IVF treatment – establishing and understanding your personal boundaries
If you’re reading Fertility Road magazine, and this article specifically, there’s a good chance that you already have some experience with IVF treatment. Even if you’re not yet in treatment, the idea of personal boundaries will likely be familiar to you. Just as fences between properties can provide protection, security and privacy, personal boundaries protect […]
Choosing the right IVF clinic for your treatment
For those struggling with infertility, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is a widely used treatment option that can help achieve a successful pregnancy. However, choosing the right IVF clinic can be daunting, given the range of options available and the emotional and financial investment required. You notice I said right not best. That’s because another person’s best […]
PGT-A – what is it, how does it work and is it worth the cost?
What is PGT-A? Preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) is a test to screen embryos, which have been made in an IVF cycle, for chromosomal abnormalities. Generally speaking, embryos identified as having chromosomal abnormalities are considered abnormal or aneuploid and are not recommended for transfer. If no abnormality is detected, the embryo is presumed to […]
Taking the Egg Donor route – will the baby look like me?
I know this is important to egg donor recipients – otherwise I wouldn’t be writing about it. And I don’t want to mislead you into reading an entire article only to frustrate you in the final sentence. So here it is: Spoiler alert #1. Maybe the baby will look like you, or maybe they won’t! […]