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Collecting and reporting data is a crucial aspect of in vitro fertilization (IVF) practice. During the following two decades after the first report of the European IVF-monitoring Consortium (EIM) on IVF data, the number of contributing countries increased gradually reaching nearly forty. For the first seven years of publication, between 2001 and 2007, Turkey did not provide IVF data to the European registry. Turkey first took part in the European registry in 2008 and thus also in the World registry. The addition of Turkish data to EIM was an important milestone, since Turkey appeared as the country with the sixth highest number of cycles, performing nearly eight percent of all European assisted reproductive technology (ART) cycles. Turkey continued contributing to the European registry for the following four years consecutively but after 2012 the input of Turkish IVF data stopped. Strikingly, between 2008-2012 Turkey became one of the main contributors to the registry with an ability to give a full report. So far, we do not have a complete European set of data and the number of cycles reported by European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) EIM can easily be said to be an underestimation of the actual number of cycles. IVF data from Turkey - a country having the 17th highest population in the World and appearing among the first six countries in Europe in terms of the number of ART cycles per year- will definitely contribute very much to ESHRE EIM database. It is now time to turn the tide and restart submitting Turkish data to European registry, but this time regularly and in a systematic method. Such an achievement will greatly contribute to the aim of EIM of achieving a complete data set.

The popularity of Facebook (FB) has led researchers to seek ways of using the social media platform in their empirical research. One approach is to use FB's secret groups tool to conduct asynchronous online focus groups. In this research note, I outline the steps to using FB secret groups along with the strengths and weaknesses of this approach. I used FB's secret groups function to conduct three asynchronous online focus groups. I recruited caregivers of children with sensory processing disorder or "sensory issues" who took part by writing about their experiences online. By using Facebook secret groups, the researcher can meet participants in a setting they are familiar with (i.e., FB) which reduces the barriers to participating in a research study. The researcher, however, gives up some control over the research setting. This report fills a gap in the literature with a description of the logistics of using Facebook for online focus groups; this description is designed to help future researchers use this method in their studies of harder-to-reach populations (e.g., parents or caregivers).

The factors responsible for the return of fertility post-partum have not been very clearly defined. Several previous studies (Gross & Eastman, 1979; Diaz et al., 1988) have reported apparently major differences between populations in the duration of infertility associated with lactation. However, these differences may be related to the differences in study designs.