What a Woman Should Know About Her Cervical Health and Fertility

If you are a woman, your cervix is that unique donut-shaped canal linking your uterus to your vagina. It is approximately 4 cm long and when you are ready for childbirth, will open to 10 cm, allowing your baby safe passage into the world. As you can imagine, your cervix's healthy function is crucial to fertility and childbirth. Located at... read more »

Giving Yourself the Gift of Fertility Preservation Now for Healthy Conception Later

Sometimes women have circumstances where they want to set aside their eggs now to create a pregnancy at a later date, through a process called fertility preservation. This is a way to extend your fertility window and provide fertility options in the future. The reason for doing this is varied; sometimes a medical condition like cancer can lead to the... read more »

Conceiving despite Unexplained Infertility

Are you experiencing infertility but don't know why? Unexplained infertility means infertility with no known cause and that doctors can't tell you what is creating this condition at this moment. Considering that fertilization, embryo development, and implantation are highly complex biological processes, it's understandable that 15% of couples trying to conceive may face some known or unknown barrier.   Most Common... read more »

Spread Hope by Sharing National Infertility Awareness for People Dealing With the Struggles of Infertility

Infertility affects more than 50 million couples every day worldwide. Like many, we observe National Infertility Awareness Week from April 24-30. We encourage anyone struggling with infertility to take this time to reflect and share their thoughts and experiences around infertility to help others realize they aren't alone in this. Across the globe, people are coping with fertility issues, so... read more »

Make Your Two-Week Wait More Enjoyable!

So you are in a fertility treatment cycle experiencing the two-week wait (10-14 days)! Congratulations! This is the time between your timed intercourse,  insemination or embryo transfer.  The only way to know if you are pregnant is having a sensitive pregnancy test (blood draw) which will help quell your mental, emotional and physical worries about whether you are indeed pregnant! But... read more »

Join Us in Recognizing Endometriosis Awareness Month This March

Every March, our Utah Fertility Center team recognizes Endometriosis Awareness Month, which was created in 1993 by the Endometriosis Association. The goal is to shine a light on this condition which impacts around 200 million women around the world as well as one out of every 10 women in the U.S. In July of 2020, the U.S. House of Representatives... read more »

Benefits of Fertility Support

Planning to add children to your family is an exciting time but can lead to frustration when pregnancy does not easily occur. As infertility specialists, we understand that facing infertility often comes unexpectedly. We recognize that seeing a fertility specialist is not on most peoples wish list, but we are happy we can offer solutions to restore your family building... read more »

The Power of Egg Donation:

Egg donation has become a heartfelt way to contribute to families going through infertility treatment. There are a variety of reasons an individual may need to use an egg donor and for this reason, Utah Fertility Center provides options. While egg donation can create immense hope and gratitude for a family who may have spent years prior trying to conceive,... read more »

Practical Solutions For Secondary Infertility

There are two kinds of infertility for women - primary and secondary. Primary infertility is when a woman can't get pregnant, after trying for a year without using contraception, or six months if she is over 35. Secondary infertility can arise in women if they have had one or more successful pregnancies but can't seem to get pregnant again. Utah... read more »

Helping Another Family Conceive With the Gift of an Egg Donation

November is a time of reflection, of giving and being thankful. As a woman, did you know that you can donate your eggs in the same way you can donate blood, plasma or bone marrow? Giving the gift of creating a life isn't all that different from giving the gift of saving a life. Both give something priceless to people... read more »