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Suzanne Reichenbach
with baby Zander

After
two years of desperately trying to have a baby, Suzanne Reichenbach was
told she would never produce enough eggs to conceive. At age 34, her
hormone levels were virtually premenopausal.

Like millions of other modern women who have pushed back
motherhood into their mid-30s and beyond, Reichenbach jumped at costly
In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) treatments, the so-called petri-dish
solution. But with too few follicles - the clusters of ovarian cells
that house a woman's eggs - science was stumped and Reichenbach was
frustrated.

Desperate, the would-be mom told her doctor at Genesis
Fertility Centre, a Vancouver reproductive clinic, that she would be
temporarily leaving their care to take one last stab at pregancy . . .
through the 8,000-year-old art of acupuncture. It didn't matter that
her physician had little hope in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

For couples having trouble conceiving, infertility treatments get a boost from acupuncture and other Chinese medicine techniques.

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Published June 18, 2004

If you think parenting is tough, consider that one in six couples can't even get there. But there's a new baby boom underway and with it, fertility clinics are beginning to breed across the province. And though the prices aren't cheap, the procedures aren't easy and the odds aren't great, the business of babies has never looked better.

The price of Life