IVF Cycle

A typical IVF cycle involves several key stages designed to maximize the chance of a healthy pregnancy:

• Ovarian Stimulation: You will use injectable medications to stimulate the ovaries to grow multiple eggs in a single cycle.

• Monitoring: Through regular ultrasounds and blood tests, Michael monitors follicle progress to determine the optimum time for the trigger injection, which matures the eggs.

• Egg Collection: Approximately 36 hours after the trigger injection, eggs are collected via an ultrasound-guided vaginal procedure while you are under a light anaesthetic.

• Fertilisation & Culture: Eggs are combined with sperm in the laboratory and cultured into a blastocyst (Day 5 embryo). 

• Understanding Attrition: It is important to understand that there is a natural process of attrition during this week. Not every follicle will contain a mature egg, not every egg will fertilise, and not every embryo will continue to grow to the blastocyst stage.

• Freeze First or Fresh Embryo Transfer: Depending on your specific clinical scenario and preferences, you may have a fresh transfer of a Day 5 embryo into the uterus, or all suitable embryos may be frozen for subsequent transfer.