Hysterectomy... Living without a womb and how to avoid losing the uterus At Creafam we try to preserve fertility, but this week we performed a 4.2 kilo hysterectomy, so Dr. Arturo Valdés and Psychologist [...]
Pets and fertility
Pets and fertility A few years ago, when I started working in the area of fertility, I was talking with a friend about her experience with infertility and [...]
Parents with HIV
Parents with HIV Thanks to modern medicines (retrovirals), zero-positive HIV patients can have a quality of life equal to that of a healthy person... A new opportunity for [...]
Stress and fertility
Stress and fertility Although it is not known exactly how stress affects a couple's fertility, it is known that reducing stress improves quality of life during assisted reproductive [...]
Assisted reproduction and the posthumous child
Assisted reproduction and the posthumous child Recently a married woman came to our institution, her husband was brain dead and they were going to disconnect him from the [...]
Preparing to have twins
Preparing to have twins Thanks to fertility treatments you are pregnant with twins, there may be two or more, but don't worry, we have some recommendations that will [...]
Puerperium or quarantine
Puerperium or quarantine The puerperium is the time that elapses from when you expel the placenta or delivery until the reproductive system returns to its normal state. [...]
Benefits of taking a birth preparation course
Benefits of taking a birth preparation course We want all our mothers to face the day of birth in the most natural and calm way. At [...]
I am at my most fertile age… But I don’t want to be a mom yet
I am at my most fertile age... But I don't want to be a mom yet What does it mean to be fully realized? These days we [...]
Tell our child that he/she is product of a donation?
How do we tell our child that he/she is the product of a donation? Silence, apparently, is easier to handle than the truth, but the easiest is not [...]
Sexual desire and infertility
Sexual desire and infertility “When I had my second abortion, many things changed. There was pain, insecurity, vulnerability, many different feelings manifested in me and they all coincided in [...]
I have fertility problems. Can I avoid feeling hurt and hurting others?
I have fertility problems. Can I avoid feeling hurt and hurting others? We live surrounded by The Others: All those acquaintances who have no idea what it [...]
Emotional support when there are reproductive difficulties
Emotional support when there are reproductive difficulties Contraceptive methods have allowed couples to decide when to have children, however, being able to control contraception does not mean [...]