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......

The role of patient education in IVF is crucial but is often misunderstood. When we tell patients to become IVF experts, it's not that you need to learn embryology, or you how to do IVF in their own bedroom! What we mean is that patients need to know just enough about......

Second IVF cycles are often much easier to do than the first cycle, because the first cycle is full of anxiety as well as fear of the unknown, and patients are never sure what's going to happen. By the time you've done one cycle, even if that cycle has failed, at leas......

It can be incredibly frustrating when a high-quality embryo fails to implant in what seems to be an ideally receptive endometrium, leaving both patients and doctors searching for answers. This entire area is not well-understood, which is why various approaches are bei......

Many young women today are active and in top physical condition. Because they're flexible, supple, and able to run marathons, they also automatically assume that their egg health is also good, and their ovaries will be in good condition, as a result of which they will......

As IVF doctors, we often believe that highly educated patients (MBAs or IT engineers), know a lot about their reproductive system. But sometimes this turns out to be a dangerous assumption because many of them are completely clueless about human reproductive biology.......

As an IVF doctor, I'm still quite amazed by how little, even highly educated women understand about how their reproductive organs work and how little they understand about their menstrual cycles and fertility. For example, one of the common misconceptions which women......