Steven asks…
Progesterone levels dropping? Was your pregnancy ok?
My progesterone was at 16.8, the doctor told me to take the prometrium so it would go to 20, instead it dropped to 12. So reading all the info I did on the pill form of progesterone not being so good, I took my progesterone muscle injections today, to bring up my levels, it was a left over prescription from IVF. Anyway this pregnancy was natural. Have you ever had your levels drop, and still have a succesful pregnancy.
Michelle answers:
Get progesterone suppositories instead and make sure to use them for full 12 weeks (do NOT stop earlier). That is the most natural form possible and most effective. Most important do not STOP using progesterone if you start. So if you got the injection today, get the progesterone suppositories (or injection) asap to continue taking progesterone tomorrow and every day till first trimester is over.
Used suppositories for two pregnancies till 12 weeks (both successful). Also used suppositories for the one pregnancy that resulted in miscarriage as soon as stopped taking progesterone (at 10 weeks or so) on doctor’s bad advice. The placenta takes over production of progesterone anywhere from 9-12 weeks, so it is important to continue taking them until placenta fully takes over.
Good luck.
James asks…
May I have a baby? (I’m not married)?
I really love to have a baby , I’m 19 and I’m not married. Which one do you think is better, an IVF or a natural copulate with my bf? or maybe I should forget about it!
Michelle answers:
I suggest you wait, 19 is very young to have a baby. Enjoy your life a bit and in 5 years of so when you are established financially and your life is set, have a baby they bring great happiness. But until then, be as financially and emotionally stable as you can to prepare yourself for motherhood.
Robert asks…
whats the point of hybrid embryos if they’re only going to use 0.1% of the DNA?
personally its all a bit frankenstein to me
not only that but its not ‘natural‘, don’t get me wrong i understand IVF etc etc, but not this?
Michelle answers:
I’m not sure what you mean. I’d think that a hybrid would use 100% of it’s DNA.
Do you mean adding 0.1% of one species’ DNA to another species? That 0.1% can code for a lot. Take hybrid goats for example. A company (Genzyme, I think) has inserted human genes (into a goat) for a certain growth factor that’s deficient in a disease. As a result, the hybrid goat now produces the growth factor, which can be isolated from the goat’s milk and used as a pharmaceutical.
I don’t really see it as a Frankenstein situation. Inserting a few human genes into another animal would not make it more ‘human’ except on the most basic molecular level… And mammals are already so similar on that basic level that the difference would be negligible. Adding too much genetic material would likely result in a non-viable organism, so I don’t think we have to worry too much about an extreme hybrid with the research that’s currently going on.
Maria asks…
why do people hate octomom?
i’ve never really know much about her, but i heard on the news that a doctor that did IVF got his license revoked.
where her octuplets not natural, did she ask for 8 babys to get a tv show or something?
Michelle answers:
She got all her 14 children through IVF or something. This doctor whose license is revoked helped her with IVF when he knew she already had 6 children, 1 or 2 of them need a little special need. She did not have a job, how could she work with 6 kids, and as a doctor shouldn’t have done that even though octomom asked for it. The octomom is simply crazy, she said she just wants babies. Before she became publicly known she lived in a 2 bedroom house and survived on food stamps. Now who is paying for taking care of the babies, tax payers. At the same time what kind of love and attention the kids would get out of such a household.
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