Resources for Employees
ARC Fertility provides employees with detailed resources for employees to support their fertility journeys. This promotes greater understanding and access to high quality, cost-effective fertility care with the best outcomes.
ARC represents the largest, most established, physician-led network of vetted and board-certified fertility specialists across the U.S. With more than 250 locations, employees will be able to find the right physician close to their homes.
From personalized education through our Concierge service to a full range of digital tools, ARC’s employee benefits include a comprehensive database of resources for a complete employee fertility support system.
Find out more about your benefits
Apps
Developed by medical experts, FertilityNow helps you assess your fertility and provides in-depth resources to build your family. Complete surveys to estimate your chances for pregnancy with and without fertility treatment, and receive customized articles based on your responses.Contact your Human Resources department to find out how to download the app.
What Our Customers Are Saying About Us
“I just wanted to express how helpful Sophia Kieri has made this process. With so many steps that can feel very overwhelming she’s made things feel clear and in my control. So grateful for her! Thank you.” – Jennifer T.
“Your team was phenomenal in what seemed to be one of my darkest moments. Thank you for your kindness and professionalism.” – Rosalinda C.
“That’s rare in any company to feel that level of support on a personal level. ARC was there each step making things go seamlessly. ” – Campbell R.
“Ms. Yury has the best attitude. You can hear her smile over the phone. She reflects ARC’s motto (compassionate care) wonderfully!” – Eyitayo O.
Blogs and Articles
Fertility After Miscarriage: Myths Debunked
The distress caused by miscarriage tends to linger. Beyond the grief of losing their pregnancy, many patients worry about whether they can still deliver a healthy baby afterward. This fear is often exacerbated by misinformation about fertility after miscarriage. The...
The Silent Conversation: Why Men Don’t Talk about Fertility
Dr. Paul J. Turek on Why Men Don’t Deal with Fertility “Men don’t see a doctor unless something is bleeding or broken,” is a common saying and sadly describes a lot of male patients. When this attitude meets stigma and shame about infertility, many men avoid the...
Male Fertility and Corporate Benefits
Even companies that offer family-forming benefits often use services that leave men underserved. But offering male fertility treatment is a great way to boost recruitment and retention, provide a more equitable workplace, and anticipate the needs of today’s hybrid...
Fertility Benefits: The Smart Move for Tech
Fertility Benefits for Women Women are some of the highest achievers in technology, and yet face an uphill battle to succeed in a male-dominated industry. Companies that offer fertility benefits and stigma-free maternity leave are more likely to hire and retain the...
Balancing Fertility and Career
An Interview with Dr. Ellen Goldstein INTRO Women in demanding careers like technology often feel forced to choose between career and family. Dr. Ellen Goldstein of Beverly Hills Fertility knows this choice is more complicated than prioritizing one and then the...
Fertility and Your Career: How Young Professionals Can Plan Ahead
Fertility Preservation Great things take time, whether that’s starting a family or growing your career. Both endeavors are extremely worthwhile but can be tricky to balance, because they tend to begin at the same time — from a person’s mid-20s to 30s. Thankfully, for...
Menopause at a Glance
Age and Fertility What is perimenopause? During perimenopause, the body’s production of estrogen and progesterone, two hormones made by the ovaries, varies greatly. Source: NIH. What is menopause? Menopause is the time that marks the end of your menstrual cycles. It’s...
Making Fertility Available to Employees of All Ages
Comprehensive Fertility Benefits for Employees To ensure aging and other health factors don’t undermine family building prospects, parents are turning to fertility treatments like egg- and embryo-freezing, hormone therapy, and surrogacy. But these options are not...
It Shouldn’t Be Taboo to Talk About Infertility
Why is it Difficult to Talk About Infertility? It can be incredibly exciting when an individual or couple starts to think about planning their family. People don’t often stop to consider that they might have difficulty conceiving. When pregnancy doesn’t occur and...
The Relationship between Menopause and Family Building
Doctor Paula Amato, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the OHSU School of Medicine in Oregon Menopause and Fertility Treatment Popular culture treats menopause like a hard deadline that ends fertility beyond a certain age for people who can give birth. As with...
ARC Fertility Salutes Henrietta Lacks
The First Immortal Human Cell Line On October 4, 1951, a 31-year-old African American woman named Henrietta Lacks died in Baltimore. What sounds like the end of her story is actually just the beginning of a medical revolution: Physicians used tissue samples taken from...
Having It All: How young professionals can grow family and career in tandem
Everyone wants to “have it all.” For U.S. residents it’s also called the “American Dream”: the idea that a person who works hard can have a successful career, fulfilling family life, and emotional contentment. This pressure is especially strong for young professionals...
