#What is IVF

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What is IVF? Meaning, Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, and Diet in Simple Terms

Introduction

IVF, or "In Vitro Fertilization," is a process where a woman's egg and a man's sperm are combined in a lab to create an embryo. This embryo is then placed in the woman's uterus to help her get pregnant. IVF is like a little miracle that happens outside the body in a special lab.

Symptoms of IVF

After the IVF process, some women may experience the following symptoms:

Mild Cramps: You might feel some light cramps, similar to period pain.

Spotting: It's common to see light spotting or small blood clots.

Breast Tenderness: Your breasts may feel more sensitive or sore.

Fatigue: You may experience an increase in tiredness.

Mood Swings: Your emotions may change quickly, from happy to sad.

Bloating: Your belly might feel a bit swollen or bloated.

Causes of IVF

IVF is often needed when natural pregnancy is difficult due to:

Fertility Issues: issues with the sperm or egg quality.

Blocked Fallopian Tubes: If the tubes are blocked, eggs and sperm can't meet.

Endometriosis: A condition where tissue similar to the lining inside the uterus grows outside it, affecting fertility.

Ovulation Problems: When eggs are not released regularly.

Uterine Issues: Problems like fibroids or abnormalities that affect embryo implantation.

Genetic Disorders: When either partner has a genetic condition that might be passed on to the baby.

Treatment Process of IVF

IVF treatment includes several steps:

Initial Consultation: Visit a doctor to discuss your problem and create a treatment plan.

Ovarian Stimulation: Medications are given to help the ovaries produce multiple eggs.

Monitoring: The growth of eggs is checked through ultrasound and blood tests.

Sperm Collection: To fertilize the eggs in the lab, sperm is taken.

Embryo Culturing: The embryo is watched as it grows in the lab.

Embryo Transfer: A healthy embryo is placed in the uterus.

Waiting Period: You wait to see if pregnancy symptoms develop.

Pregnancy Test: A test is done to confirm if pregnancy has occurred.

Diet During IVF

Eating the right foods can support the IVF process:

Balanced Diet: Eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins like chicken or fish, and dairy products like milk and yogurt.

Stay Hydrated: To keep your body hydrated, consume a lot of water.

Healthy Fats: Include good fats from avocados, nuts, and olive oil, and avoid unhealthy fats from fried foods.

Limit Processed Foods: Avoid too many processed snacks and sugary drinks.

Moderate Caffeine: A little coffee is okay, but avoid too much caffeine.

Folic Acid: Take folic acid supplements or eat foods rich in folic acid like green leafy vegetables for a healthy pregnancy.

Conclusion

"In Vitro Fertilization," or IVF, is a wonderful but complicated procedure that can help people conceive. Although it can be physically and emotionally challenging, with the right support and guidance, like that provided by Yashoda IVF Centre in Navi Mumbai, you can confidently navigate this journey. Remember, each step, from managing symptoms to adjusting your diet, plays a crucial role in achieving a successful outcome. With determination and the right resources, your dream of building a family can come true.

[fertilitycure]

What Is  IVF

In recent years, advancements in medical science have opened up new avenues for couples struggling with infertility, and one of the most revolutionary solutions is In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) treatment. For those IVF treatment, short for In Vitro Fertilization, involves fertilizing an egg with sperm outside the body and then implanting the fertilized embryo into the uterus. This procedure has proven to be a game-changer for countless couples dealing with various infertility issues, including blocked fallopian tubes, low sperm count, or unexplained fertility problems. Fertility Cure Centres serve as the bridge between science and parenthood, offering comprehensive services to address the unique needs of each couple. facing challenges in conceiving naturally, IVF has become a beacon of hope, providing a ray of light in their journey toward parenthood. At the forefront of this reproductive revolution are Fertility Cure Centres, specialized facilities dedicated to guiding and supporting individuals through the intricate process of IVF.

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What is IVF and how is it done?

In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a process of assisted reproduction where an egg is fertilized with sperm in a laboratory dish. The fertilized egg (embryo) is then transferred to the woman's uterus, where it can implant and grow into a baby.

IVF is a complex process that involves many steps, including:

Stimulating the ovaries: The woman takes fertility medications to stimulate her ovaries to produce multiple eggs.

