The Lasting Trauma of Infertility (Published 2019)

Even when it ends with a healthy baby, a long struggle to conceive may exact a brutal toll.

A Medical Career, at a Cost: Infertility

Physicians are raising awareness of the reproductive toll that work stress, long hours, sleep deprivation and years of training can exact.

Before a ‘Classy Dinosaur’ Wedding Came Leukemia and I.V.F.

Kaitlin Flannery and John Mancini met in Palo Alto, Calif., and moved across the country together, until a shocking diagnosis meant they had to live apart for a while.

Does Stress Actually Affect Fertility? (Published 2020)

The key to conception is to ‘relax,’ some say, but the evidence isn’t quite so tidy.

Surgeons at Greater Risk of Pregnancy Loss, Study Finds

The demands of the profession appear to clash with the process of starting a family. “There’s a health risk in it.”

Opinion | I Did I.V.F. Without a Partner. It Shouldn’t Have Been So Hard.

Why Aziz Ansari based a plot in ‘Master of None’ on my journey to become a single mother.

The Truth About Pregnancy Over 40 (Published 2020)

More than 100,000 Americans give birth in their 40s each year, but what does that mean for the health of their pregnancies and their babies?

The Sperm-Count ‘Crisis’ Doesn’t Add Up

Reports of a decline in male fertility rely on flawed assumptions, a new study contends.