22May
25Apr
Laser Assisted Hatching (LAH) Technology
What is Laser Assisted Hatching? A human embryo has a soft outer ‘shell’ called the zona pellucida (or zona for short). When an embryo is five or six days old and is at the stage known as a blastocyst, it needs to hatch out of the...
21Jun
IVF injections: Tips for fertility shots
For women pursuing in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), you will most likely be given fertility medications for ovarian stimulation. These medications come in the form of injections and are usually self- administered. It can be a challenging experience to have multiple IVF injections a day, even for...
14Jun
Process of IVF (A step by step guide)
Step 1: Ovarian Stimulation Ovarian stimulation facilitates the retrieval of multiple oocytes during oocyte pick up (OPU) procedure in an IVF cycle. In order to retrieve multiple oocytes, the ovaries are stimulated through daily administration of fertility medications. Throughout the course of stimulation, the follicles in...
05Apr
Egg freezing to preserve fertility
Elective egg freezing is an option for women to preserve fertility and conceive later in life. This means that eggs with better reproductive potential (harvested at a younger age) are available when one becomes older. Frozen eggs can then be thawed, fertilised and transferred...
05Mar
What are the most common fertility treatments? Which is most suitable for me?
In order to achieve a pregnancy, the egg has to be fertilised by the sperm. Fertilisation is the fusion of an egg and a sperm to form an embryo. Fertilisation can occur in-vivo (inside body such as conceiving by natural means) or in-vitro (outside the...
27Oct
IVF Case Study #1 – PCOS with low sperm count
Mrs Allie (not actual name) is a 34-year-old female. Mr. Allie is a 43-year-old male, a social smoker and drinker. Mr. and Mrs. Allie were married for 2 years and have been trying to conceive a baby naturally. However, they had no success in conceiving. They were...
07Oct
Factors contributing to your IVF success rates
With all things considered in an IVF programme, success rate remains an important question that most couples have in mind before undergoing treatment. These are some factors that contribute to the outcome of the treatment: (more…)
05Nov
