Fertility Education

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Egg freezing allows eggs to be harvested, medically frozen and securely stored in an egg bank. Eggs can be thawed, fertilized and transferred after completing cancer treatment.

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Fertility drugs can help with pregnancy based on your health history and infertility causes, learn more about the options available. About 20% of couples who desire children are unable to conceive without medical help.  Fertility drugs are often the first and most common treatment of infertility for women.

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A frozen embryo transfer is a cycle where embryos that came from a prior in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle are thawed and transferred back into the woman’s uterus. Thanks to the advances in cryopreservation techniques, frozen embryo transfers have become quite successful in recent years.

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The first IVF baby was born in 1978. It took another six years before medical experts were able to perfect the embryo freezing and unfreezing technique. The first birth from a frozen embryo took place in 1984. The embryo had been frozen for just two months.

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If you are using in vitro fertilization to start a family, you may have already undergone a cycle of fresh embryo transfer which was unsuccessful. If you have viable frozen embryos available, you can use them next time you try to get pregnant. Alternatively, if you did have a child as a result of your fresh embryo transfer, and you would like to have a second child, you will be all set to use your previously frozen embryos for transfer. 

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Some women who are undergoing fertility treatment have embryos left over after the first cycle. To avoid wasting these, you can have them frozen, to be used in later cycles if desired. Only the highest quality embryos will be chosen for freezing. Embryos can be frozen at several different stages of development such as when they are comprised of a single cell or when they have divided into two to eight cells.