Many patients find it very hard to do IVF because they simply aren't able to take the 15 days off they have been told they need for doing an IVF treatment. This is because many IVF clinics make very unreasonable demands on the patient’s time. They expect the patient......

Many IVF clinics take a lot of shortcuts when treating their patients. One of the commonest is transferring Day 3 embryos instead of Day 5 embryos. The logic they use is completely flawed. They claim that if an embryo is going to become a baby, it will become a baby w......

All IVF patients want to get pregnant as quickly as possible, and they know that if they transfer more embryos at one time, the chances of one of that implanting are obviously increased, as compared to just transferring a single embryo. In fact, this is why many docto......

It's important to differentiate between process and outcome in an IVF cycle. While it's true that IVF patients only care about an outcome – a healthy baby, part of the problem is that we can't control the outcome. All we can control is the process, and the good news......

Carrier testing for genetic disorders is being sold as part of the IVF package in many clinics. This preconception genetic screening refers to the process of testing couples doing IVF for genetic mutations or disorders that could be passed on to their children. Many I......

One of the commonest problems that couples who live in large cities face is their inability to have sex frequently enough to make a baby. This means that the reason for the " infertility " for many of these couples is not a medical problem but social infertility. This......

Pregnancy of Unknown Location (PUL) or Pregnancy of Unspecified Location is the clumsy term we use for patients during the early days of their IVF pregnancy when the beta HCG blood test is positive, but its too early to do an ultrasound scan to find out whether the pr......

It's completely normal for IVF patients to have multiple fears, worries, and anxieties both before and during their IVF treatment. This is partly because there is so much they don't understand about the medical minutiae; and partly because they are not sure what the out......

When a patient goes to an IVF doctor for a consultation, the standard ritual is that the junior doctor or assistant will fire off a list of questions that the patient is expected to answer, so the senior doctor can review them, make a diagnosis, and then prescribe tre......

The only outcome IVF patients care about is whether they get a healthy baby as a result of their treatment. Yes, this is the only clinical outcome that actually matters, but we also need to remember that this final outcome is not something that is in the doctors contr......