If you are unable to get pregnant after a year of having sexual intercourse without using any form of birth control, it might be a good time to consult a fertility doctor. If you are 35 years or older then you should wait only 6 months, however, the best thing to do is go in for preconception counseling wherein you visit a fertility expert much before you even start trying to conceive so that most problems can be identified and rectified in time.

Success rates can vary widely, globally IVF success rate is somewhere around38-39 %., and the most important parameter to influence is the female age. women, more than 35 years of age might need repeated cycles of IVF for success.

Generally, an IVF procedure takes approximately 4-6 weeks, from the starting of medications to egg retrieval and embryo transfer.

In an IVF cycle, if more embryos are formed than needed, the remaining embryos are frozen and stored for future use, this procedure to preserve and store embryos is known as cryopreservation.

Yes, we can preserve a woman’s fertility by egg freezing, so she can try to have a family in the future. It involves collecting eggs by the process of egg retrieval and then freezing them. The eggs are then thawed when the woman is ready to go ahead with fertility treatment.

The egg retrieval or ovum pick-up is a day procedure done under anesthesia, to ensure that you do not feel any pain and there is no discomfort whatsoever during the procedure.

Each clinic uses its grading system to allow them to believe they are the best embryos. day 3 and day 5 embryos are graded separately. Day 3 embryos are graded generally 1-4. Whereas a blastocyst grade is presented by a number and 2 letters (A to C). The number suggests the stage of expansion and the letters relate to the cell mass. The first letter relates to the inner cell mass and the second relates to the trophectoderm cells.

Embryo donation is similar to egg donation. However, instead of borrowing the egg only hereboth the egg and the sperm are derived from donors. and then they are fertilized and embryos are formed .then these embryos are donated. couples are recruited for embryo donation when both the partners are infertile, and when couples are at risk of passing genetic disorders to their child.

Aneuploidy is defined as having an abnormal number of chromosomes.
It is a condition in which one of your 23 chromosome pairs is missing or there is an extra one.
A Euploid embryo has the right number of chromosomes. So that’s 46, or two pairs of 23.