There are two techniques used to fertilize eggs during IVF: conventional insemination (simply referred to as IVF) or intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).
IVF and ICSI have many similarities. However, the differences between them are very important to note as you make a decision about your treatment path.
Preimplantation genetic testing or PGT as it’s often referred to, is a genetic test that takes place before an IVF embryo transfer, designed to tell you if each embryo is chromosomally healthy.
A normal embryo (that is euploid) has 23 pairs of chromosomes and has a better chance at leading to a successful live-birth than an aneuploid embryo.
How did a Freeze-All embryo strategy become the industry norm? A suggestion originated in the early 2000s that the high hormone levels derived from a stimulated IVF cycle would encourage a non-receptive, out-of-phase endometrium. The concept arose that adopting a freeze-all embryo approach would not only minimize the risk of ovarian hyper response syndrome (OHSS) but maybe even improve pregnancy rates in the general IVF population.
Egg retrieval day is an exciting and anxious time. The success or failure of an IVF cycle depends on this moment. From your first negative pregnancy tests to the infertility diagnoses, every shot injected, all the stimulation medications, all the financing, and trauma of infertility- all of it has been leading up to this day.
