Many young women freeze their eggs as an insurance policy , because it allows them to delay having children until they are ready to have a baby. Some are unsure if its right for them as egg freezing is expensive and invasive. Determining whether freezing your eggs is...

When are women most fertile during their life? The best time for a woman to have children is between her late teens and late 20s. Fertility, or the ability to have children, starts to go down after age 30. When you reach the middle of your 30s, this decline speeds up....

A 100% IVF success rate is the Holy Grail for all IVF doctors and patients , because it would make everyone's life so much easier ! The reason this is never going to happen is that human reproduction is not efficient. We know that about 50% of top-quality blastocysts...

We are now routinely pooling embryos for many patients who want to postpone having a baby. These are usually young women , who don't want to have a baby right now because they want to pursue a career, but understand that babies born from the eggs of older moms have a h...

Which are the best days to have sex to get pregnant ? A woman can only get pregnant during a few days of her cycle because eggs and sperm only live for a short amount of time. Sperm live for about 4 days, and eggs can only be fertilised for about 24 hours (one day)...

IVF, or in vitro fertilization or test tube baby, is the most effective treatment option for infertile couples. The great thing about IVF is that treatment protocols have become standardized. And equally importantly, it allows us to solve any problem no matter what it...

Can you do anything to get pregnant quickly? Definitely! The best way to get pregnant is to have sex at least once every other day while you are fertile. But know that not every couple will get pregnant quickly, even if they do everything right. But you can make your c...

The good news about IVF is that, because it's been around for so many years, treatment protocols have become very standardized. which means most IVF clinics will know exactly what to do for the patients who come to them, which is great because patients are no longer be...

Spirituality and IVF treatment it might seem unusual that an IVF doctor is talking about spirituality, but the reality is that IVF treatment is highly taxing on the patient. No matter what you do, the outcome of an IVF cycle is always going to be uncertain because ther...

Choosing the right IVF doctor, selecting the right IVF doctor is the most important decision an IVF patient can make because this is the only thing that is in your control. You can't influence your ovarian reserve. You can't influence your husband's problem If your tub...