Fertility Counseling

Jill Blakeway at YinOva Center
Www.yinovacenter.com
80 E. 11th St. Suite 407
NY, NY
212-533-2255
106 Angell Hill Road
Chatham NY 12037
518- 392.4555
$125 for first session; $95 thereafter. An acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist, Blakeway specializes in pediatrics and women's conditions, including infertility, PMS, morning sickness and gynecological disorders.

She was written up in the NYTimes Sunday Magazine on October 16, 2005 for being a top fertility specialist. From the article: 'Jill is a fertility goddess,'' says Marisa Schwartz, a 39-year-old Brooklyn-based teacher who conceived two sons under Blakeway's care after trying unsuccessfully for five years.

Clementine Midwifery
Stacey Rees & Abby Howe-Heyman
514 9th Street (at 8th Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11215
646.519.7209
info@clementinemidwifery.com
www.clementinemidwifery.com
We offer consultations to teach women to recognize signs of ovulation in order to maximize fertility. We also provide iui services and welcome gay and straight women who want to become pregnant through iui.

Noah Rubinstein at Longevity Health 
www.longevityhealth.org
166 Fifth Avenue, Second Floor
New York, N.Y. 10010;
(212)675-9355 ;
$85 a session (a second office is in Chatham, N.Y.; 518-392-4555).

"This handsome ex-paramedic studied acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in both China and the United States and treats everything from insomnia to migraines to men's infertility and back and neck pain. He's married to another top acupuncturist, Jill Blakeway."
-NYTimes article, October 2005 for top services in NYC.

Dr. Rong-Bao Lu
221-227 Canal Street
New York, New York
212-966-2178

He has been written up in the NY Times.  He is a licensed MD in this country and he integrates chinese practices like herbs and acupuncture for fertility and other things as well.  He has some sort of specific affiliation with a fertility center at Columbia, and he works with patients at other fertility clinics.  He would probably work with you however you want to go, but it is my understanding that it's good to give the herbs and acupuncture a little time to do their thing before initiating a round of ivf.  Good luck!
-Liza

The Berkely Center for Reproductive Wellness and Women's Health www.acupuncturecenter.com/index.htm 16 E. 40th Street 2nd Floor NY, NY 10016 212-685-0985 The Berkely Center offers: acupuncture, holistic and nutritional health, massage therapy, yoga, medical fitness, hypnotherapy, herbal medicine and meditation.

The Berkley Center really raised my fertility-awareness. It helped educate me on what tests my husband needed to run to figure out what was going on with our fertilty. It's very easy to get totally stressed out by the whole process but accupuncture it increadibly relaxing. I will warn you that it is not cheap but I can say that I am now 7 months pregnant.
- Amanda

New York University Program for In Vitro Fertilization, Reproductive Surgery and Infertility
http://nyuivf.med.nyu.edu/
660 First Ave (at 38th St)
NY, NY 10016

From "Child" Magazine article by Karen Cicero in 2004. NY-Pres was named #4 in the country.

• Number of ART cycles and transfers in 2002: 1,362

• Percentage of ART cycles from non-donor fresh embryos resulting in live births in 2002: 45% (under age 35), 42% (ages 35-37), 24% (ages 38-40), 17% (ages 41-42)

• Sees many difficult cases; about 70% of patients have failed at least one IVF cycle elsewhere

• Offers a patient library equipped with computers

• Is developing an egg-freezing program

Thirteen years ago, Jamie Grifo, M.D., Ph.D., was the first fertility specialist in the U.S. to successfully perform pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), the screening of an embryo for a specific inherited condition, such as cystic fibrosis. "It's heartbreaking to talk to couples whose children have died from a genetic disease," says Dr. Grifo, director of the division of Reproductive Endocrinology at New York University. "They tell me they couldn't go through it again -- all they want is a healthy baby."

Dr. Grifo, who has been at NYU for the last 10 years and did his early work with PGD at Yale and Cornell, has begun to apply the technique to women who have suffered recurrent miscarriages. "We're searching for abnormalities in chromosomal numbers, and often we find them," he explains. "Last year, I started one of my patients, who had gone though five miscarriages, on an IVF cycle. She produced 11 eggs, which fertilized. When we checked them, we found that only two were normal. We put both back, one implanted, and she gave birth recently."

In fact, more than 70 babies have been born to NYU clients using the technique -- which involves making a hole in the outer coating of the embryo and removing a single cell for analysis -- and the clinical-pregnancy rate per cycle is about 40%. "If done properly, it really doesn't make the embryo much less likely to implant," he says. What about future consequences? Although long-term effects are still unknown, a recent study of 754 PGD babies suggests that they're no more likely to have birth defects than children conceived conventionally.

The Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill-Cornell Medical Center, New York City
505 East 70th Street, 3rd Floor
New York 10021
212-746-1762

From "Child" Magazine article by Karen Cicero in 2004. NY-Pres was named #2 in the country.       

• Number of ART cycles and transfers in 2002: 2,012

• Percentage of ART cycles from non-donor fresh embryos resulting in live births in 2002: 48% (under age 35), 43% (ages 35-37), 30% (ages 38-40), 18% (ages 41-42)

• Is one of the most experienced centers in the U.S., with 11,000-plus babies born through conventional IVF and 4,000 through ICSI -- a technique that injects a single sperm into an egg; ICSI, invented by the center's lab director, is a must for couples with severe male factor infertility

• Specializes in preserving fertility in cancer patients

• Performed the first genetic testing on embryos for sickle cell anemia and retinoblastoma, an inherited eye cancer

• Priding themselves on a difficult caseload, doctors at The Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility (CRMI) conduct more than one-third of their IVF cycles on patients who have had two or more failed attempts at other clinics. "Other fertility specialists send us their patients who haven't gotten pregnant," says the clinic's director, Zev Rosenwaks, M.D.

  Because many couples who have experienced several unsuccessful cycles want to put back more embryos than they did on the first few tries, the center's triplets rate in women ages 35 to 37 is the highest of our top 10. But its live-birth rate using non-donor fresh embryos is remarkable: 30% to 70% above the national average, depending on the woman's age. How is that possible? In a word: research. Since 2002, the center has published more than 200 studies in medical journals -- the most of our survey. Among them: autologous human endometrial co-culture, which means growing a couple's embryos on a woman's endometrial cells instead of in the standard IVF liquid.

  Before starting an IVF cycle, a woman undergoes an endometrial biopsy, in which a small piece of her uterine lining is removed. The sample is frozen until the next month, when the woman's eggs are retrieved, fertilized, and put on her endometrial cells to grow. A study by CRMI researchers on 1,000-plus patients, who on average had three failed IVF attempts, found the technique improved embryo quality and resulted in an impressive clinical pregnancy rate of 42%.

Comments

[amanda]

The Berkley Center really raised my fertility-awareness. It helped educate me on what tests my husband needed to run to figure out what was going on with our fertilty. It's very easy to get totally stressed out by the whole process but accupuncture it increadibly relaxing. I will warn you that it is not cheap but I can say that I am now 7 months pregnant.