cent) or lost weight (13 per cent) to try and increase their chances of conceiving.
One in 10 gave up smoking, but only a fifth quit drinking alcohol while trying to conceive. Just under half (46 per cent) felt it took longer for them to get pregnant than they thought it would, with 45 per cent feeling it was never going to happen for them. Susanne Bisinotto, from Vitabiotics Pregnacare Conception, which commissioned the research, said: There is lots of advice out there on how to conceive and not all of it is completely
Sperm donor who fathered 35 kids says demand has soared during Covid pandemic
A prolific sperm donor says his services have increased in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic. He s fathered 35 kids and has six more babies on the way
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