Christie Olsen

Self Match Surrogacy

Sep 23 2023

Are you Considering a Self Match Surrogacy?

Should I Self Match with a Gestational Carrier or Parents-to-be?   Pros, cons, and considerations What is a Self-match with a gestational carrier? Sometimes, the parents-to-be have a sibling, friend, co-worker, ...
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Example of triple layer uterine lining Frozen Embryo transfer

Sep 23 2023

Natural Cycle FET (Frozen Embryo Transfer)

Learn about the options for preparing your uterus for a FET (Frozen Embryo transfer). As a women's health nurse practitioner working in the IVF and surrogacy world since 2007, I ...
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Oct 11 2022

Unexpected Outcomes with Surrogacy – Ashley

How often are IVF clinics or surrogacy/donor agencies talking about the unexpected outcomes that happen? Not too often, which is surprising given that the average success rate for an IVF ...
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IVF monitoring ultrasound

Sep 9 2022

IVF Monitoring in Wisconsin

REMOTE MONITORING FOR IVF AND FET CYCLES If you have chosen an IVF clinic out of the Madison area, but need local monitoring near you for your IVF or FET ...
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Sep 8 2022

IVF Success: what is your chance?

Calculate your chance of a live birth if doing IVF. The Center for Disease Control tracks the IVF success rates for clinics across the country.  To help people understand their ...
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Apr 25 2022

Surrogates! You don’t need to transfer two embryos.

As Forward Fertility as your agency, our parents-to-be plan to transfer one embryo at a time. This is not always the case at every agency or IVF clinic. Why transfer ...
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Apr 21 2022

Be a surrogate. Understand your chance of success.

Whether you are trying to have a baby yourself or you are a surrogate helping a family form, many people don’t take the time or know how to  understand how ...
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Feb 18 2022

Surrogate vs. Gestational carrier – What is the difference?

So many terms!! What do they all mean? Is there a difference? Surrogate mother, gestational carrier, true surrogate, traditional surrogate, gestational surrogate, surromom, surrogate. Carrying a Baby for Someone Else. ...
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