A Mexican woman Carla Vanessa Perez is going to become the new world champion in fertility. The local media report says that Carla is pregnant with nine babies! According to the doctors, the woman will go into labour before 20 May. Perez says that she is going to deliver six daughters and three sons. Now she is ... Full story

"Octomom" Nadya Suleman filed the documents for bankruptcy to the court in Los Angeles, and the unpaid debt is so large that she asks to protect her from the creditors. Full story

When it’s a question of having children, Giuliana and Bill Rancic are determined to come through with it no matter what – even though in vitro fertilization let them down twice last year. The first time it ended in a miscarriage, and the second time it simply didn’t work, as Miss USA 2011 host told at The Talk on Tuesday – “it’s been really tough.” Full story

Just in a few days, there starts a unique in its kind IVF lottery in the UK, in which all women interested have a chance to purchase a lottery ticket worth £ 20 and get a chance to win ... a child. Full story

It was revealed during the experiment, conducted among Israeli patients in the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF), that a 15-minute encounter with a professional “medical clown” increased the chances of getting pregnant up to 36%, compared with the women who did not meet the clown. Full story

It is not a secret that in this era of women's emancipation birthrate in developed countries has significantly decreased. Moreover, the number of pregnancies in the late period of productivity, when a woman is in her late thirties or even in early forties, has increased. However, a woman's ''biological clock'' is not directly related to her age. Full story

Infertility is the reason for emotional suffering for a surprisingly huge number of men and women. It is a nightmare for a man tormented with infertility to see his wife go into baby obsession mode expecting to conceive each time they have sex. Full story

Children born through in vitro fertilization (IVF) physically grow faster than their peers do. This was the conclusion made by specialists from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Full story

Eventually Celine Dion became pregnant this spring after a string of unsuccessful in-vitro fertilization attempts. There are no pregnancy complications, but she is not taking any chances. The singer is bearing twins that are expected in November, yet it has been confirmed that she is at hospital now. Full story

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to British scientist Robert Edwards for the development of in vitro fertilization (IVF). The prize amount this year is 10 million Swedish kronor (about one million euros). The award ceremony will be held in Stockholm on December 10, the day of death of its founder - Alfred Nobel. Full story

Reproductive technologies have a significant impact on the sex ratio of newborns. Employees of the University of New South Wales came to these conclusions after studying data on more than 13 thousand births of those that resorted to artificial insemination of women. Full story

In-vitro fertilization (IVF) conception has been found to be greatly affected by such factor as air pollution, as reported in a recent study published in Human Reproduction. Full story

When babies come into the world naturally, we generally have 105 boys for every 100 girls. That goes to counterbalance the percentage of fatality that appears to be higher for male babies, both unborn and born. Full story

Although in August Celine Dion’s representative made known that the famous singer was pregnant, now it seems that the statement was a little premature. In Touch magazine has reported that Celine is not pregnant for the time being. Full story

35-year-old British woman, Rachel Denton, managed to get pregnant naturally after losing weight in order to have in vitro fertilization (IVF). She spent years trying to get pregnant, but had no success because of her weight. Doctors claimed, she was too fat for IVF. She used to weigh 264 lb (120 kg). Full story

The twins born by 67-year-old María del Carmen Bousada de Lara from Spain are now left orphans, although they have not turned three yet. Christian and Pau were born in Barcelona in December 2006, just a day before their mom celebrated her 67th anniversary. And last Saturday 69-year-old Maria Carmen lost her fight with cancer and died in her house in south-west Spain. The disease was diagnosed months after having the children. Relatives and friends unanimously talked the pensioner against the pregnancy because of the costly treatment of the woman whose menopause had been 18-year-long by the time. Full story

Infertility has been a growing nightmare in the developed countries for some time, but medical researchers have finally made a technological breakthrough that will put an end to its reign. Introducing In Vitro Fertilization, or IVF, an idea first proposed in the 1960s by Patrick Steptoe and Dr. Robert Edwards, a psychologist from Cambridge; about ten years after the first IVF baby was born. Full story

Nadya Suleman from Los Angeles suburbs, who gave birth to eight babies recently, confesses that she always wanted to have many children. Besides the newborns, Nadya, 33, has six other children. All of the fourteen children were conceived with the help of in-vitro fertilization (IVF). The happy mother will have to bring up all 14 children alone. Full story