1.   Although at some research centers, ovarian tissue is being frozen for future egg development, no human pregnancies have been achieved with this approach, Cardonick said.

2.   First has said informally that he had achieved some pregnancies in cattle but that none had gone to term.

3.   It is hard to say if a couple who had a baby after treatment might have achieved pregnancy by less aggressive means.

4.   Some critics have attacked the programs as a marketing ploy that encourages doctors to take unnecessary risks to achieve successful pregnancies.

5.   Somehow the desire to have a family got shoved aside by an overpowering need to achieve a pregnancy.

6.   The pregnancy was achieved only after two operations to reverse a tubal ligation, and a failed attempt at reconciling with the father of her two dead sons.

7.   About two-thirds of those undergoing the procedure do not achieve pregnancy.

8.   Doctors routinely try to achieve pregnancy by injecting sperm directly into the uterus or by stimulating the ovaries with hormones to release eggs.

9.   Her pregnancy was achieved through in vitro fertilization.

10.   Her pregnancy was achieved through in vitro fertilization with her husband-manager, Rene Angelil.