In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is the scientific name given to the process with is used to conceive a child outside the body. During the IVF process, an egg is removed from the woman’s ovary and is then fertilised with her partner’s sperm. The fertilised egg and sperm will then be inserted back into the patient through the cervix. IVF is often the only means of achieving a pregnancy for women whose fallopian tubes are blocked.

New, more complex assisted reproductive technologies, or ART, procedures, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), have been available since the birth 18 years ago of Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby." IVF makes it possible to combine sperm and eggs in a laboratory for a baby that is genetically related to one or both partners. IVF is often used when a woman's fallopian tubes are blocked. First, medication is given to stimulate the ovaries to produce multiple eggs.

In-vitro fertilization (IVF) is a process in which your eggs collected from your ovaries are mixed with your husband's sperms in a test tube or plastic dish with the objective of one sperm entering one egg and combining to produce one embryo. One to three embryos are then placed in your uterus for implantation and development into one or more babies.

In vitro fertilization, IVF, gets its name from the fact that fertilization occurs outside of the woman's body, in a lab dish instead of a woman's fallopian tubes. Typically, a woman will use ovulation stimulating drugs to produce an excess number of eggs. These eggs are surgically removed from the woman and fertilized in dish with sperm. If fertilization takes place, the physician transfers the embryo(s) into the women's uterus. ART

The statistics of success can be confusing. The current standard, as per the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART), measures of success are clinical pregnancy and live birth rates per retrieval, the difference between them being primarily due to miscarriages. For recent experience, ongoing pregnancy rate (defined by the presence of a viable fetus with a heartbeat at 12 weeks) approximates closely the ultimate birth rate. The woman's age is the main determinant of outcome.

If you are in need of Assisted Reproductive Technology such as IVF, ICSI, or other services requiring the expertise of a specialized fertility center, we will arrange a referral appropriate to your needs. If you have a need for a Boston program through geography or insurance preference, we also have a partnership with the Reproductive Science Center of Boston.

The outline of the procedure is the following: the egg is aspirated from the ovary, it is fertilized by a sperm in the laboratory, and the embryo is then transferred to the uterus. It could be devided to the following stages:

Please consult your physician regarding taking FertilAid with any or other fertility treatments. FertilAid is not recommended for women using fertility drugs or IVF treatment.

This involves stimulating the ovary, collecting the oocytes, fertilization of the oocytes with activated semen, and then transfer of the embryos back to the mother. This is the most modern technique for the treatment of infertility, particularly for couples where there is male factor infertility.

Fertilization in vitro (in a tube) enables or improves the probability of the encounter between the ovule and the spermatozoon. In vivo (in the body), this encounter takes place in the Fallopian tube. Indeed, in vitro fertilization was devised to circumvent problems posed by tubal obstruction. Its range was later extended to other causes of subfertility in women and to problems of male subfertility, shedding light on the performance of spermatozoa.

During the course of a natural or spontaneous cycle, usually only one oocyte matures completely with the 'intention' of being fertilized. Thus, only a single embryo can be obtained. Only half of the embryos obtained either spontaneously or after in vitro fertilization are capable of developing and terminating in the birth of a child.

Spermatozoa and oocytes (ovules or eggs) must be available. Most of the time, spermatozoa are isolated from the ejaculate obtained by masturbation. In certain cases, notably when an obstacle blocks the male genital system, it is possible to retrieve spermatozoa by puncture of the deferent canal, the epididymis or even the testicle. The oocytes are extracted from the follicular fluid obtained by ultrasonography-guided aspiration of follicles within the ovary.

Complication called Ovarian Hyper Stimulation Syndrome is always feared during this treatment .It is more in younger females and esp. females with Polycystic Ovaries. To avoid that, treating physician always keeps a check on growing follicles and titrates the doses of Gonadotropins. If it is still imminent ,then we do not transfer the embryos in that particular cycle and Freeze them to transfer later on. Chances of this complications are very low and usually treated in a conservative manner.

Tubal sterilities, when they allow no chance of passage of either the ovule or spermatozoa (agenesis, complete obstruction, voluntary sterilization). Male subfertilities, when the number of competent spermatozoa (motile and morphologically of good quality) is too low to offer an acceptable chance of conception resulting from sexual intercourse. In these cases, in vitro fertilization is an adequate response because fewer spermatozoa are needed.