Egg retrieval: The eggs are retrieved from the woman's ovaries using a needle and ultrasound guidance.

Fertilization: The eggs are fertilized with sperm in a laboratory dish.

Embryo culture: The fertilized eggs are cultured in a laboratory for several days.

Embryo transfer: The best-quality embryos are transferred to the woman's uterus.

The success rate of IVF treatment varies depending on the woman's age and other factors. The average success rate for women under age 35 is about 40%.

IVF is a safe procedure, but it does have some risks, including:

Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome: This is a rare but serious condition that can occur when the ovaries are overstimulated by fertility medications.

Multiple pregnancy: Because multiple embryos are often transferred to the uterus, there is an increased risk of having twins, triplets, or more.

Ectopic pregnancy: This is a serious condition that occurs when a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus.

IVF is a major decision, and it is important to talk to your fertility doctor about the risks and benefits before deciding if it is right for you.

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

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Alabama supreme court rules frozen embryos are ‘children’

Court allows two wrongful death suits against fertility clinic to proceed while decision could impact people seeking IVF.]

absolutely horrifying news coming out of alabama.

the whole article is a terrifying but worthwhile read, but i wanna highlight two passages from it which are just absolutely fucking horrifying.

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Alabama supreme court justice Jay Mitchell wrote that embryos are indeed protected under the state’s existing law: “The central question presented in these consolidated appeals, which involve the death of embryos kept in a cryogenic nursery, is whether the act contains an unwritten exception to that rule for extrauterine children – that is, unborn children who are located outside of a biological uterus at the time they are killed,” he wrote. “Under existing black-letter law, the answer to that question is no: the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applies to all unborn children, regardless of their location.”]

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The Alabama supreme court’s ruling repeatedly references God and the sanctity of life, citing the Bible and biblical scholars including Petrus van Mastricht, Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin. Chief Justice Thomas Parker wrote: “Human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God, who views the destruction of His image as an affront to Himself … this is true of unborn human life no less than it is of all other human life – that even before birth, all human beings bear the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory.”]

[lotties-ashwagandha]

jeff sadecki when you married shauna did you not expect an ex cult leader lesbian to try to unofficially adopt your child and claim it’s what the wilderness wanted because if she couldn’t parent her murderous bi best friend’s wilderness baby then she would have this one? did you think you were going to have a normal life? bah! oh the hoops a lesbian has to jump through nowadays to try to start a family and all it gets is you thrown down the stairs!

[geekeryisafoot]

It amuses me that in vitro fertalization has never come up in Marriage Toxin because it's such an obvious answer to the premise of "Well one of you gay kids needs to man up and pass on the family genes." Except that's just the premise that kickstarts Gero's quest; it's not the actual thing driving the plot. Gero's longing to have people to love and who love him back is the actual driver and core of the story. Jumping straight to IVF wouldn't actually solve anything for Gero or Akari, it would just continue the cycle of family abuse they were and still are subjected to. But if they unpack and break the cycle of abuse, then it becomes a viable way for Gero to get what he wants (and maybe Akari idk we haven't seen enough of her for me to have an opinion on if she would want kids)

Anyway, if I ever get around to writing Marriage Toxin fanfic, it would be two (2) sentences of Gerosaki get together and then 5,000 words of Kinosaki coaching Gero on how to ask his sister if he can get her girlfriend pregnant

[dxmedstudent]

Things to not say to infertile folks:

A lot of people don't really know what to say when discussing infertility, and a lot of people who are struggling with it complain that people say hurtful or triggering things to them - often unintentionally.

So I thought I'd write a guide about what not to say, taken , unfortunatelyfrom hearing or seeing people express these opinions:

You just need to relax/get drunk/go on holiday/not stress so much/not want it so much.

Telling someone to be more relaxed or less stressed doesn't work - kind of like telling someone to calm them down doesn't, in fact, calm them down. It also minimises the fact that a lot of people with fertility problems have actual medical problems causing the situation, which may require treatment or might even be untreatable.

It also comes with the (likely unintentional) implication that it's your fault for not conceiving because unlike everyone else, you're just not relaxing enough. You fail at relaxing. You're doing trying wrong.

So you can't have kids? Like, at all?

