Connecting Women Struggling with Fertility Pineapple has become an incredibly powerful symbol connecting women struggling with fertility. The pineapple is featured in many social media accounts and communities of women with infertility. Women undergoing fertility treatment are wearing clothing and jewelry with pineapple that can be purchased online through Etsy and other retailers. In some […]

More About Fertility Specialists Helping Endometriosis Fertility specialists helping endometriosis are at Southwest Fertility Center.  There are several ways a fertility specialist can help patients.  https://www.womenshealth.gov/a-z-topics/endometriosis An REI is someone who is specially trained to treat infertility.  In addition, IVF is also an option to treat infertility more efficiently.  As a result, it does not waste […]

RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association You don’t owe anyone an explanation. Not your mother. Not your sister. Not your best friend, your neighbor, or your cousin’s brother’s wife. The Choices You Make Regarding Your Infertility are Personal. They are for you (and if you have one – your significant other) and that’s it. You don’t […]

TESS KVALE Dr Sujatha Gunnala, Dr Vinay Gunnala and the staff and nurses at Southwest Fertility Center are some of the most important people in our lives, because they made our baby girl possible. After 6 years of trying to conceive on our own we sought out treatment. We did a year and a half […]

1 in 10 Women Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women worldwide. It can cause pain — sometimes severe. Fertility problems also may develop. Fortunately, effective treatments are available. Endometriosis is a common condition where tissue that usually lines the inside of a woman’s uterus, grows outside causing a range of symptoms, mainly pelvic pain. “It […]

Half of women over 35 who want a child do not end up having one, and by age 49 about half report they have not yet had the number of children desired. While some of the 49-year-old men may still father a child later in life, this is unlikely to be the case for women […]

No Current Evidence Currently, there is no evidence that the COVID vaccines have any effect on future fertility. It is already known that pregnant women are at a higher risk of complications associated with COVID-19 such as ICU admission and death, and there is a rare but tragic increase in placentitis and stillbirth, highlighting the […]

Congrats on Twin Boys! Amber Shahebrahimi – “I cannot speak highly enough of the entire team at the center. We were trying to conceive on our own for over a year before we finally decided to reach out for help. After all the diagnostics, I was initially disheartened by our chances, but Dr. Gunnala gave […]

In Vitro Fertlization In vitro Fertilization (IVF) is an assisted reproductive technology that includes the removal of mature eggs from the woman’s ovaries and the eggs are placed in a nutritive culture medium dish. The sperm is added to the culture media dish and fertilization takes place in the laboratory. Three to five days later […]

Review from Brayden Dailey “Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me” I first went to Southwest Fertility Center wanting a child of my own (not having a partner) They welcomed me with no judgement, and after the first IUI (I used one of their in house donor’s) found out it worked. I had the most […]