A Path to Motherhood
When my husband and I started trying for a baby we were young, healthy and hopeful. Everybody in my family got pregnant. Nobody ever seemed to have trouble. I would be a mama before I knew it. We tried for a year before getting our first positive pregnancy test- on my birthday too! We told [...]
Designer Babies or Healthy, Loving Families? By Carolyn Keating, Nurse Practitioner
A number of years ago, a couple came into the fertility practice where I worked. They were not infertile and in fact had quite easily conceived a beautiful baby girl. This child was born perfect in every way except one- she carried a lethal genetic defect that began to show symptoms when she was about [...]
In The News
Just in cased you missed it, our fabulous docs here at PREG have been in the news quite a bit lately! Dr. Payne was featured on Fox 21 News discussing diet and male infertility. Dr. Payne was again featured in an article by the South Carolina Medical Association about “White Coat Wednesdays” at the State [...]
From His Side (a guest blog by a counselor who has faced the trials of infertility)
I often find myself looking back to my youth and thinking of what my ideal vision of my future looked like. College, a great job, wife, kids and that nice house with a picket fence. Visions of kids playing in the yard, soccer games and those glorious cookouts with neighbors and friends. Grandma and Grandpa playing [...]
A Patient’s Journey With Recurrent Miscarriage
Four years ago, God blessed my husband, JJ, and I with the most precious gift of a baby boy, Bryce. We conceived quickly and were thankful for a healthy pregnancy and delivery. Everything seemed just perfect. Little did we know that the next few years would be full of heartache, pain, and hopelessness as God [...]
