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Category Archives: Donor Egg IVF
ReproGeneis Clinic of Reproductive Medicine in Brno, Czech Republic recently announced the addition of a new English speaking doctor. Dr. Martin Valachovic joins Dr. Tomas Vrana and the team and happens to be treating a lot of my English speaking … Continue reading
Posted in Czech, Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, egg donation, egg donor, embryo donation, IVF Success Rates
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I found this recent article from the UK that talks about a series of public events held in London addressing the perceptions of donor conceived individuals. In this case, they were primarily talking with and about adult children conceived with donor … Continue reading
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The lastest publishing of the US SART IVF clinic success rates for 2011 has led to some interesting discussions about how to best use the SART or CDC data. It also identified a few scenarios where the data simply isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in CCS - comprehensive chromosome screening, choose a clinic, Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, egg donor, egg freezing, embryo donation, Fertility News, frozen donor eggs, IVF Success Rates
Tagged lower cost donor egg ivf
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The 2011 IVF and donor egg IVF success rates were published by SART, and we see some interesting changes in the top clinic statistics. The United States national average live birth rates for a fresh donor egg cycle is 54.9% … Continue reading
I am honored and excited to have been selected to join the Advisory Board of the nonprofit Parents Via Egg Donation as their IVF Abroad Advisor. It is truly a distinguished group of colleagues on this board and I am … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, egg donation, egg donor, Fertility News, IVF Treatment Abroad
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I am often asked about the differences of using frozen donor eggs (unfertilized donor eggs from an egg bank) vs. doing a fresh donor egg cycle. Here are a few things to consider: The benefits to frozen donor eggs (not … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, Fertility News, frozen donor eggs, IVF Treatment Abroad
Tagged ASRM, donor egg bank, donor egg pricing, egg freezing experimental, frozen donor egg success rates
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One of my first clinic visits on this trip to the Czech Republic was to the well respected clinic Gennet. Several years ago I had visited their original ART center (it is a full women’s center), but just last year they … Continue reading
Posted in Czech, Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, egg donor, embryo donation, IVF Treatment Abroad
Tagged embryo adoption, Gennet, IVM, London, prague
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Over the next few days, I will be traveling throughout Czech visiting the most popular IVF clinics and hearing all about their latest advances and technologies on the horizon. We’ll be talking about own egg IVF treatments, ICSI, PICSI, IMSI (for any … Continue reading
Posted in Czech, Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, egg donor, embryo donation, IVF Vacation, Male Factor, travel, Uncategorized
Tagged aCGH, frozen donor eggs, IVF, PGD, PGS, prague, travel
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So often in my work, I encounter women who have truly been through infertility hell – with so many heartbreaking losses on their path to parenthood. We often talk about grief and those losses along the way - the loss of the … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, egg donor
Tagged genetic connection, grief, loss, miscarriage
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I truly feel fortunate that I am able to do a job that I absolutely love. What an amazing job it is, in that I get to play a role in helping clients expand their families! This week, a wonderful client … Continue reading
Most of the IVF clinics abroad that my patients go to for treatment are doing 5 day transfers for the majority of IVF or donor IVF cycles. There is the occasional clinic that will suggest a 3 day transfer routinely, but most … Continue reading
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Tagged 3 day transfer, 3 day vs. 5 day transfer, 5 day transfer, embryologist, embryology lab
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In this prior post, I talked about the differences in embryo donation programs in the US and abroad. According to many people in the US who are waiting for donor embryos, it can take over a year of searching clinics to … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, egg donor, IVF Treatment Abroad
Tagged affordable, anonymous donor, donor sperm, embryo adoption, embryo donation, eSET, FET
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An interesting question was posed recently suggesting that virtually all overseas egg donors are being exploited if their home country had limits on egg donor compensation. Unlike the United States, where donors can set their own compensation (although many clinics and … Continue reading
Posted in Czech, Donor Egg IVF, egg donor, IVF Treatment Abroad
Tagged ASRM, donor compensation, egg donor, egg donor compensation, egg donor exploitation, literacy
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Couples from Ireland considering cross-border surrogacy have long been left in legal limbo when trying to secure citizenship for children born to surrogates outside of Ireland. This has caused many children to be left in legal limbo, creating heartache and … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, Fertility News, IVF Treatment Abroad, surrogacy
Tagged cross-border surrogacy, donor egg, donor sperm, Ireland, Ireland surrogacy, Irish, IVF Abroad
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Recently, I have been in communication with a clinic in the Czech Republic that is using Embryo Monitoring in their IVF practice both for non-donor egg IVF and for donor egg IVF treatments. They have reported that they are seeing about … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, Fertility News, IVF Success Rates, IVF Treatment Abroad
Tagged czech, donor egg ivf, embryo, embryo monitoring, EmbryoSense, fragmentation, IVF, IVF Success Rates, nuclei, pronuclei, Unisense FertiliTech A/S
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The American Journal of Perinatology Feb 2012 issue includes a study by Columbia University Medical Center indicating that older women who are pregnant with donor eggs are not at a higher risk of obstetrical complications than their younger counterparts who were … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, Fertility News, Pregnancy over 50
Tagged American Journal of Perinatology, Columbia University Medical Center, donor egg ivf, pregnancy complications
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The SART 2010 US IVF clinic statistics have been released. As I talked about in this post, just statistics alone are not the only thing to consider, but it does give us just one more piece of data to throw … Continue reading
Today, Pfizer issued a recall for certain lots of birth control pills. It affects Lo/Ovral and generic Norgestrel 0.3 mg/Ethinyl Estradiol 0.03 mg tablets. The full list of affected medications and lots can be found here: http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm289770.htm You may wonder … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, Fertility News, Treatment protocols
Tagged birth control pills, donor egg ivf, IVF, Pfizer
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Recently I’ve been asked on several occasions about how the frozen donor embryo programs abroad compare to what is available in the US. So, I thought I would share a bit more about the similarities and differences. Generally speaking, the embryo … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, donor embryos, IVF Treatment Abroad
Tagged affordable, CGH, Czech Republic, donor egg ivf, donor embryo, donor embryos, donor sperm, embryo adoption, embryo donation, FET, frozen donor embryo, frozen embryo transfer, genetics, IVF, low cost, PGD, same sex couples, SMC
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Statistics….in fertility, everyone seems to love to talk about statistics. And when it comes to IVF and donor egg IVF treatments, often it is one of the factors most relied on when selecting a doctor or clinic. And for a good … Continue reading
Posted in Donor Egg IVF, IVF Treatment Abroad
Tagged CDC, donor egg, donor ivf, embryo, embryologist, eSET, FET, frozen embryo transfer, IVF, IVF Abroad, IVF Success Rates, IVF treatment, pregnancy rates, SART
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