The traditional family – consisting of a married, biological mother and father, and their 2 or 3 children (with assorted pets) all living in harmony in a single home – is increasingly less common.
Across Canada, 840 fewer babies would be admitted to neonatal intensive care units, 40 deaths would be avoided as well as 46 brain injuries and 42,400 days of NICU hospitalization if single embryo transfer during IVF were implemented. Au Canada, on éviterait l’admission aux soins intensifs de 840 bébés, le décès de 40 autres, 46 cas de dommages au cerveau et 42 400 jours d’hospitalisation aux soins intensifs des services de néonatalogie si le transfert d’un seul embryon au cours de la FIV devenait obligatoire.
On December 22nd, 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) made headlines as it announced its verdict on an appeal that had been outstanding for precisely 19 months.
“Yesterday was a very bad day, but then I reminded myself that implantation takes from 6 to 12 days and I might not have enough HCG in my system to show up yet… A very fine thread to grasp while holding a thimble of hope.”
Parents who have completed IVF often have a difficult decision to make: What should become of excess embryos created during IVF?
Have you ever wondered about your personal infertility risk? If not, you are certainly not alone.
Consider the following: our culture really does value words more than pictures. I think that’s actually true, but why would we value words so much and pictures so little? Well for a start, words are the tools of conversation and writing, and these left-brained sports earn us understanding, brownie points and, yes, even money. When did you last get paid for a picture that you drew?
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus was the title of an article which appeared in The Sun, a prominent New York paper back in 1897. In the article, a question was posed to the editor of The Sun by an eight-year-old girl named Virginia O'Hanlon, after her coroner father, Dr. Philip O’Hanlon, passed the buck when she inquired whether Santa really existed. Dr. O’Hanlon told his daughter, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so”.
On a hot summer’s afternoon back in 2006, I sat in my office thinking. It occurred to me that people were walking to raise funds for cancer, selling poppies for our veterans and wristbands for this and that disease. Why couldn’t we have a special day set aside for infertility? Oh my gosh, a week would be even better! And that, my friends, was the beginning of CIAW! ...
November 1, 2009 started out a little cool but got warmer and warmer as the sun came up and people started to come out to show their support. Registration for Portraits in the Park had participants filling in consent forms for their $20 photo sessions, but the feeling of togetherness was priceless...