The Egg Whisperer Show

Recently, Jessica wrote in to Ask The Egg Whisperer. Here’s what she says, “Have done 2 transfers back-to-back. Last one was a confirmed fail. I was told at that sonogram that my uterus is too large. I have had PCOS and had two surgeries, the last time was 5 years ago. She said that the average size of a uterus is 7cm x 3cm and mine was 7cm x 8cm and tilted. Do babies prefer condos to mansions?” I love this question and how Jessica has worded it! Here’s the thing. If your uterus is enlarged, the one word that I'm thinking of is adenomyosis. So I would talk to your doctor about a pelvic MRI to see what is going on. The other thing that you can do is the ReceptivaDX test to see if there's any type of inflammation in the uterus (but remember: ReceptivaDX is not a test for adenomyosis .It may detect silent endometriosis. But if it comes back negative, it doesn’t mean that you do not have adenomyosis.) There's no perfect test for adenomyosis. So, consider: Pelvic MRI, ultrasound findings, clinical signs and symptoms, and laparoscopically looking at the uterus. Those are the ways of figuring it out.  Tune in to hear the full answer, and the answer to 10 other questions in this episode. To submit your own question to Dr. Aimee for a future episode of Ask The Egg Whisperer, click here.  Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School

I am so excited to have Tia Chapinski and and Daniella Virijevic on today’s show. They are co-authors of "The Infertility Doula," which is a brand new book about everything you need to know about the fertility journey. Tia and Daniella met through RESOLVE. They wanted to find a way to share their experiences navigating their fertility journeys and came together to write this book. I hope you'll join us to hear about how to support yourself and others during a fertility journey, how you can continue to find hope even during hard times, and all about what it means to be an Infertility Doula. Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

I'm excited to have Dr. Allen joining me today on the Egg Whisperer Show podcast to talk about surrogacy and how to have an emotionally healthy journey. She is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on working with fertility patients, and has a lot of experience counseling people who have chosen a surrogate as part of their journey. Surrogacy is for everyday people who want to grow their family, but they are unable to do that with their own uterus for a number of reasons. In this interview, Dr. Allen and I talk about how we help patients focus on ways to keep the surrogacy relationship peaceful and harmonious. While any relationship can have challenges, this discussion will teach you everything you need to know to keep this special relationship special and beautiful for everyone involved.  Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

Intrauterine insemination (IUI) is a procedure commonly done in fertility clinics around the world. We place the sperm inside the uterus, close to the fallopian tubes. If you’re going to do IUI treatment, you want it to work. Tune in as I break down the steps to give you the best chance of success at IUI. I’ll take you through what I typically do with my patients to give you insight into what you can expect! Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

If you're one of my patients you'll know which egg quality supplements and sperm quality supplements I want you to be on. I spell it out. I will tell you the doses too.  I also make my recommendations as far as which brands to get. But if you're not my patient, I want you to learn from this too. No matter where you live in the world, no matter which brands you have access to, there is a way for you to create your own egg (or sperm) quality regimen too.  If you want to hear it all, and get more information about improving your egg quality, Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

Would you like to learn how to get pregnant, The Egg Whisperer Way? What you learn from this show has the potential to change your life forever.  Ask yourself: What do I want? Be specific. ex) I’m 32 years old and I want to have a baby. I want to do it naturally. What is it going to take to get what I want? ex) It’s going to take knowing my fertility diagnosis first (enter the TUSHY Method),  having a healthy lifestyle, taking prenatal vitamins, getting preconception tests done, and having sex. Am I willing to do it? If you’re not willing to do the things to get what you want, then you have to change #1. If at 37 someone says they want three kids and then I ask them what it’s going to take to get what they want. Some people know what it will take. Others may not. Is your plan reasonable? Want to learn more? You can read the full article on my website. Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

In this episode, one of the questions I answer is from Vicky. She requested that I share my “supplement toolkit.” And, I’m always happy to recap the supplements that I believe are helpful in supporting fertility patients.  The three main supplements that I recommend on the show and to my patients to help improve egg quality are: NAD+, Pterostilbene, CoQ10 (which is pronounced Co-Que-ten) along with a great prenatal, vitamin D and fish oil. You can find my full answer to Vicky’s question, plus many others in this episode. To submit your own question to Dr. Aimee for a future episode of Ask The Egg Whisperer, click here.  Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School  