Putting aside that it is a little insensitive to say this, technically infertility means that a couple tried to have kids for a year or more but were unsuccessful. Infertility is reduced fertility, and sometimes the term subfertity is seen as more accurate.

People can be told that they have a condition that affects fertility like fibroids, PCOS or endometriosis, but they may still conceive if having unprotected PIV sex and should still use contraception if they do not wish to get pregnant.

This is also why folks on T and folks on oestrogen/progesterone HRT should talk to their team about contraception, whether they are cis or trans. Whilst taking HRT can sometimes reduce fertility it does NOT render you sterile and people often need to use an additional contraceptive.

Sterility means being completely unable to have kids - for example, if you have had both gonads removed.

Infertile couples can sometimes eventually have children unassisted, and most infertile couples manage to conceive with fertility treatment.

Have you tried having sex/tracking ovulation/insert absolutely beginner knowledge here)?

Oh crap, we've been mistakenly putting it up the ass this entire time! Silly me!

Unless you're the couple's doctor and your job is to walk them through every possible issue and make sure nothing is missed, please assume that they have done their research and have the basic stuff down.  Treat people as if they are sensible and competent. Believe people when they say there is a problem. Leave the diagnosing to their fertility team.

Because when you think about it, if a couple have been trying for like 3 years and you ask them if they've tried LH strips, it's kind of patronising.

You didn't become an expert just because you accidentally got pregnant 5 years ago or conceived first try with your second. People who have been struggling with a health problem for years have usually done a ton of reading, speaking to healthcare professionals and lots of tests - they almost certainly know a lot more than you about it.

Oh yeah, I know how you feel! I've been trying for 2 months / hope to have kids and I'm terrified of being infertile, I couldn't stand that. It would ruin my life!

There's a place for sharing your concerns, but please don't expect people suffering a condition to have to console you about how bad it would be for you to live their life. Infertile people don't want to hear that their life is your worst nightmare, it's just a rude thing to tell someone.

Don't tell people with coeliac you'd die if you couldn't eat pasta, don't tell people who are blind that you'd end yourself if you couldn't paint or watch TV. Just ... have some tact.

Ha, being a parent is hard, are you sure you want that? Would you take one of mine?

No, Debra.

Please stop making light of someone's personal grief or disability. This is like making boomer "I hate my wife" jokes to someone who just lost their spouse.

But what do I say, then? I don't know what to say!

I've legitimately seen people say the most insensitive thinfs and then turn around to say this.

But...

You don't have to say anything- believe it or not you don't have to offer an opinion or advice on sonething you know nothing about. They aren't waiting on YOU to fix their problem or give them advice on something a team of specialists hasn't been able to fix.

If someone tells you that they are having fertility issues, just tell them you're sorry to hear that and that you hope it works for them soon. Or ask them if they want to talk about it and let them know you are there to listen.

More things not to say after the cut...

My friend's aunt's cousin was about to have infertility treatment, then they just had twins! I'm sure that will happen for you, when you stop trying!

Everyone tells us their one in a million "miracle stories"... but they just aren't fun to hear, for many people with infertility. They may give some people hope, but they can make people feel even more isolated and unlucky because we KNOW how unlikely it is that we'll have that same luck.

Also for most of us, stopping trying would make actually conceiving and carrying to term extremely unlikely. Please don't discourage people from seeking medical help when they need it.

Well I don't think IVF/using a donor/single parent families/lgbtq families is right/natural.

It's great that you don't need it and don't have to have it, then! But your opinion is kind of irrelevant to everyone else.

Lots of modern medicine isn't natural - and as a doctor, I REALLY don't think "naturalness" or your personal comfort level with a treatment you are completely ignorant about is a relevant metric for how beneficial a medical treatment is to the people who need it. 

We've spent all of human civilisation working to give us more tools (and better ones) to help people. IVF is a tool. It's an accommodation for a disability or inability due to circumstances that lets some people overcome their medical conditions or circumstances.

Are you saying that to cancer patients? To people wearing a cast for their broken arm? To people wearing a prosthesis for their amputated leg? I absolutely hope not. Please do not do that.

Other people's medical treatments are between them and their clinicians. If you don't like it? You're free to not have said treatment. If you don't want kids, you are free to not have any. I'm a passionate advocate for access to reproductive care, contraception and abortion.