Steps an LGBTQ+ Couple Can Take Early on to Prepare for Starting a Family
The decision to have a child marks a major milestone for any family, especially for LGBTQ+ families who face unique challenges in their parental experience. Families of all shapes and sizes have hurdles to overcome when getting ready to conceive, and while...
ARC Is Now on Shortlister
You can now find ARC Fertility on Shortlister! Shortlister hosted David Adamson – MD, Founder and CEO of ARC® Fertility, to share more about their inclusive, comprehensive fertility and family-forming benefit solution. FAMILY-FORMING BENEFITS AND WHY THEY MATTER One...
Finance Professionals: The Unsung Heroes of Fertility
In the world of forming and growing families, reproductive endocrinologists are at the front line working with people who are facing difficulty in having children. Whether it’s helping a same-sex couple find a surrogate, assisting a single woman in her forties to have...
Two New Leadership Hires to Kick Off 2023
2023 has only just begun, and the year is already full of good news for ARC Fertility. Several new partner clinics throughout the country are working with us to deliver ideal fertility solutions to help families of all shapes and sizes grow and stay healthy. Our...
How Fertility Benefits Drive Recruiting and Retention
The past few years have only reinforced the value of finding and keeping the best workers. Since COVID-19 first rocked the world economy, workers have been more willing to leave unsatisfactory employment to find a situation that better fulfills their needs in terms of...
My Chemical Pregnancy
My journey to conceive my second child is requiring more cycles with my Reproductive Endocrinologist (RE) than trying to conceive my daughter did. To date, I have had one natural cycle IUI cancelled due to lack of ovulation and three failed IUI’s. After the third IUI,...
The “Right to Build Families Act” Will Guarantee Access to Reproductive Medical Care
On December 15, Senators Tammy Duckworth and Patty Murray, with Congresswoman Susan Wilde, introduced the Right to Build Families Act of 2022. A move to protect the rights of Americans to receive safe fertility treatments at their discretion, the Right to Build...
Self-Care and Fertility
There’s no question that access to healthcare plays a huge role in successful childbirth. The better and more consistent a person’s care, the likelier they are to conceive and deliver a healthy baby. In a perfect world, every parent would have both unlimited access to...
ARC Fertility Will Provide Family Forming Benefits to RESOLVE Winner AMWA
Every year, New York City hosts fertility leaders from around the world for the Night of Hope Gala. Sponsored by RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association, this event honors contributions to the fields of family forming and infertility treatment. The 2022 Night of...
ARC Fertility Announces Support for “Right to Build Families Act” to Guarantee Access to Reproductive Medical Treatments in Wake of Dobbs Decision
As uncertainty builds over access to reproductive healthcare, a Congressional bill seeks to eliminate obstacles to IVF and other treatments Cupertino, CA (December 19, 2022) – ARC Fertility, a pioneer in increasing access to quality family-forming benefits for...
ARC Fertility to Provide Family-forming Benefits to American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA)
Family-forming leader to provide fertility benefits for staff at women’s multi-specialty professional medical association Cupertino, CA (December 14, 2022) – ARC Fertility, a pioneer in innovative fertility treatment options, today announced it has been...
The ARC Fertility Program Contributes to Groundbreaking Book on Supporting People on Their Fertility Journeys
In the world of fertility medicine, it is easy to overlook the importance of managing the psychological well-being of people who are going through the difficult journey of forming and growing their families. That’s why the two-volume book Fertility...
Traveling During Treatment
When you’re going through fertility treatments, it can feel like you need to put your entire life on hold because of the frequent doctor appointments, time-sensitive medication, and the unpredictability of protocol changes mid-cycle. It seems easier to just cancel...
Feeling Nervous About Making an Appointment with a Fertility Clinic?
Your journey to parenthood isn’t going as you expected or planned. Maybe you’ve been trying for many months or even years without ever seeing a positive pregnancy test. Maybe you’ve endured multiple losses. Or maybe you’re in the LBGTQ community or single parent by...
Men and Fertility Whitepaper
In most cases, the conversation around infertility is framed as a "women's issue" – but according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, "failure to conceive within 12 months of attempted conception is due in whole or in part to the male in approximately...
Finding Support Through Infertility
Infertility is not a journey meant to be embarked upon alone. The physical and emotional toll it takes on you feels like you’re constantly carrying a weight around with you. If you have someone or a group of people to give some of that weight to, carrying it starts to...
