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The attitudes of patients towards having to use donor eggs can vary a lot ! Many older women have poor ovarian reserve , and they know that the best way of having a healthy baby is to use donor eggs. However, lots of them find it very difficult to come to te...

Just as the role of the doctor is extremely important in IVF treatment , so is the role of the patient because it's ultimately a partnership. And we want patients who have realistic expectations of the IVF treatment and understand that nothing has 100% succe...

Infertile couples should stop thinking of themselves as being patients. The reality is that they're really not sick. For one thing, not having a baby, which is being childless is more a social condition rather than anything else, so that for people who...

Quality control in the IVF Lab from Dr Aniruddha Malpani

It's completely normal for all IVF patients to be anxious because you don't know how well the cycle is going to grow, whether you're going to grow eggs, how good your quality of embryos is going to be, or whether you're going to get pregnant or not. There's...

One of the common questions patients ask us is What treatment protocol are you going to use for our IVF cycle ? There are lots of super ovulation protocols available , and many clinics are very rigid and will use only one protocol for all their patients. Th...

Lots of IVF clinics - especially the IVF chains - will batch patients together. Some do this because they don't have a full-time embryologist , or an expert -time IVF specialist , and they have to depend on someone to come from outside the city in order to d...

We all know what IVF pregnancies are these are the pregnancies which are a result of an IVF treatment cycle ! IVF independent pregnancies are common as well . These are the patients who are waiting to do IVF treatment , and who get pregnant even before t...

A lot of people are very worried whether IVF is safe or not, and many infertile couples are not allowed to do IVF by their family members, because they are concerned about the side effects of IVF - both on the mother , and the baby. After all, they believe tha...