CONSTITUIONAL AMENDEMNT IN MISSISSIPPI COULD HAVE NEGATIVE IMPACT ON INVITRO-FERTILIZATION

A constitutional amendment in Mississippi, set to come up for a vote on November 8,  could have negative impact on invitro-fertilization.

This amendment could spread to at least twelve States, including Florida and Ohio and seeks to classify a fertilized human egg as a legal person, thus making abortion and some forms of birth control (like the morning after pill) murder.

For more, please visit the link below:-

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/24/personhood-ballot-initiative-in-mississippi-could-ban-some-ivf-practices.html

From the article:-

“As Hines explains, for IVF to have a decent chance of success, doctors have to try to fertilize more eggs than they intend to implant. “A basic problem in IVF is that we cannot look at an egg and determine that egg will get you pregnant,” he says. “In order to enhance the pregnancy rate, we stimulate the patient and take all the eggs that we can get and combine those with sperm. Then the eggs and the sperm determine which ones are actually going to lead to pregnancy. Some will not fertilize. Some will not become embryos, and some embryos will not progress."

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ENDOMETRIOSIS AND TRYING TO CONCEIVE

Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him.

Children born to a young man are like sharp arrows in a warrior’s hand

Psalm 127: 3 & 4

"HOPE MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE"

Padma Lakshmi,, model, actress and host of ‘Top Chef ‘on Bravo, opens up about her years of struggles with endometriosis, to co-host Meredith Vierra on the Today Show, along with chief medical correspondent, Dr. Nancy Snyderman. Padma did several surgeries, before becoming pregnant last year and giving birth to her miracle baby girl, in February of this year, after being told that she would never get pregnant naturally. Padma says, looking at her daughter, shortly after giving birth, "I can't beleive she is actually here.......thank you for my daughter."

See video clip of interview at:-

 http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/37127530#37127530

Endometriosis affects one in ten women and is one of the leading causes of infertility. It’s symptoms include:-

• Irregular, heavy and periods 
• Backache
• Pelvic Pain 
• Infertility

The good news is, there are treatments available to help you conceive and some of these are:-

• Using birth control pills or the fertility drug, Clomiphene Citrate (Clomid) to regulate your periods.
• Laparoscopy to remove tissues which causes the condition.

Endometriosis does not mean that you will never get pregnant, it is just important that you get diagnosed early, listen to your body when it is telling you that something is wrong and seek the necessary help soon, so that your dreams to conceive, can come through earlier.

 Be encouraged and until next time, keep clinging to hope.