Medically reviewed by Dr. Molina Dayal, MD, board-certified reproductive endocrinologist. This week is National Infertility Awareness Week (#NIAW2022) and a good time to remind the many hopeful parents across St. Louis that it’s okay to have hope. If you’ve been trying to get or stay pregnant for 6-12 months without success, it might be time to speak to a fertility specialist. For many, separating facts and feelings can be hard when it comes to understanding infertility and h

Medically reviewed by Dr. Maureen Schulte, MD, board-certified reproductive endocrinologist. From Da Vinci to Rembrandt and from Jackson Pollock to Jean-Michel Basquiat visual art has helped express emotions and feelings that are often too hard to share in words. Sometimes art expresses sadness and joy and sometimes captures very special and small moments in our lives that have big meaning. ART, or assisted reproductive technology, is a broad term for a wide number of differ

Medically reviewed by Dr. Molina Dayal, MD, board-certified reproductive endocrinologist. As the only female-owned, all-female fertility center in Saint Louis, all of us at STL Fertility are very sensitive to the many accomplishments that women have made in science and medicine. Still, according to a study published in the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics in 2020, although women account for half the reproductive endocrinology academics, they are still underrepres