On top of everything else that has been happening around here, I found out on Monday that my sister had a miscarriage on Friday of last week. I spoke with her on Monday and she is doing well, thank God. Strangely enough my sister lost the baby at about the same time that Malky did (7 weeks or so).
A bill in the New Hampshire House of Representatives to expand insurance coverage for infertility failed today by a vote of 237-115.
Rep. Tara Reardon, D-Concord, said, “There are no limiting parameters in this bill,” such as the number of times a woman can attempt treatment and an age limitation.
Reardon called it “a very expensive mandate to benefit a few and dramatically change the insurance market.” She said the costs would be at a level “the market can’t afford to bear.”
I’m sure that this is the argument that they used when trying to not have state funded abortions.
I’m sure that Resolve worked their tails off on this and it is a disappointing result.
What really gets to me is that people that are supposedly “pro-choice” aren’t really interested in a woman’s right to choose to have a child if they can’t have one through normal means.
In this action packed episode Malky and I go over some listener emails about the UK insurance, the news, and then an update about how we’re doing post miscarriage.
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Here is another article about how the PAWP protein and how it actually works in relation to the fertility process. Here’s the money shot:
PAWP’s role is one of the earliest reproduction requirements, he said. The protein is located inside of the sperm head and separates from the sperm shortly after the sperm fuses with the egg cell. PAWP activates the fertilized egg to divide and become an embryo, and triggers a defense mechanism that stops additional sperm from penetrating the egg cell.
As you can see, this is an important step and with out this protein functioning properly, things are not as they should be. If this study can achieve something if and when they progress to human testing, it is going to be a major breakthrough.
Well, after the conclusion of a successful business trip yesterday, I started my journey from Cincinnati back to Dayton (why did I fly into Dayton I hear you ask? It’s because flights directly into Cincinnati are obscenely expensive. Screw you Delta!). I was on the 8:00pm flight but I thought I may be able to fly stand by and catch the earlier flight. About 3 miles out from the airport, I get a call from USAirways (which my mother wisely renamed Useless Airways) that my flight was cancelled and they had booked me on the next flight out which is 6:55am Friday morning. I ask the lady if I can try and get on the earlier flight. She said that I could, but they were already over booked by 5 people. I try to get on the flight, but I can’t. I head off to the nearest Holiday Inn and get a room and they give me a distressed traveler’s rate which is about $30 off the regular rate, got a 4:15am wake up call and went to bed.
This morning, I get my wake up call and look out the window. Not surprisingly, it is raining. Not only is it raining, there is thunder and lightning too. I make the three mile drive to the airport in the rain and fog and finally make it to the airport and to my gate. As I write this it is still raining but I am sitting next to a JetBlue employee (who is flying to New York to go to work) and he tells me that they will be taking off. So hopefully I’ll be boarding off in a few minutes.
Malky and I talked about this subject the first time that we did a news segment and I thought that the study was flawed for several reasons. Well, there seems to be another study showing the same results. However, as Engadget points out:
There are studies that show cellular radiation does indeed heat up human tissue, but the level is so low that any health impact is non-existent or negligible.
The jury is still out on this and there are calls for more in depth studies, so stay tuned for further developments.
According to a new study, it seems that a specific protein could help fertility due to what it does in the fertilization process.
Understanding of the PAWP protein is extremely important for fertility purposes and families wanting children. Where there are low levels of this protein, fertilization doesn’t function properly. Therefore, regulation of this protein may increase the chances of pregnancy. Additional doses of the protein would be included during intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) – when a single sperm is injected directly into an egg cell. ICSI is the most commonly used technique to overcome male infertility problems
It looks promising.
As I think that we all can attest to, suffering from infertility is stressful and it’s not cheap either. It looks like there is some help on the way to defray some of the costs that come with IVF by way of a non profit organization called Angels of Hope. Not only are they helping with IVF but they are also looking to help with the loss of a child as well. According to the article the grant has not been given out yet since no one has applied. If you need some help with the IVF costs, you may want to contact them.
We’ve added to new blog post category called “infertility news”. We’ll be posting interesting news there that we find about infertility related subjects and we’ll then talk about them on the podcast. I hope to inaugurate the new category with a post later today. Enjoy!
Marci, one of our faithful listeners (and a friend of mine), just IM’d me with an even better title for the episode 16 “it’s my podcast and I’ll cry if I want to”. The perils of coming up with titles late at night…
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