How I Knew I Was Ready to Become a Mom
I have wanted to be a wife and a mother my entire life. I never once pictured my life without a husband and children of my own. I remember being in high school and wanting to fast forward to the part when my life was focused on taking care of my children. I didn’t get...
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness — Supporting Loved Ones
Last month was Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and ARC Fertility wants to highlight the importance of recognizing the women and families that have experienced loss on their TTC journeys. Losing a child at any point of gestation or age is arguably the...
Early Testing…To Test or not to Test?
The two week wait can be excruciating for some of us. You take every little thing you feel in your body as a potential sign of a pregnancy and you’re just so anxious to find out if this cycle will be the one that works! You see these early detection pregnancy tests...
Fertility Treatments for Baby #2
My husband and I are undergoing fertility treatments in hopes of conceiving our second child. I’ve noticed a few differences between going through treatments from our first vs. now trying for our second. There are still a lot of emotions and it’s not easy, but I don’t...
First IUI? What to Expect
Through my fertility journey as a whole up to this point, I have done 8 medicated and monitored cycles and 5 medicated IUI’s. I remember feeling very hopeful and excited when we started our medicated and monitored cycles and even more excited about my first IUI cycle...
Tubal Reversal versus IVF: Which is the best choice?
Sterilization is the most common contraceptive method utilized by couples in the United States. Approximately 27% of fertile women choose tubal sterilization as their method of contraception. About half of these surgeries are performed within 48 hours post-partum and...
Getting Through the Holidays While TTC
The holidays are painted as a time of joy and celebration and for a lot of people they are, but what if you’re not feeling joyous or like you don’t have the one thing that you actually want to be celebrating? When you’ve been struggling to try to conceive and/or are...
How to Advocate for Yourself During Treatment
In doctors we trust! But we also need to trust ourselves and not be afraid to speak up or bring something to the table. Your doctor is seeing dozens of patients every week and while they will take copious post-visit notes in your chart, they aren’t going to personally...
Questions to Consider Asking your Fertility Doctor During your First Meeting
Your first meeting with a fertility doctor is nerve-wracking and exciting at the same time. If you’re anything like me, I tend to get caught up in the moment and flow of conversation that I sometimes forget to ask questions I’ve been wondering about for a long time. I...
Trying for Baby #2
When I found out that I had fertility issues in my 20s, it really threw me for a loop. I didn’t know anything about the topic at all, and I had to get up to speed as quickly as possible so that my husband and I could make the necessary choices to try to grow our...
Eating for Two: Diet is Critical During Your Fertility Journey
When I went through the long road to having my daughter, there was a lot that was out of my control. For starters, my body simply wouldn’t allow me to get pregnant without medical intervention. As a result, I depended on a lot of other people for emotional support,...
The Financial Side of Fertility
Aside from the physical and emotional difficulties surrounding my diagnosis of infertility in my 20s, my husband and I were also confronted with the daunting financial costs associated with seeking medical assistance to form our family. This is something that no one...
Two to Tango
Hi! I’m Steven, Katie’s Husband. Katie has been sharing a lot about her fertility journey and our path to having our daughter, and she’s asked me to share some of my perspectives as someone who was there every step of the way. I’d like to start by saying how...
What I Wish I Knew About Fertility in My 20s
When I was in my mid-20s, I was diagnosed with medical conditions that I knew could make it difficult for me to conceive and carry a baby to term. Not only was this emotionally difficult for me and my husband, but I quickly realized that I didn’t know anything about...
Understanding Embryo Grading
As embryologists, one of the most common questions that we get from patients is "What do the grades of my embryos tell us about my chances of becoming pregnant?" The answer to this question is not a simple one. The objective of this article is to explain how we grade...
Adoption Benefits: The Forgotten Side Of Fertility Benefits
It is an increasingly competitive labor market in the United States. The unemployment rate is at 3.6%, which the Federal Reserve classifies as full employment. First-time jobless claims are their lowest since 1970, while wages have steadily climbed over the past year....
ARC Fertility: National Men’s Health Month is the Time to Focus on Male Fertility
Family-forming benefits – including for single men, trans men, and men in same-sex relationships – helps companies attract and retain high-quality, diverse employees Cupertino, CA (June X, 2022) – ARC Fertility, a pioneer in innovative fertility treatment...
Endometriosis and Fertility
A condition affecting 5 million American women, endometriosis derives its name from the word endometrium, the lining in the uterus that your body produces each month in case of egg implantation. If conception does not take place during a given month, then your body...
