Wow, it’s been a WHOLE year since my last blog.
I have been busy recruiting men for my sperm and recurrent pregnancy loss study. WE still need more willing men. Here is my lab website to find out more: Mak lab
With the craziness happening in federal funding I am thankful that my study is continuing and it will make a difference to couples with recurrent pregnancy loss.
I have been keeping busy with doing other research related to recurrent pregnancy loss. My team and I published a paper in Fertility and Sterility (one of our top journals in our field) where I ask the research question: Do women with recurrent pregnancy loss have higher risk pregnancies after undergoing IVF and frozen embryo transfer than women without recurrent pregnancy loss? Why did I choose this question? Prior studies show that women with recurrent pregnancy loss may have increase risk of preterm delivery and low birthweight infants but these studies involved women conceiving naturally. Therefore, I thought it would be interesting to look at women with RPL undergoing IVF and their pregnancies.
Our study used data collected by IVF clinics around the country and submitted to the Society of Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) database. We compared the birth outcomes of 3,229 women with RPL who underwent their first frozen embryo transfer to birth outcome of 1,408 women who had undergone a prior tubal ligation (fertile and no RPL). The bottom line is that we did not find any increase in preterm delivery or low birthweight in babies born to women with RPL undergoing their first frozen embryo transfer. Here is link to journal post: