IVF preparation blog series.
Egg quality is the quiet engine behind so much of fertility. It influences whether an egg fertilizes, whether an embryo develops, whether it implants, and whether a pregnancy holds. So when someone asks me what they can do before IVF, this is often where I point first. Here’s the honest version. Age and genetics set…
Walk into any conversation about IVF prep and you’ll get handed a supplement list a mile long. Some of it has real science behind it. A lot of it is marketing dressed up as medicine. Knowing the difference saves you money, and it keeps you from chasing pills instead of doing the things that matter…
There may be no stretch of the fertility process quite like the two-week wait after transfer. You’ve done everything. The cycle, the retrieval, the transfer. And now you’re asked to simply wait, with nothing left to do and everything on the line. It’s one of the hardest kinds of waiting there is. So let me…
IVF is not one procedure with one recipe. The medications, the doses, and the timing can be tailored in a lot of ways, and that tailoring can genuinely affect how a cycle goes. So one of the most useful things you can do is make sure you actually have a personalized IVF protocol, not one…
Most couples are handed an IVF start date and a calendar of injections, and that’s about it. The weeks before the cycle, the part you actually have some control over, barely get mentioned. That always struck me as backwards, because those weeks are where some of your best leverage lives. Here’s the short version. The…