Symptoms: The main symptom of infertility is the inability to get pregnant. A menstrual cycle that's too long (35 days or more), too short (less than 21 days), irregular or absent can mean that you're not ovulating. There may be no other outward signs or symptoms. Each of these factors is essential to become pregnant: You need to ovulate. To get pregnant, your ovaries must produce and release a ...

FET-IVF Procedure: What to Expect There are two basic kinds of FET-IVF cycles: hormonal support cycles and “natural” cycles. The most commonly performed FET-IVF cycle is a hormonally supported cycle. This is because the day of transfer is easier to control (making it easier for the fertility clinic and lab), and because hormonal support is needed if there are female ovulatory problems. FET With H ...

Infertility : Infertility is the most common health problem nowadays as many couples are facing, as they are unable to conceive. And even if they conceive, they are unable to continue the pregnancy to term. Infertility is “a disease of the reproductive system defined by the failure to achieve a clinical pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse.” Mostly females ar ...

What causes the symptoms of PCOS? Most of the symptoms of PCOS are caused by higher-than-normal levels of certain hormones, called androgens. The ovaries produce hormones, which are chemicals that control functions in the body. One of the hormones that the ovaries make is estrogen—sometimes called the "female hormone" because women's bodies make more of it than men's bodies do. The ovaries also m ...

Ovulation and the Menstrual Cycle: During their reproductive years, women have regular monthly menstrual periods because they ovulate regularly each month. Eggs mature inside of fluid-filled spheres called “follicles.” At the beginning of each menstrual cycle when a woman is having her period, a hormone produced in the pituitary gland, which is located in the brain, stimulates a group of follicles ...

Frozen Embryo Transfer vs. Fresh Embryo Transfer A fresh embryo transfer occurs in the same cycle as the IVF cycle. The eggs are retrieved and fertilized in the lab. The embryos are allowed to develop and are then transferred back into the woman’s uterus around 5-6 days after the retrieval. A frozen embryo transfer is a little bit different. In this type of cycle, a woman undergoes IVF, her eggs a ...

Egg retrieval Egg retrieval can be done in your doctor's office or a clinic 34 to 36 hours after the final injection and before ovulation. During egg retrieval, you'll be sedated and given pain medication. Transvaginal ultrasound aspiration is the usual retrieval method. An ultrasound probe is inserted into your vagina to identify follicles. Then a thin needle is inserted into an ultrasound guide ...

What causes infertility? Infertility may be caused by a number of different factors, in either the male or female reproductive systems. However, it is sometimes not possible to explain the causes of infertility. In the female reproductive system, infertility may be caused by: tubal disorders such as blocked fallopian tubes, which are in turn caused by untreated sexually transmitted infections (S ...