Fertility drugs are medications you take to help you start a family when natural conception is not working for you. TakingIVF drugs or related medications may worry you. Your fear of IVF meds may have nothing to do with standard…
Medical science has come a long way over the years. Once upon a time in a castle far away a beautiful princess may have been treated for various ailments by attaching blood sucking leaches to her arms. Infertility treatments in…
One of the most important aspects of medicine is taking the prescribed medications at the prescribed times. Taking your prescribed medications on time, every time is the most assured way of gaining maximum benefit from them. This holds true whether…
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is a common IVF treatment to help infertile couples in their journey to conceive a child. The single-most cause of a couple’s infertility is defective sperm. Male infertility can be from genetic or environmental factors,and is…
When a couple is having fertility issues they often turn to IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) in order to have that child they have longed for. Often when a couple goes through the IVF procedure they produce several eggs to be…
Gonal F stands for follitropin alfa which is a natural hormone that is used to stimulate the follicle (egg) to develop and mature appropriately. Gonal F is primarily used when a woman wants to have a pregnancy, but is having…
For many couples having a child is the most important thing in their life. While it is frustrating enough to have fertility problems causing difficulties in conceiving a child, it’s even worse to lose a pregnancy to miscarriage. Well, there…
The sixth and final step in the IVF procedure is a series of pregnancy tests in order to determine if the procedure was a success or failure. About two weeks after the implantation of the embryo you will be given…
After the fertilization of the egg to create the embryo, the next step in the IVF procedure is the implantation of the embryo into the uterus. This procedure is actually fairly simple. It only takes about 5 minutes for the…
In September of 2017 a fertility specialist at the Marin Fertility Center located in Greenbrae,, California announced that the first babies (twins) were born in San Francisco using a new technology called the INVOcell. What is the INVOcell The INVOcell…