London, July 1: A new study has suggested that minor weight loss in obese women could boost their chances of getting pregnant.
Professor Bill Ledger, from the University of Sheffield, and colleagues said conducted a three-month study of 40 obese women who were not ovulating.
Many of them suffered from polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
The group’s average age was 29 and their body mass index (BMI) was around 40. Health service guidelines do not recommend IVF treatment for women with a BMI of above 30.
The women were given weight loss drugs to help them lose 5 percent of their body weight over a three-month period.
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Tags : infertility, obesity
This is the third of a four-part interview with Melissa Ford, author of Navigating the Land of IF: Understanding Infertility and Exploring Your Options. Melissa is also the author of the wildly popular blog, Stirrup Queens, the site many infertile people find as they search for information on infertility treatments, adoption (domestic, international, open, kinship), donor gametes, and childfree living.
Why would someone who is NOT experiencing infertility want to pick up this book?
To better understand someone they know who is experiencing infertility. I don’t know how many people who are not experiencing infertility will pick up this book, but that’s okay. The words are there for everyone to use who is experiencing infertility and they can pass them along in conversation with people outside the experience.
How different would your own IF journey have been if you’d had this book?
I probably would have felt less lonely. The exercises in the book I used to make decision and I included one of the real decision webs we made before we started treatments. And I took my sister’s advice to heart a lot and still do in living my life. But I wish I had known about the online community back then. It was small, but still existed. I wish I had known about blogs and read them.
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Tags : adoption, infertility