Dr. David Adamson to Speak at thINc360 2022
ARC Fertility Founder will Join Panel on Using Innovative Benefits to Foster Equity and Inclusivity Dr. David Adamson, founder and CEO of ARC Fertility, will be appearing as panelist at thINc360 in Baltimore, MD on May 24, 2022. thINC360 is the annual Healthcare...
ARC Fertility to Make Ro Sperm Kit Available to Men Looking to Engage with Their Fertility
All too often, when it comes to forming families, fertility issues are often framed as a “women’s problem.” The reality is that fertility issues can affect anyone of any sex, of any ethnicity, and at any age. Unfortunately, many men are resistant to having their sperm...
ASPIRE 2022: Giving the Bruno Lunenfeld Lecture on Global ART Data
by G. David Adamson, M.D., Founder and CEO Every year, the Asia Pacific Initiative on Reproduction (ASPIRE), the major reproductive medicine professional society in Asia, holds its congress. This year’s convention, titled “Addressing the Challenges of Human...
The COVID…Endemic? Vaccination and Fertility Treatment
Despite the best efforts of the medical and scientific communities, the past two years have shown that the novel coronavirus is unlikely to be completely eradicated. COVID-19 will transition from pandemic to endemic, remaining at large within the population and...
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Videos
Taking Care of Yourself During the COVID 19 Pandemic
Learn practical self-care tips and how to access needed resources during this unprecedented time. ASRM/ Mental Health Professional Group of ASRM
TeleHealth for Infertility
An overview of telehealth (telefertility) and its impact on infertility treatment for those beyond easily accessible treatment facilities.
Male Infertility
Male infertility is actually a bigger issue than many people would like to think.
How Old is Too Old to Have a Baby?
Women are having babies at much older ages than they used to. In 1970, the average age of a first-time mother was 21. Now, it’s 30. And in certain populations, it is even older than that.
The Economic Report: ARC Offers Affordable Infertility Care
“ARC’s mission is to provide patients with affordable financial solutions and give patients access to good educational support services.” ~ Dr. David Adamson
Stress Reduction and Pregnancy
Many studies, as well as the experiences of countless women, suggest that stress is associated with attempts to become pregnant.
Treatment Options for Infertility
Your fertility solution is unique to your specific needs, and depends largely on what is causing your difficulty getting pregnant.
About ARC Fertility
“Infertility is a life crisis that impacts every area of your life. This is where crisis becomes an opportunity and infertility becomes a journey.” ~ Psychologist and former infertility patient
Advice to Couples on Getting Pregnant
Fertility expert Dr. David Adamson discusses how long a couple should try to conceive before seeking help from a doctor.
Fertility IQ Course:
What Is Endometriosis?
Fertility IQ Course:
Diagnosing Endometriosis
Fertility IQ Course:
Treating Endometriosis
Additional videos
- ABC 10, Fertility treatments and how you can start the process right now
- Motherhood Maternity, IVF Q&A: When to Seek the Help of a Reproductive Specialist
- Motherhood Maternity, IVF Q&A: What are the Preliminary IVF Treatments?
- Motherhood Maternity, IVF Q&A: What are the Time-Periods of Doing IUI & IVF Treatments?
Podcasts/Webinars
Impact of Covid-19 on Fertility Treatment and Pregnancy
What do we know about how Covid-19 affects infertility treatment and pregnancy. Are pregnant woman more at risk? What happens if the mom has Covid-19 while pregnant? We interview Dr. David Adamson, a reproductive endocrinologist and surgeon, Clinical Professor at Stanford University, and Associate Clinical Professor at UCSF. He is Past President of the ASRM, SART, AAGL, the Committee on Reproductive Medicine for FIGO and is Founder, of Advanced Reproductive Care (ARC Fertility).
256 Modern Fertility and The Covid Impact with Dr. David Adamson
The most essential driving force of nature is to procreate.
We need healthy babies. And Dr. David Adamson knows more about baby-making than nearly everyone on the planet.
David Adamson is a consulting reproductive endocrinologist and surgeon, Medical Director of Equal3 Fertility, Clinical Professor ACF at Stanford University, and Associate Clinical Professor at UCSF.
In this episode we cover:
• The avergage age of first birth is 30 and getting older
•Cultural differences in fertility
•The importance of fertility insurance and support from employers
•Why it’s important to begin family planning conversations early
•Intercourse 2-3 times a week when you’re trying to get pregnant
•Benchmarks for when you should consider seeing a fertility doctor
•Trying to have a baby for a year, and under 30, go see a doctor
•Dr. Adamson sets me straight on me thinking the pill is detrimental to hormones
•Key fertility tips
•Effects of covid on fertility
•Current study shows that covid does not from pregnant mothers to babies
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