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Egg Freezing: Things You Should Know Before Freezing Your Eggs!

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This technology of egg freezing is a boon for the women today who are willing to delay their pregnancy due to medical needs or any other reasons or priorities. After IVF, egg freezing is the next big technological advancement in the field of fertility. Using these technique women can get pregnant at the time of their choice. Let us read some about things that we should be aware about before getting your egg freezing process done- Eggs should be frozen at a young age but not at a very young age: The highest live birth rate from previously frozen eggs is reported to be shown from women who are below the age of 30. However, women usually decide to freeze their eggs in between 30-40. Average age considered to freeze eggs is 37.  For best results women should freeze their eggs before the age of 36 as the quality of quantity of eggs remain good and are most likely to be used in future. It is true that freezing the eggs at a much younger age may result in a good number of high q...

Egg Freezing: Best Way to Preserve Your Fertility

While Infertility has already marred the life of millions of couples around, preserving your fertility at an early age has come up as a precaution which can be taken into consideration by people around. Egg freezing (preserving a woman’s eggs/oocytes) has come up as the best way to get the pregnancy postponed to a later date. The Process is simple starting from Extraction, freezing and storage! It is blessing and maintains the reproductive potential of women of reproductive age.  Though there are still people around who don’t give much importance to the same fact, let’s take a look at certain points which proves the significance of preserving your Fertility at an earlier stage with the help of Egg freezing. Fertility protection for social or personal reasons to delay childbearing Even though you want to start a family but not in the near future because of certain pressures be it social or personal, you can take up the option of preserving your fertility by Egg Freezing process. A...

Surrogacy process in India: Types of surrogacy and its implementation

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Within the past few years, surrogacy has really become popular amidst the growing infertility issues around with the couples and this is where most of them have opted to become parents whilst using a surrogacy arrangement. One of the many reasons why Surrogacy is preferred over other options like adoption is that long process that a person needs to go through whilst going for the adoption process. Talking about Surrogacy, it can be classified as Natural surrogacy or Gestational surrogacy. Gestational surrogacy (IVF surrogacy / Full surrogacy / Host Surrogacy) Here the surrogate mother will be carrying a child where the embryo has been formed after getting the sperm and eggs from the intended parents and mixing it in the lab dish. The embryo is then transferred into the surrogate mother’s womb and she won’t be genetically connected to the child. Natural surrogacy (Traditional surrogacy / Straight surrogacy) In this kind of surrogacy arrangement, the surrogate...

A Few IVF Terms Which Must be Known to All

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As an embryologist, the biggest joy which I feel is bringing a new life to the earth and in that way, bringing smiles in the life of many parents across the globe. In my journey, these things are my biggest achievements which I accomplish using various medical techniques and scientific advances. I am a real fortunate one to bring joy in the life of so many parents with the help of In-Vitro Fertilization, Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection, or Egg and Embryo Freezing modalities. These processes helped me to assist the parents and help them experience the amazing feeling of parenthood. Here I will describe some of the most important and heavily used terms related to Egg Freezing. A lot of people read the blogs but are not aware of the meaning completely as they are not connected with the world of science. Here explanations of a few terms are given for the better understanding of future blogs which will showcase many more topics associated with Egg Freezing. Infertility...

In Vitro Fertilization/Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection for Male Infertility.

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By Goral Gandhi (Indo Nippon IVF) - Progress in the field of assisted reproduction, and particularly micromanipulation, now heralds a new era in the management of severe male factor infertility, not amenable to medical or surgical correction. By overcoming natural barriers to conception, in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET), subzonal sperm insemination, partial zona dissection, and intracytoplasmatic injection of sperm (ICSI) now offer couples considered irreversibly infertile, the option of parenting a genetically related child. However, unlike IVF, which necessitates an optimal sperm number and function to successfully complete the sequence of events leading to fertilization, micromanipulation techniques, such as ICSI, involving the direct injection of a spermatozoon into the oocyte, obviate all these requirements and may be used to alleviate severe male factor infertility due to the lack of sperm in the ejaculate due to severely impaired spermatogenesis (...

IVF Lite - A New Strategy for Managing Poor Ovarian Res-ponders

IVFLite - Background: Previous trials have shown that neither conventional IVF nor natural cycle IVF is an effective treatment option for poor ovarian responders. However, none of the trials has examined the efficacy of accumulating embryos with serial minimal stimulation cycles, vitrifying the resulting embryos and transferring them in a remote cycle (IVF Lite protocol). Women with poor ovarian reserves, who commonly do not respond to conventional stimulation protocols, are left with few options when planning a family. The current study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of serial minimal stimulation in vitro fertilization (msIVF) cycles with vitrification of embryos for treatment of poor ovarian responders (PORs) as compared to conventional IVF protocols. Materials and Methods: This is a retrospective data analysis of PORs from June 2010 to November 2012. A total of 222 patients were included in the study. Ninety-seven patients underwent serial minimal stimulation cycl...

Stuck with Infertility? Get the Best IVF Treatment in India

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IVF is a magic word to a lot of people/ couple, suffering from fertility issues. Many people still wonder whether this process is right for them or at least safe but the truth is that many women have found success after trying the IVF technique and became pregnant. What happens during IVF? :   During the process, the eggs are removed from the body of the women and fertilized in the laboratory by the sperm provided by the sperm donor.