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Lots of IVF clinics claim to have very high pregnancy rates, and it often appears that practically anyone who does an IVF cycle in these clinics gets pregnant ! Sadly, most of them don't end up with babies ! This is because of the clever scam which these...

A lot of people worry that IVF babies are abnormal as compared to babies made in the bedroom . This is often based on press reports which say that IVF increases the risk of babies having medical problems . This is true , but we need to understand why ! Th...

A lot of IVF patients ask me what they need to do in order to prepare for an IVF cycle. Most of this is fairly common sense stuff , which they already know. They should be taking supplements , like folic acid. They should be fit, in good health, with the...

One of the reason IVF cycles can be so stressful is because patients are so poorly prepared for it. For one thing, they have very unrealistic expectations , and they expect that they're going to get pregnant in the first cycle itself. Now I understand tha...

A lot of infertile couples are very reluctant to do IVF because they think that it signals the fact that they are failures. They think of this as a stigma - that because they have not been able to make a baby in their bedroom, they need assistance from a do...

In the past, IVF was purely a medical procedure , which was done only for medical reasons. Thus, IVF was restricted for infertile couples, who couldn't have a baby in their bedroom, for various reasons such as blocked fallopian tubes , or a low sperm coun...

If you have only a single embryo, should you do a transfer on Day 3 or Day 5 ? This is a common dilemma which both patients and doctors face , and there are pros and cons for both approaches. After all, if you have only one embryo, then why bother to wai...