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Supplementing IVF Cycles With Progesterone

After the egg retrieval in IVF treatment, supplementing IVF cycles with progesterone is common for doctors to recommend. This is because progesterone plays a crucial role in preparing the uterus…

IVF Timeline: Understanding the Process

Some of the most common questions we receive from new patients are around the IVF timeline and process. What will your time commitments be? What kind of tests will be…

What Is IVF and How Is It Done?

Patients seeking infertility treatment commonly ask “what is IVF and how is it done?” IVF is an acronym for In Vitro Fertilization which means to fertilize an egg with sperm…

What to Expect During and After an Egg Retrieval

Many patients wonder, “what happens to my eggs during and after their egg retrieval?” The following is a brief outline of what to expect during and after an egg retrieval.…

What Happens After The Egg Retrieval?

Moving toward an IVF cycle can be both a nervous and exciting time. There are multiple ultrasounds and recurrent blood work. It is not uncommon to feel like a pin…

Embryo Transfers: Timing is Everything!

For the first 2 decades of IVF, we always transferred embryos on the 2nd or 3rd day after egg retrieval. We were unable to routinely grow the embryos beyond this…

Infertility Stress is Stressing Me Out

Misnomer or not, the belief that infertility is a psychologically driven condition exists. It is true that extreme circumstances of stress such as famine and in times such as war,…

Reproductive Freedom: Why Freeze Your Eggs?

When pregnancy is desired, success is expected immediately. Yet, the ability to have a baby is age related and the ‘Biologic Clock’ may run out before the right partner appears.…

Your IVF Protocol

If you and your physician have decided that you need IVF, you will be given a protocol of your upcoming IVF cycle. A protocol is a schedule or blueprint of…

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