Many doctors routinely do a laparoscopy and hysteroscopy for all infertile women. They justify this by saying it's a simple diagnostic procedure, which will allow them to confirm that there is no anatomical problem. They also say it's "minor surgery", which just invol......

Infertility presents a number of unusual challenges for doctors.  It is caused by a medical problem -  for example, blocked fallopian tubes,  or a low sperm out - and this means we can offer medical treatment for it, but the truth is that childlessness is a social label......

I just received this email from a young 31 year old woman. " I have an exciting job in a bank, and want to pursue by career. I am married, but want to postpone having a child for the next 3-4 years, as I am on a the fast track to cracking the glass ceiling. However, my......

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Today, our standard practice is to freeze all your embryos at a blastocyst ( Day 5) stage, and then transfer them after thawing them in the next cycle, one at a time. Here's why we think this is the best method for optimizing your chances of having a healthy baby. Le......

A patient just sent me this email. We had our 1st cycle in July this year with ICSI as I had just turned 45 years and my partner is same age, we had a very good grade 1 embryo put back but didn't implant. So we have just now had another cycle on the 24th November......

Infertility presents a number of unusual challenges .   It is caused by a medical problem -  for example, blocked fallopian tubes,  or a low sperm count - and this means we can offer medical treatment for it, but the truth is that childlessness is a social label. This......

We all know that IVF does not have a 100% success rate, but when an IVF cycle fails, you are never sure what the reason for the failure was. Was it because of plain bad luck ? After all, why good looking embryos do not implant is still one of those things we do not un......

I received this tearful email from a patient. I have a very sad medical history .  I used to get extremely painful periods (I got my first periods at the age of around 14-15 years) where medical help was always required by me. The doctors in my home town could not und......

Logically, one would expect that the pregnancy rate would be better if we transferred two embryos at a time, as compared to putting back only  one .  Yes, this is true if you calculate the success rate per transfer, but not true when you calculate the cumulative pregnan......