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If you have unexplained infertility, what are your chances of ultimately having a baby—either through infertility treatment or natural conception? We talk with Dr. Denis Vaughan, a board-certified Reproductive Endocrinologist at Boston IVF and a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He was the principal investigator on the study "Long-term reproductive outcomes in patients with unexplained infertility".
 
In this episode, we cover:

• What year was the original FASTT trial and what were the findings?
• What is unexplained infertility and how common is it?
• Did most of the women try to conceive after the original FASTT trial?
• How did the women who agree to participate in this follow-up study compare to the original FASTT participants? Was there a difference between those who participated in the follow-up and those who did not?
• What percentage of the women were successful at conception with IUI? IVF? Natural conception?
• What percentage tried to conceive with donor egg?
• What percentage adopted?
• If the woman had conceived via fertility treatment in the original FASTT trial is she more likely to conceive successfully in the future?
• Some speculate that a significant proportion of unexplained infertility is due to un-diagnosed endometriosis. Did this follow-up study shed light on that question?
• Did many of the women after the original FASTT study receive a more definitive diagnosis of why they were not able to conceive?
• What did the study show about patient satisfaction with their family building process and ultimate family size?
• What did we learn about conception with unexplained infertility as a result of the follow-up to the FASTT study?

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Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:

• Weekly podcasts
• Weekly articles/blog posts
• Resource pages on all aspects of family building