For anyone contemplating surrogacy, thorough planning, thought and research is vital. Sam Everingham from Growing Families discusses the current options. Altruistic surrogacy Countries such as the UK...
You’re ready to get started! Call the clinic when you get your period, and they will ask you to come into the clinic two days later. At this appointment, you’ll have blood tests and your baseline scan, also known as a...
If your doctor things that the Long Protocol is the best option for you, you will begin your ‘down regulation’ in stage 2. The doctor will prescribe medication that will suppress your ovaries, preventing your pituitary...
You’ll begin FSH (follicle-stimulating hormone) injections a few days after you start your period, and will continue to take them for eight to twelve days. These injections stimulate your ovaries to produce multiple...
You have now reached an exciting part of your IVF cycle – your trigger shot! A trigger shot is a commonly used name for an injection of hCG (human Chorionic Gonadotrophin). This hormone starts a development cycle that...
Just before ovulation, between 34 and 40 hours after your Trigger Shot, your eggs will be collected. You’ll be given a mild sedative, and then ultrasound probe fitted with a needle is inserted into your vagina to remove...
Your eggs are suspended in a special fluid and incubated before being introduced to your partner’s sperm and left to fertilise for 16 – 20 hours. If the sperm is low quality or has a low count, your clinic may offer you...
This might be the most crucial stage of all. Your embryo transfer will usually take place two, three, four, five, or even six days after your egg collection. It involves inserting an embryo (or multiple embryos...
Depending on your results, you’ll either hear the best news of your life, or it will be the hardest stage of all. Between 12 and 14 days after your IVF embryo transfer, you will take a blood test to determine if you are...
Here Dr Mark Trolice, a fertility specialist at Fertility Care in Florida, gives invaluable advice to any woman experiencing fertility issues Female infertility is defined as a woman of reproductive age who is unable to...
We are so excited to welcome Mr Raef Faris, a leading fertility consultant from the Lister Fertility Clinic, as an IVF babble expert! The Lister Fertility clinic is one of the largest IVF clinics in the the UK and Raef...
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