On average, a minimum 75% of mature eggs should fertilise after ICSI. Sometimes total fertilisation failure (TFF) or total abnormal fertilisation fertilisation (such as 1PN or 3PN) can occur (in up to 3% of ICSI cases) and cause Low Egg Fertilization Rate.
Sometimes, regardless of maternal age and embryo quality, some IVF cycles fail. When this happens it is a devastating blow, both emotionally and financially and the most common question is WHY?
Congratulations! After taking on IVF for a chance to conceive, you succeeded and have a little bundle of joy at home. Now you’re wondering what are the chances of conceiving a second child with IVF.
You’re finding yourself in this awkward phase of your journey where you are both a mom and still infertile. While some may throw insensitive comments your way about how “your body knows what to do now” or “your infertility is probably corrected,” they would be wrong.
We are born with a certain number of eggs in our ovaries – this is our ovarian reserve. If you are told you have a low or diminished ovarian reserve (DOR), this means that your egg number is lower than what is expected for your age.
Endometriosis is a disease in which cells similar to those that line the uterus may grow elsewhere in the body, such as the ovaries and fallopian tubes, resulting in extremely painful periods and sometimes causing infertility.
Endometriosis causes distortion of the pelvis and the release of inflammatory markers: macrophages and cytokines. But the impact of endometriosis goes beyond this.
So you’re doing IVF? Congrats! Your doctor will recommend the best IVF protocol (course of treatment) based on your diagnosis. The 5 types of IVF protocols below are the most common, but may not look exactly like your peers. The choice of medication and dosages will vary from woman to woman.
The sobering truth is that while IVF has been around for over 40 years, protocols are still administered on a trial and error basis. While most women will respond well to the Antagonist/Short protocol, others may require multiple IVF rounds to find the right protocol and medication cocktail for them.
In preparation for an IVF stimulation cycle, you should have gone through your initial infertility testing and diagnosis.
The results will help your RE determine the stimulation protocol that’s best for your situation. This is a critical piece to your IVF success as too little or too much medication can significantly impact your egg quality.
Your clinic will provide you with a list of medication, dosages and calendar for your key dates and monitoring appointments for your IVF stimulation cycle. Make sure to enter this info in the Embie app to keep track and set reminders of your daily protocol activities.
Whether a fresh embryo transfer or frozen results in better success is one of the most hotly debated topics among the reproductive medicine community. And while frozen transfers have shown to have a statistical edge, fresh embryo transfers remain a popular option around the world.
After your egg retrieval, your clinic will determine if a fresh embryo transfer is recommended based on several factors; the amount of embryos fertilized, estrogen and progesterone levels, and the health of your uterus (thickness and shape of your uterine lining, is fluid present, etc).
The success of a healthy pregnancy achieved through a Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) process has increased substantially in recent years.
Perks of waiting for an FET vs doing a fresh transfer include allowing your body to heal after the egg retrieval, doing genetic testing (PGS/PGT) on the embryos and fully controlling the development of the uterine environment (unless you opt for a natural transfer cycle).
Infertility is a disease defined by the failure to establish a clinical pregnancy after 12 months of regular, unprotected sexual intercourse or due to an impairment of a person’s capacity to reproduce either as an individual or with his/her partner.
Ok, Ok, we tried to write this section a hundred times with the standard medical terminology and stats as we started above, but we believe that if you’re here, you have an idea about what infertility is, as you’re living it.
