I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very happy, peaceful, and healthy holiday season! 2009 has brought some of you closer to your family goals. We share in your joy and wish you continued happiness. For those of you whose goal has not yet been realized, we wish for you a season filled with hope and a renewed sense of optimism for 2010.

Take care and be well,

David Youran
Director and Founder

During this month, we are offering special pricing on massage at IRA. You can enjoy the benefits of touch through our soothing massage for just $70 a session, or two sessions for $65 each, or three sessions for $60 each.

Provide a gift of wellness and relaxation for your loved one, or pamper yourself with relaxation and rejuvenation. Massage alleviates the tensions of modern lifestyles and offers a beautiful way to find inner-peace during a fertility journey or pregnancy. Please call 317.846.8777 to make an appointment.

A Park Avenue fertility doctor has broken the age barrier for women longing to be moms. Dr. John Zhang says a forty-nine year-old patient, at his New Hope Fertility Center, gave birth this month to a baby conceived with her own egg frozen at age forty-eight, the oldest on record.

"She's beautiful and healthy," the jubilant mom emailed friends after delivering her long-awaited daughter. "She's definitely the love of our lives!"

The infant made history in the world of IVF, which kicked off in 1978 with baby Louise Brown. "To the best of my knowledge, the oldest woman who has gotten pregnant from IVF with her own egg is forty-five," said Dr. Richard Paulson, a professor in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of Southern California, and a pioneer in the use of donor eggs.

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Once you and your husband decide it's time to be parents, you've changed your relationship even before the baby arrives. Here are ways to help keep your marriage solid and loving during this "trying time"... and beyond.

"Honey, let's have a baby!"

There, you've said it, a one-breath statement that changes your life forever. Having a baby is one of those huge, wondrous decisions that truly alters everything. But in order to grow your relationship along with your family, you'll need to keep the conversation going through all the many decisions that will follow this first one.

To learn a few of the issues you'll want to make time to talk about as you embark on this journey please keep reading...

According to the most extensive national data ever collected on adopted children and their families in the United States, the vast majority of adopted children are in good health and fare well on measures of social and emotional well being. Eighty-five percent of them are reported, by their parents, to be in excellent or very good health. And eighty-eight percent of adopted children age six and older show positive social behaviors.

That is contrary to the "negative stories that capture media attention", about adoption, says the study's co-author, Sharon Vandivere, a researcher for Child Trends, a nonpartisan Washington research group.

Called "Adoption USA", the report was written by researchers at Child Trends and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It was based on questions in the first ever National Survey of Adoptive Parents, a federal survey of two thousand families that had adopted children through foster care, private domestic adoption or international adoption.

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