IVF
Freezing IVF Eggs
The procedure for freezing and storing eggs from a woman's ovaries is called oocyte (egg) cryopreservation. It is notoriously difficult to do successfully, but nonetheless, some women want to...
Coping with IVF
Coping Professionally
In comparison to all the other strains of IVF -- wondering if it will work, taking hormones, feeling emotional and not yourself -- many...
Coping with IVF
Coping Financially
IVF is expensive, there's no getting around that fact. Unfortunately, infertility is a non-discriminatory problem that doesn't affect only wealthy people. While some couples...
Coping with IVF
Not Coping With IVF?
IVF is hard on your body and hard on your mind. People are all different and we handle these problems in different ways. Having...
Coping with IVF
IVF Counseling
IVF treatment is tough, not just physically, but emotionally too. In many cases, IVF is tried only after other fertility treatment options have already...
Coping with IVF
Men’s Coping Mechanisms
It's an old cliché than men are more likely to bottle up their feelings than women, but it's one that seems to hold true...
Coping with IVF
Coping With IVF
Statistics indicate that more couples than ever before are now struggling to get pregnant. For most of these couples, the potential benefits of IVF treatment far...
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IVF Fertility Treatment Criteria in the UK
In the last few months of 2017, the local Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) of Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire stepped back from their...
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Vitrification – Flash Freezing
Most of us are familiar with the concept of flash freezing. Fresh foods are exposed to sub-zero temperatures suddenly and they become frozen within...
IVF
Embryo Transfer
Embryo transfer is the final "stage" of the IVF procedure. Once embryos have been transferred to the patient's uterus, all she can do is...
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Egg Retrieval
When going through IVF, after you've taken drugs to induce ovulation, you have to undergo an egg retrieval procedure so that your eggs can be...