One of the most well-known forms of assisted reproduction technology is IVF (ART).
The IVF process is broken down into 5 steps. Let’s talk about the procedure and what it might mean for your future attempts to have children of your own.
1. Getting Ready for the Cycle
You and your partner will have to go through testing for the IVF cycle. Blood tests are administered to both partners’ sexes, along with a pelvic exam and a transvaginal ultrasound.
Your Fertility treatment doctors will recommend a course of birth control pills to start the cycle after conducting and analyzing all the tests. The pills might aid in lowering the potential for cyst formation, which might interfere with the cycle.
2. Stimulation of the Ovaries
In an IVF cycle, the goal is to produce as many mature eggs as possible to increase your chances of becoming pregnant. During the IVF stimulation phase, injectable medications are used for roughly 8 to 14 days to stimulate the Ovaries and produce more eggs.
The final step in the stimulation phase is the hCG “trigger shot,” a high-dose hormone injection that encourages the developing follicles (organs that house the tiny eggs) to mature and start the ovulation process.
3. Egg Retrieval
Visit the cutting-edge Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) lab at the fertility clinic 36 hours after the last trigger shot for egg retrieval. An ultrasound will be performed by fertility specialists to examine the ovaries in more detail.
The most popular method for egg retrieval is transvaginal ultrasound aspiration. An ultrasound probe is inserted into the vaginal canal to find the follicles. Ovarian follicles are aspirated with a needle under the direction of transvaginal ultrasound. The embryologist looks for all viable eggs in the follicular fluids.
The egg retrieval procedure is then carried out by inserting a needle into each ovary. The follicular fluid and eggs from each mature follicle will be extracted after the ovary has been punctured. An embryologist will carefully transfer the fluid and sort and catalog each egg. The process of removing one egg takes about 20 to 30 minutes.
4. Development of an Embryo
The process of fertilization is started by your embryologist after Retrieving Eggs are done and cleaned and prepared. There are two methods of fertilization: intracytoplasmic sperm injection and conventional fertilization (ICSI).
Three to five days after egg retrieval, embryo transfer is typically performed at a clinic or in your doctor’s office.
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5. Transferring the Embryo
There is no need for anesthesia during the quick five-minute embryo transfer procedure. On the morning of the transfer, your fertility specialist will perform a final examination of the embryos and make recommendations regarding which ones to transfer based on their general quality and age (ideally between days 5 and 6).
Before the transfer, you and your fertility specialist will talk about your cycle and decide how many embryos to use.
Transfer of embryos in stages
- The fertility specialist holds the embryo (or embryos) in a small amount of fluid in a syringe attached to the end of the catheter.
- They use a syringe to inject the embryo into your uterus after that.
If egg extraction is successful, an embryo will implant in the lining of your uterus six to ten days later.
Conclusion
Get in touch with a specialist at International Pride IVF & Research Center for the best Vitro fertilization treatment or other Assisted Reproductive Technology.
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