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Fertility Treatments Q & A

What are fertility treatments?

Fertility treatments help you conceive when you’re experiencing difficulties. No matter why having a baby is proving challenging for you, the CARE Fertility team is here to help with a customized infertility treatment plan. 

The practice’s doctors have years of hands-on experience with the many options now available. They have been through fertility treatments themselves and understand how distressing infertility can be.

Their state-of-the-art facility, which has its own embryology lab, can provide whatever fertility treatment best suits your needs.

What fertility treatments might I need?

The fertility treatments available at CARE Fertility include:

In vitro fertilization (IVF)

Stimulated or conventional IVF is the most common form of IVF. It uses fertility drugs to stimulate the ovaries so they produce multiple eggs. 

Your doctor harvests the eggs, then combines them with your partner’s or a donor’s sperm in the lab and incubates them. After they’ve grown sufficiently, your doctor implants the embryos into your uterus.

Reciprocal IVF enables both partners in a same-sex female couple to share in the IVF process. Your doctor implants embryos created from one partner’s eggs and donor sperm into the other partner’s uterus so she can carry the pregnancy to term.

Another, more affordable option is effortless IVF® using the INVOcell device.

LGBTQ+ family building

Regardless of either partner’s gender identity or sexual orientation, the CARE Fertility team is committed to helping you build the family you dream of. They offer personalized treatment delivered with compassionate care.

Fertility preservation

Fertility preservation involves collecting and freezing sperm, eggs, or fertilized eggs. It’s an ideal solution if you want to have children in the future but can’t do so at present.

Intrauterine insemination (IUI)

IUI is a straightforward fertility treatment where your doctor selects healthy sperm and places them in your uterus.

Tubal reversal

Tubal ligation or sterilization blocks the fallopian tubes to prevent pregnancy permanently. Reversing the procedure may be possible for some women, however.

What part do donors play in fertility treatment?

Donated eggs, sperm, and embryos are vital in helping people with severe fertility problems.

Donor eggs and sperm

If infertility issues are due to a problem with the woman’s eggs or the man’s sperm, one option is to use carefully screened donated eggs and sperm.

Donor embryos

Some couples who successfully create their families using IVF choose to donate their remaining embryos. This generosity offers hope to people when they have few other options.

Another option that could help you is a gestational carrier. A gestational carrier is a surrogate — a woman who agrees to have your embryo implanted in her uterus. The gestational carrier, who undergoes extensive screening, gives you the baby following delivery.

To find out which fertility treatments best suit your needs, call CARE Fertility today or book an appointment online.