IVF – FAQs

A couple is considered to be infertile if they have not conceived after a year of unprotected intercourse A woman over 35, or a woman who is known to suffer from endometriosis, PCOS etc should seek medical help only after 6 months of unprotected intercourse.

Please refer to detailed IVF page under treatments offered section.

We retrieve eggs under short general anaesthesia hence, you don’t feel any pain. Embryo transfer is not a painful procedure and is just like IUI procedure.

One to two days approximately.

Open and laparoscopic surgeries have almost same cost. Robotic surgery is a little more expensive in view of the cost of the equipment’s.

The rate of birth defect in natural conception is approximately 4%. IVF may have risk slightly more than that but ICSI has approximately 6% (not a significant difference from the natural conception)

Depending upon the age of the patient up to 3 embryos can be transferred

Yes, but only for few hours on the day of egg retrieval as it is done under general anesthesia

No, we don’t advise any rest after the embryo transfer except for half an hour as studies do not show any positive effect of rest on conception rate or pregnancy.