Why GIVF Fertility for In Vitro Fertilization?
Established in 1984, GIVF Fertility has decades of experience in pioneering cutting-edge assisted reproductive technologies. Our expert physicians, scientists, and patient care team utilize proven techniques to provide our in vitro fertilization (IVF) patients with the best chance of achieving a healthy pregnancy. Our IVF program offers you the following benefits:
- Experienced, compassionate physicians and staff who are dedicated to providing personalized, high-quality care and a full range of fertility treatment options.
- A comprehensive fertility center that offers solutions for all of your fertility needs, all under one roof. Our center includes our in-house sperm bank, egg bank, and preimplantation genetic testing lab, and we can arrange on-site meetings with a representative from our affiliated surrogacy agency.
- Expertise from pioneers and innovators in the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and in reproductive genetics.
What Is IVF and Who Can Benefit from IVF Treatment?
For pregnancy to occur, an egg must be fertilized by a sperm. When fertilization happens inside the body, it’s called in vivo fertilization. When fertilization happens outside of the body, it’s called in vitro fertilization, or IVF.
There are many reasons a patient may have difficulty getting pregnant. Some include damaged fallopian tubes, male factor infertility, endometriosis, or unexplained infertility, and GIVF Fertility can help treat infertility. We also treat patients interested in preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) or PGT for sex selection.
IVF treatments are also helpful to patients in the LGBTQ+ community, older patients and patients with low ovarian reserve, patients who have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), and patients with premature ovarian failure.
How Does the IVF Process Work?
In an unassisted pregnancy, an egg must be released from the ovary and united with a sperm. Fertilization then takes place in the fallopian tube, which connects the uterus to an ovary. To understand IVF, it is helpful to understand the typical 28-day menstrual cycle shown below.
With IVF, the union occurs in a laboratory after the eggs and sperm have been collected. Simply put, an IVF cycle is an exaggeration of the first half of your regular menstrual cycle—the follicular phase. The same things that occur during a normal menstrual cycle occur in an IVF cycle, and in the same order. However, instead of one follicle producing one egg, the goal is to stimulate multiple follicles in both ovaries, thereby producing multiple eggs.
The primary difference between an IVF cycle and a regular menstrual cycle is that eggs are retrieved at the point of maturation and are fertilized in the IVF lab. Embryos are then transferred to the uterus to initiate pregnancy. Once the embryos are transferred back into the uterus, there is nothing distinguishable between embryos fertilized in the body or in an IVF laboratory.
IVF is also used in conjunction with several other fertility treatments, such as donor egg IVF, Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI), and fertility preservation methods.
The IVF Lab at the GIVF Fertility
GIVF Fertility utilizes state-of-the-art equipment in our specially configured lab, where our embryologists use laser-based micromanipulation for assisted hatching and embryo biopsy.
Since our labs are all in-house, our embryologists work closely with your reproductive endocrinologists to assure that the fertilization, development, and selection of embryos for transfer will be performed at the highest level of professional excellence. Patients can have confidence that our highly experienced expert team of embryologists can help turn their dream of having a child into a reality.
