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The AFA's Online Library - Fact Sheets

Here you'll find a rich resource of materials from throughout the site collected in one central location. All of our fact sheets and brochures are here, listed according to topic. Check back often, as the library is frequently updated.

• Infertility Prevention

  • Age and Female Fertility
    
  • Infertility Prevention
    
  • No More Excuses
    
  • Preventable Infertility & The STI Link
    

• Trying to Conceive

  • A Baby, Maybe?
    
  • Bioethics and the Ethical Treatment of the Infertile
    
  • Coping With Infertility
    
  • Diagnosis and Treatment of INfertility: Am I Covered?
    
  • Diagnosis and Treatment of PCOS
    
  • Double Jeopardy: Infertility and Pregnancy Loss – Part I
    
  • Double Jeopardy: Infertility and Pregnancy Loss – Part II
    
  • EMBRYO DISPOSITION AND DIVORCE
    
  • Fertility Concepts and Complementary Medicine: Where They Meet
    
  • Fertility Drugs I: Clomiphene Citrate
    
  • Fertility Drugs II: Injectable Gonadotropins
    
  • Fertility Treatment Options for Single Patients and Same Sex Couples
    
  • First Day Jitters
    
  • First Steps to a Family
    
  • Get Thee To A Urologist!
    
  • Important Questions for Your Doctor
    
  • Infertility Risk Assessment
    
  • Informed Consent and the Flood of Forms
    
  • It's In The Male
    
  • Lifestyles of the Fit and Fertile
    
  • Maintaining Friendships during Infertility Treatments
    
  • Male Infertility and Stress
    
  • Optimizing Your Health Prior to Pregnancy
    
  • Over-The-Counter Intuition
    
  • Pros and Cons of Disclosing Fertility Treatment to Others
    
  • Psychological Issues in Male Factor Infertility
    
  • Purchasing Fertility Medications on the Internet
    
  • Questions and Conflicts
    
  • Resilience
    
  • Sex Myths
    
  • Single Embryo Transfer: Why Not Put All Your Eggs In One Basket?
    
  • Special Considerations In Choosing an IVF Practice
    
  • Sperm Donation – How to Protect You & Your Family from Legal Complications
    
  • Stressed for Success
    
  • Swimming Toward Conception: The Semen Analysis
    
  • The American Fertility Association’s Top Ten Fertility Myths
    
  • The Basic Facts about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
    
  • The Dirty Dozen
    
  • The Use of Psychiatric Medication During Conception Attempts
    
  • Top Ten Fertility Myths
    
  • Understanding Your Most Fertile Time
    
  • What can we do about the cost of fertility treatment in a recession?
    
  • What is progesterone?
    
  • Who's Infertile? Us?
    
  • Worked Up Over the Infertility Workup?
    

  • Fertility Medications and Over The Counter Options

    • Fertility Drugs I: Clomiphene Citrate
      
    • Fertility Drugs II: Injectable Gonadotropins
      
    • Over-The-Counter Intuition
      
    • Purchasing Fertility Medications on the Internet
      
    • The Dirty Dozen
      
    • What is progesterone?
      

  • Insurance Coverage

    • Diagnosis and Treatment of INfertility: Am I Covered?
      

  • The Male Factor

    • Get Thee To A Urologist!
      
    • It's In The Male
      
    • Male Infertility and Stress
      
    • Psychological Issues in Male Factor Infertility
      
    • Sperm Donation – How to Protect You & Your Family from Legal Complications
      
    • Swimming Toward Conception: The Semen Analysis
      

  • The Work Up, Procedures & Stress

    • A Baby, Maybe?
      
    • Bioethics and the Ethical Treatment of the Infertile
      
    • Coping With Infertility
      
    • First Day Jitters
      
    • First Steps to a Family
      
    • Important Questions for Your Doctor
      
    • Infertility Risk Assessment
      
    • Informed Consent and the Flood of Forms
      
    • Lifestyles of the Fit and Fertile
      
    • Maintaining Friendships during Infertility Treatments
      
    • Pros and Cons of Disclosing Fertility Treatment to Others
      
    • Questions and Conflicts
      
    • Single Embryo Transfer: Why Not Put All Your Eggs In One Basket?
      
    • Special Considerations In Choosing an IVF Practice
      
    • Stressed for Success
      
    • Understanding Your Most Fertile Time
      
    • Who's Infertile? Us?
      
    • Worked Up Over the Infertility Workup?
      

