What do you know about in vitro fertilization?

Question

I'm just curious. My husband and I are trying to have a baby and we haven't reached the stage of considering something like this, but Iike to be well informed. I heard it can be expensive. Do you know of any other effective fertilization methods that can help you conceive?

Answer 1

You sound a lot like me, dot all of the i's and cross the t's. My husband and I tried the natural way of getting pregnant for five years...rhythm, ovulation prediction, standing on my head:) artificial insemination with drugs and artificial hormones injections galore followed that. I personally think if you can't get pregnant naturally you should skip right to ICSI. It seemed like everything else was designed to take our money and leave us barren and devastated. ICSI is a process where they give you hormones to produce eggs, they harvest the eggs and then take an individual sperm and inject it directly in to the egg. We had our eggs harvested one year ago today and we now have a healthy beautiful little 12 week old girl. The expense total was 48,000 and defiantly had an impact on our family. We could only afford the one try since our insurance (Cigna) wouldn't cover a thing. Shame on them. We got lucky, don't forget the emotional impact of not being successful. (We had 6 tries at insemination, and every month there is that glimmer of hope) Make sure you have a great support system intact-mother, sister, Friends...it is a long sad road hopefully with a joyous outcome. Keep in mind too that adoption can take a longgggg time, you might want to start the process as soon as you start with artificial methods of fertilization. I recommend an organization called Bethany. Good luck to you and yours, happy holidays.

Answer 2

IVF can be very expensive. Between meds, monitoring, the egg retrieval and transfer, it can cost up to $12K in some areas of the country. IVF is also a "last resort". There are other things, such as IUI, that will be tried first...if you even need that kind of help.

First step, once you've been trying for a year, is to go to a reproductive endocrinologist. The RE will run some hormone tests on you, a sperm analysis test on him, as well as check to see if you are ovulating and your tubes are clear.

If the tubes are clear, and he has a decent count, if you aren't ovulating they will put you on Clomid to help with that. If your tubes aren't clear, it's straight to IVF for you. If the tubes are clear, you're ovulating, but he doesn't have good sperm, they will want to go to IUI. He can also take Fertility Blend for Men to help with that. :)

There is a lot more information about IVF, but it really does depend on what you want to know. I have been TTC for almost 3 years, have done one IUI with Clomid (unsuccessful) and just completed a 14 page essay on infertility that mainly centers around IVF. :) I'm full of research - you can message me on yahoo if you have other questions that maybe I can help with.

Answer 3

My husband and I have been trying to have a baby for over 2 years and are currently going through IUI treatments(intrauterine insemination) this is the step before IVF. IUI can be about 1000 per treatment and IVF is usually over 10,000 per treatment. If the IUI doesn't work we will most likely go on to IVF as our insurance covers 100% of infertility treatments(we are lucky). I wish you lots of luck and hope you have no need to use IUI or IVF!

Answer 4

If you haven't seen the doctor yet, I would. There can me many things that may be inhibiting you from getting pregnant. You may not ovulate, he may have a low sperm count... The doctor can do many tests to determine what the problem is. There is a drug that you can take to help you ovulate, if that's the problem. Best of luck to you.

Answer 5

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