It’s no secret that over time the number of eggs women produce decreases with age.  What you may not realize is the quality of the eggs that we produce are not exclusively related to our age.  What we eat, the amount of stress we endure and exposure to pollution in the environment also affects our egg quality and reproduction.

This isn’t all entirely news, but what you may not know is that Vitamin D is extremely important when you are planning to have a child.  The relevance of Vitamin D in reproduction isn’t necessarily the first factor you think about when you’re planning to have a child, but it should be. 

Vitamin D is important for bone health, but is also important for healthy reproduction.

We are constantly progressing in technology and modern medicine. We are also evolving in our ideas of what makes a family and how it helps shape our world today. What we have now is a vastly broad definition of what makes a family – and that’s so exciting! We see families of all different sizes and shapes, and at Neway we are very enthusiastic in aiding the creation of today’s modern family.

Any woman who is struggling with infertility will tell you that one of the worst parts of going through in vitro fertilization (IVF) are the daily hormone injections. For some women, those injections can sometimes be dangerous. 

Thanks in no small part to Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, the conversation around the need for more female executives at top companies has grown louder over the past couple years. And studies have shown that this may have something to do with women’s management styles and approaches.

One of the most discussed fertility topics among women today is egg freezing. It’s not uncommon for women in the their twenties and thirties to bring up the issue over brunch and mimosas—and that’s a good thing. We should be talking about it more.

Many women never have a conversation with a doctor about their fertility until after numerous failed attempts to get pregnant. For some this may mean they have missed out on some options available to them. At Neway we believe that in educating women about fertility, we allow them to take better control of their bodies and their lives.

Both autoimmune and alloimmune mechanisms have been studied and implicated as causes of recurrent pregnancy loss.  Autoimmune disorders are a better studied field with larger amounts of clinical evidence that have linked recurrent pregnancy loss with certain autoimmune disease such as systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid syndrome.

We will further discuss these two diseases, its treatments and patient education in later sections.

Recurrent Miscarriage is one of the most devastating diagnoses where a woman has no issues getting pregnant but is unable to keep a pregnancy. Overall, approximately 12 to 15% of clinically recognized pregnancies end in spontaneous miscarriage between 4 and 20 weeks of gestation. About 50 to 75% of miscarriages are the result of chromosomal abnormalities in the embryo and occur by chance.

High FSH in women is most commonly an indicator of diminished ovarian reserve/ovarian insufficiency or premature ovarian aging. These terms are commonly used to describe women who are under the age of 40 and experience a decreased amount of potential eggs, but diminished ovarian reserve is also the result of advancing age.