Sometimes IVF cycles get canceled because the man cannot produce a semen sample on demand at the time of the egg collection. This is often because he's very stressed out, and obviously masturbating in a hospital room or sometimes a hospital bathroom is not much fun,......

We do only single embryo transfers ( SET) . We do only Day 5 ( blastocyst) transfers – even for poor ovarian responders. We share embryo photos routinely and proactively with all patients. This documentation gives them priceless peace of mind they have received t......

When we tell patients to become IVF experts, we aren’t telling them to learn embryology – you can’t do IVF in your own bedroom. What we mean is that you need to know enough about IVF to be able to differentiate between a good IVF doctor and a bad IVF doctor. A well-i......

Many IVF patients do their first IVF treatment cycle with lots of hopes. Especially during the first consultation, the doctor is very hopeful and optimistic, because he is in sell mode. You get to talk to the senior brand name doctor who tom-toms their high success ra......

Most IVF doctors in India are quite paternalistic, and they get put off when patients ask questions. They feel that patients are challenging their authority and that the job of a patient is to leave everything in the doctor's hands because the doctor is an expert medi......

Patients often don't understand why we insist that they take the time and trouble to educate themselves about the IVF process. Their general attitude is - We're just patients. As laymen, what do we understand about medical technical niceties? And after all, aren't we......

Whenever patients sign up for IVF treatment, doctors are very charming and enthusiastic, because they are in “sell mode”. They brag about how high their success rate is; how good their technology is; how many patients they've treated; and use photos of celebrities as......

My blood boils when I see how IVF doctors take advantage of patients' ignorance and cheat them. Today, most IVF doctors don't bother to give photographs of embryos to their patients, even though they know that the only thing an IVF clinic can do is make an embryo. And......

Laparoscopy and hysteroscopy are one of the most overused, misused, and abused procedures today for infertile patients. It’s widespread to see that a lot of doctors will still do these - both before doing an IVF cycle, and afterward as well. And it's very easy for the......

Saiprasad Gundeti, Chief Embryologist, Malpani Infertility Clinic Pvt. Ltd. Incubators have a critical role in providing a stable environment for optimal embryo development within the in vitro fertilization (IVF) laboratory. That’s the reason, the incubator is called t......