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RSC Lab Security: Always Raising the BarFrom Dr. Kristen Ivani, IVF Lab Director RSC’s mission and practice supports honesty and integrity in all ways, especially when it comes to the handling of patients’ precious gametes and embryos. You can also read more about our stringent lab standards and procedures… Experience Never Mattered MoreMore than 4,000 IVF babies since 1984 If you’re one of the 7 million Americans facing infertility, chances are your journey has not been easy or short. Most likely you’ve spent months or years pursuing pregnancy through natural means, intrauterine insemination (IUI) or in vitro fertilization (IVF). If so, we cheer your persistence. Persistence and determination mean a lot to us. Our own journey began more than two decades ago, when our first successes made medical history as some of America’s first “test tube babies.” It was October 26, 1986, when little Travis McCullar of Tracy became only the second baby in the United States born from a frozen embryo.
New! Choose Your Baby's GenderNEW! RSC now offers the Ericsson method for gender selection for couples who wish to increase their odds of conceiving a child of a specific gender. This method offers a high degree of the desired outcome with minimal risk to the sperm and no risk to the embryo...Read more. | |
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More than 750 RSC patients, young and old, and their doctors got together to celebrate RSC's 25th anniversary at Little Hills Ranch in San Ramon June 14. Liz Castro, the first IVF baby born in the East Bay, now 24, finally met her doctor, Donald Galen, MD. Brian Strickland, the second IVF baby born in Contra Costa County, also 24, joined the reunion of many who made extraordinary efforts to create their treasured families. Read more from the San Francisco Chronicle and TriValley Herald coverage about Liz, Brian, and the 
Success Stories
"I was elated to know that gestational surrogacy was an option for my husband and me. I felt tremendously confident that my doctors at RSC would lead my surrogate and I on our incredible journey." Read More...
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Get to know our doctors, our history and our philosophy better. Watch up-close views of our offices and work, including RSC's lab and even some of what happens under the microscope.
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INFERTILITY NEWS
Infertility can affect your marriage in many ways, arguments will brew, and fingers may be pointed, but remember; infertility is a medical condition. Would you fight with your partner if he was struggling with diabetes?
Tips for couples coping with infertility:
1. Emotional distance. Often one partner wants to talk about their feeling while the other wants to hide that hurt inside. Keep your communication paths open and try to respect each others’ process.
2. Money issues. It is said that couples most often fight about money and sex, and infertility contains elements of both. Understand the expenses of fertility treatments and focus on the goal of parenthood.
3. Give the benefit of the doubt. As humans we are trained to listen to the negative feelings in our brains, and unfortunately sometimes to embrace them. Give your partner the benefit of the doubt, feel compassion, and appreciate that you have each other.
The emotional strain on marriage caused by infertility can ultimately lead to a stronger bond in a couple. Couples learn to communicate better which can lead to a healthier relationship.