But if you're pro abortion, you cannot meaningfully be anti-fertility treatment. Because you either believe in bodily autonomy or you don't. You can't pick and choose only when it benefits you.

I just think that if you can't have kids naturally, then your body/nother nature/God is telling you something and you should just stop trying. Maybe your genes are just bad and shouldn't be spread. Maybe you just wouldn't make a great parent.

Look, nature is stupid. It gives kids type 1 diabetes and genetic conditions that kill them in infancy and gives your loved ones cancer. Do you go around telling everyone that they should just due or accept being permanently seriously ill or disabled because nature gave them an illness? Do you refuse all modern medicine because you should be listening to nature's plan for your body? I bloody well hope not, because that's dumb when modern medicine exists.

There are all sorts of dumb reasons why people are infertile - why would having a tube blocked by endometriosis or slow sperm make someone a bad parent? Why are you literally telling someone to their face, whose meducal problems you dont even understand, that you think they are just too defective to make a family?

Let's stay away from the eugenics, shall we? We could have a nuanced conversation about how genetic testing of embryos can potentially reduce or eliminate rare fatal diseases which kill children and have no hope of a life without significant suffering. And how most couples who have IVF successfully go on to have healthy chikdren who live normal lives. But no, Steve, stopping your mate with a mild varicocele from having children is not going to revolutionise the human race or fulfil some alternate divine fate.

Well, fertility is a first world problem, some people have real problems, we should be focusing on that instead.

Actually, it's a problem for millions of peole, around the world. The IVF industry is huge in certain parts of the Global south, for example India.

People think it's a white rich people problem because most of the people who can  afford to undergo fertility treatment privately or adopt...are the wealthy. But it's always been a problem - that affects people across cultures, socioeconomic groups and sexualities. And infertility has often been accompanied with shame and ostracisation. Stigmatising fertility care hurts everyone. Especially the poor.

Many LGBTQ couples need fertility care - whether because their gender affirming surgery or HRT or health complicates things, or they and their partner's combination of gametes makes things tricky. Making fertility care less taboo and more accessible helps them too. The conversation very often side tracks and ignores them but their struggle is valid too.

You people only want kids because they are brainwashed by the patriarchy. Infertility wouldn't be an issue if women were emancipated and not brainwashed by the patriarchy.

Look, I've been feminist in online spaces since before some of you were born. I'm not unaware of the patriarchy and how it colours our choices.

But we have to stop infantilising women abd removing their agency. I know single women and lesbians who have spent decades working through their issues with the patriarchy...who still want kids and are dealing with fertility treatment. Sure, we will never be entirely free from the many ways society affects us. But that doesn't mean we're all blindly falling into motherhood.

You don't want kids, that's great. But it doesn't mean that every single woman choosing to have them is brainwashed and unable to understand what she is getting into - and it's pretty misogynistic to frame it that way.

Nobody should be having kids because the economy/environment/etc

OK there's a conversation to be had about cutting our carbon footprint and being aware of how our choices affect others and the planet. We should all be trying to live more sustainably - I say as I wear thrifted clothes whilst typing this on the train.

But... are you saying that to able bodied people having kids? Are you sacrificing everything that you want for the cause? Or is the easiest thing to give up the thing that someone else wants? I'm all for encouraging everyone to be mindful of the planet but we shouldn't be restricting the rights of people with a disability to make that happen.

We make choices for ourselves, not for other people.

Why not adopt or foster? Adopt don't shop!

Well this is a whole post in itself...but basically, please assume that anyone who is trying for kids for a while... has at least considered adoption. Please tryst people to choose the right option for them and their family.

Children are not puppies, and the massive adoption industry isn't always ethical or safe, can be hugely expensive (often moreso than IVF in some places!), and also doesn't actually guarantee that they get to have a child at the end of it.

There can be a lot of trauma and complicated feelings for the adopted child and their birth family and many kids need very specialised support that not every potential adoptive parent can provide.

There are also far more infertile couples than kids who need adoption - so not every individualor couple could adopt. Many kids just need temporary fostering with the aim of placing them back with their family, which is important but very different.

I intend to flesh out this argument more in a separate post but IMO adoption should ideally be rare - because birth parents should have free access to contraception, abortion and be empowered and supported to look after and raise their kids within their communities if they want them. Adoption should serve the needs of the child, not the potential parents. And certainly not the agencies.