Last year in the United States a baby was born every 8 seconds. That‘s roughly 3.8 Million babies born last year alone! You don’t have to be a fertility doctor to know what that means. Millions of people just like you were trying to conceive. Research tells us that most couples conceive within six cycles of timed intercourse, but many others (roughly 10% of couples) are struggling with fertility. Here’s the funny thing about what I do. I want to teach you how NOT to be my patient. Of course, there are exceptions to that statement. But in general, I’d much prefer to share with you what I’ve learned about preparing for pregnancy in hopes that it makes your journey to parenthood easier. A journey that goes without needing to see me. Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

Sarah wrote in to Ask The Egg Whisperer, and she sent the following question, “I have done 12 embryo transfers over the past 2 years (failed due to several reasons). During the transfers, my lining always thickened nicely (minimum 9), I have never had a problem with thin lining. All my cycles were medicated and not natural FETs. However, for the past 2 cycles, my lining has been thin (doesn’t exceed 5). What could be the reason?” Uterine lining, and a thin lining can definitely be an issue. In cases like this, I encourage people to ask for  the official report from the hysteroscopy procedure and see if they might have done something called a DNC at the same time. They may have also done some sort of biopsy. An endometrial biopsy has a 1- 2% chance of causing uterine issues. So in a case like this, I would consider doing a saline sonogram to see what's going on. Look for a ban of scar tissue, and consider estrogen injections to thicken up your lining.  Ask for the reports because something's not adding up. It's really hard to imagine that you would go from 9 all the way down to 5 without anything causing it. Other possibilities are a low lying infection, scar tissue from the hysteroscopy, or body size change.  There's so many different strategies and ways to improve your lining if you're dealing with a thin lining. You've been through so much with your 12 embryo transfers. I wish you all the best, and I hope that your next transfer works. To submit your own question to Dr. Aimee for a future episode of Ask The Egg Whisperer, click here.  Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School

In this episode of Ask The Egg Whisperer, Maree writes in with this question,” Hi Dr Aimee!  Love your jokes and sense of humour. We are so lucky to have you as a positive beacon of hope on this fertility journey. I am 40 years old, my AMH is.46, and FSH is 8. At my first retrieval, we fertilized 2 eggs. One made it to day 5, no blast, the second blasted! But it was not genetically normal. Is it useful to get the embryo report from the lab even though the blastocyst wasn't genetically normal? Can the grading of the egg still be useful in learning more about my egg quality?” My answer is that it is helpful to get the embryo report. I like that Maree says that her embryo “blasted,” because when I email my own patients about blastocysts, I usually make the subject line “blast off!” Reaching the blastocyst milestone in IVF is a really good sign. In making a decision as to how many cycles to do for a patient who is 40 or over, I use blastoff and having a blastocyst is a sign that it's okay to keep going. Sometimes, it can take several cycles to even get one healthy embryo. My DIAMONDS mnemonic is helpful in this situation. Embryos are like diamonds: they're sparkling on the outside. Unfortunately, you really can't tell their implantation potential without either transferring or doing genetic testing, or a little bit of both because sometimes even an embryo that has normal chromosomes might not implant. D: Day your embryos were frozen. It’s very important to know whether it was a day, five, six or seven.  I: Implantation rate per embryo. If the embryo is tested, then you can calculate that rate.  A: did the embryo came back as abnormal?  M: is the embryo mosaic? Up to 40% of the time of a mosaic embryo can turn into a healthy live birth. So that's why I knowing if an embryo is mosaic or not is important. O: Official Reports. Be sure and get the reports from the lab and review with your doctor. N: Normal Embryos. Consider PGT testing to confirm that the embryo is chromosomally normal. D: Dreams Come True. Make sure that when you are growing embryos, you have enough to have the family size of your dreams. S: Sperm Matters To submit your own question to Dr. Aimee for a future episode of Ask The Egg Whisperer, click here.  Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School