IVF is a proven, preferred and a helpful tool for those couples who are not able to conceive naturally. It is a process involves monitoring & stimulating a woman’s ovulatory process removing an ova or an ovum from ovaries of a woman while letting the sperm fertilize them in a liquid.
1. Embryo Transfer
This is performed after two to five days in an incubator, one or two of the best quality embryos are chosen for transfer. During the procedure, a fine tube (embryo transfer catheter) is then passed through the cervix, into the womb using ultrasonography guidance. The embryos are gently passed down the tube into the womb for implantation to occur. A pain-free procedure which usually needs no anesthesia that takes less than a minute.
2. Blastocyst Culture
Blastocyst culture allows for better selection of the embryos to be transferred and allows for lesser number of embryos to be transferred to achieve a pregnancy. When an embryo is cultured in the lab for 5 to 6 days it forms a blastocyst. Thus the risk of multiple pregnancies is reduced. Not all embryos will develop to blastocyst stage and at times no embryos or fewer embryos will be available for freezing.
3. Assisted Hatching
A laboratory procedure sometimes done along with in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment. IVF involves mixing of eggs with sperm in lab as opposed to within a woman’s body likewise in natural conception. Assisted Hatching of embryo involves the insertion of a single sperm directly into a mature egg which is obtained from the ovary of woman undergoing IVF. This often leads to fertilization & the development of a normal embryo.