If you truly believe there are millions of kids out there needing a home, why aren't you adopting? Why aren't you clamouring for every fertile couples to adopt? Because on some level society still that's these kids as a consolation prize. And because many of the people judging infertile couples for having IVF over adoption aren't all that invested in actially learning about these kids or helping them.

Infertile people aren't solely responsible for solving complex societal problems on their own. This is something that we as a whole society need to address.

[khodorkovskaya]

guys i decided to have a baby. not right now. but im gonna make a couple of embryos and freeze them. 🙏

im looking for clinics who do this in europe. and im going to do it in april.

if you know me irl this is a big secret for now.

[thetardisisnotourdivision]

Hey did I ever tell y'all about the time I dreamed that I had a baby daughter called Ellie that began with my finding out I was pregnant and ended on like her third birthday?

I legitimately woke up thinking "I should go check on Ellie" and then realised she was never real and when I tell you I SOBBED. I've been haunted by an implacable sense of loss ever since. Did I travel to another dimension? Wtf happened because that was insane.

[taamlok]

can you guys tell i'm a lesbian by the way i'm like "yeah idk i don't think very much about astarion and eurydice's sex life, it's just normal ig" versus the way veilguard isn't even out yet and i've written over 5000 words of dragonomaly smut and spent all of last night writing a 5 year post-game tentative headcanon/possible au where muireann is pregnant with taash's baby and they're doing domestic bliss on muireann's brigantine

[muchmossymess]

Banning myself from using words ever again I just called IVF eggpreg

[ofide]

whoever writes informative pages about medical conditions that exclusively focus on how they affect fertility and don’t even mention that they cause debilitating pain should lose their job

[soaps-mohawk]

Is it bad that I don’t want to give birth? Like, I told some of my friends and family that I don’t want to give birth and they told me that I’d change my mind and I told them I wouldn’t and they get mad at me. I told them that I’d adopt kids instead to give them a home and living family but they say that doesn’t matter and count because they won’t be biological.

That's not bad at all!! I know a lot of people that feel the same way. Hell, I feel the same way. I don't want to give birth and I'm very against having children. I've known that pretty much my whole life since I was old enough to conceptualize children and parenthood (very young as a woman growing up in America), and I was always told I'd change my mind someday.

Well, it's been about 20 years and I haven't changed my mind at all. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it. The constant societal pressure that every generation has gone through of "you have to have children otherwise your life is meaningless" has very much been challenged as of late with plenty of people realizing your life doesn't end as soon as you're old enough to have children. A lot of those people pushing that narrative shouldn't have had kids in the first place. The world would probably be a lot better off if people that didn't want kids but were pressured into it by society just hadn't given into that pressure.

There's plenty of neglected, abandoned children, and children in foster care that deserve love and support. So yeah, if you don't want to give birth, then there's nothing to feel bad about. You've made that decision and anyone that tries to tell you otherwise is only recycling the same societal pressures that probably made them have children they didn't want.

And if anyone says adopted or fostered children don't count, then kindly say fuck them and don't speak to them again. Same with people that say IVF or children born of surrogates. Just because you didn't give birth to your child no matter the reason, that doesn't make them "not your child." Hell I know there's people out there that say C-sections aren't "giving birth" because it wasn't natural.

Yeah, fuck those people and do what you want. It's your body, it's your life and they can either get over it or get out of your life 🤷

[swagging-back-to]

wait. wait. im rewatching severance and theres a clip in se 1 ep 3 where it shows mark watching an interview with natalie.

the reporter asks her 'well what do you say to the woman who became pregnant one month after her company became severed?'

ive seen lots of people talk about pregnancy at lumon a LOT. whether they have spatially-activated birth control that turns on when they hit the floor, or if they have women walking out pregnant all the time.

it seems like it's the latter.

and judging the fact they rely heavily on child labor? i dont think it's a coincidence or an 'oopsie' on their part. theyre also tied to the ivf treatments gemma was receiving, making me believe it's actually possible some of these women werent being impregnated through 'natural' means.

i cant even imagine how utterly violated and disgusted i would be if i discovered i was pregnant because of something that happened on the severed floor. thats a whole other level of fucked up. for every single person involved.