• Adoption

  • Adopting an Older Child from Foster Care
    
  • Affording Your Adoption
    
  • Caretaking Your Child’s Adoption
    
  • Choices, Challenges, and Tensions: Perspectives of Lesbian Prospective Adoptive Parents
    
  • Conquering Birthmother Fears
    
  • Could My Adopted Child Have an Attachment Disorder?
    
  • Every Child Is Adoptable
    
  • EVOLUTION of THE “DEAR BIRTHMOTHER LETTER”
    
  • Foster Care Adoption Today
    
  • Help Wanted
    
  • Independent Adoption as an Option
    
  • International Adoption Update
    
  • Mothers Day 2010
    
  • Our Kids Aren’t Perfect...Nor Are Their Parents
    
  • Positive Adoption Language: Why It’s So Important
    
  • Shifting Gears: The Adoption Option
    
  • Ten Myths about Adoption
    
  • The Reluctant Spouse
    
  • The Role of the Pediatrician in the Adoption Process: Before, During and After an Adoption
    
  • The Transition from Infertility to Adoption: Perceptions of Lesbian and Heterosexual Couples
    
  • Transracial Adoption: It Will Change Your Family Forever
    
  • You’ve decided to adopt independently….Now what?
    

• Third Party Reproduction

  • A “Meeting of the Minds” Behind Every Successful Surrogacy Arrangement
    
  • A Must - Research Your Surrogacy and Egg Donation Agency
    
  • Building Healthy Donor Conceived Families
    
  • Embryo Donation -- Prospective Donors
    
  • Embryo Donation -- Prospective Recipients
    
  • GESTATIONAL SURROGACY IN ILLINOIS
    
  • Getting Started with Egg Donation: First Decisions
    
  • Librarians at a Loss for Helping Donor Offspring
    
  • Myth Busters on Egg Donation
    
  • Out of the Dish
    
  • Raising Money for Your Own Fertility Procedures Through Donation – Should it be Allowed?
    
  • Surrogacy Agreement Talking Points: An Attorney’s thoughts on Negotiating your Surrogacy Agreement
    
  • Surrogacy: Keys to Building a Successful Surrogate, Couple Relationship - Part I
    
  • Surrogacy: Keys to Building a Successful Surrogate, Couple Relationship Part II
    
  • Talking With Children About Ovum Donation 2009
    
  • The Frozen Embryo Dilemma
    
  • What to Expect When Expecting…A Donor Child
    

• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Support

  • ADOPTION IS A CHOICE FOR THE LGBT COMMUNITY
    
  • Choices, Challenges, and Tensions: Perspectives of Lesbian Prospective Adoptive Parents
    
  • Fertility Treatment Options for Lesbian Women
    
  • Fertility Treatment Options for Single Patients and Same Sex Couples
    
  • Gay Man, Gay Dad: Gay Men Can Become Fathers
    
  • HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT KIDS
    
  • Legal Issues for the LGBT Community: Forming Your Family Through Assisted Reproduction
    
  • Lesbian Pregnancy: Donor Insemination
    
  • Marriage Equality
    
  • MY JOURNEY to PARENTHOOD
    
  • My Two Dads, My Two Moms: Insights on Gay and Lesbian Family Building
    
  • S A M E - S E X P A R E N T H O O D : A GRANDPARENT’S PERSPECTIVE
    
  • Surrogacy: Creating Your Family the “Old Fashioned” Way
    
  • The Transition from Infertility to Adoption: Perceptions of Lesbian and Heterosexual Couples
    
  • We Want to Have a Baby Some Day: Eric and Doug’s Story
    

• Milestones

  • Isn’t that what family is all about?
    
  • My Story
    

• FAQs That Matter To You

  • Connect's December Edition of An Expert Opinion
    
  • Connect's January 2010 Edition of An Expert Opinion
    
  • Connect's November Edition of An Expert Opinion
    
  • Connect's October Editional of An Expert Opinion
    

• After Infertility

  • A DOZEN MYTHS of PARENTING AFTER INFERTILITY
    
  • Parenting After Infertility
    
  • PART II: THE PROS and CONS of DISCLOSURE
    
  • THE DISCLOSURE DILEMMA - When Does it Begin?
    
  • WHAT does NORMAL MEAN to CHILDREN of IVF?
    

• Supplements

  • Chicago Tribune: Fertility & Pregnancy
    
  • The AFA Quarterly - Summer 2009
    
  • The AFA Quarterly - Winter 2009
    
  • The AFA Quarterly Spring 2009
    
  • USA Today - Fertility & Pregnancy
    
  • Wall Street Journal Infertility - Your Guide to Creating a Healthy Family
    
  • Wall Street Journal: Infertility - Your Guide to Reproductive Health
    

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