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  • Getting Started
    • Request an Appointment
    • Telehealth
    • New Patient Registration
    • Patient Forms
    • Your First Visit
    • Initial Testing
    • Basic Infertility
    • Why a Fertility Clinic?
    • Why an Infertility Specialist?
  • Our Practice
    • Meet the Doctor
    • Our Team
    • Lab Services
    • Certification
    • History
    • In the Community
  • IVF Success Rates
  • Treatments
    • In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
    • Egg Freezing
    • IUI
    • Donor Egg
    • Donor Sperm
    • Oral Medications
    • Injectable Medications
    • Preimplantation Genetic Testing
    • Endometriosis
    • Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
    • LGBTQ+ Care
  • Resources
    • Make a Payment
    • Patient Forms
    • Patient Resource Links
    • Counseling Services
    • Wellness
    • FAQ’s
    • Out of Town Patients
    • Myths
    • Notice of Nondiscrimination
  • Affording Treatment
    • Fees
    • Insurance
    • Univfy IVF – Affording IVF with RRC We’ve Got ♥
    • Financing
  • Give Us a Call at (913) 894-2323
  • Blog
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The IVF Laboratory

Once your oocytes (eggs) are removed, they are cultured in the IVF laboratory where conditions are tightly controlled.

 

IVF.embryologyDay 0:  Your eggs are counted and evaluated for maturity.  Typically, only mature (metaphase II, also commonly called “M2s”) eggs will accept the sperm and successfully fertilize.    Mature eggs are then fertilized via conventional insemination (the egg and many sperm are placed together in a drop of fluid) or ICSI (the injection of a single sperm into each egg).

Day 1: your eggs are evaluated for fertilization, the fusion or combining of the egg and sperm.   Remember, even with ICSI and the placement of the sperm into the egg, fertilization is not guaranteed.  Fertilized oocytes are now called embryos.

Day 2:  Your embryos are evaluated for growth and development each day.  As the embryo grows (divides) it forms additional cells through a process called cleavage.  On day 2 most normal embryos are comprised of 2-4 cells.

Day 3: Embryos at this stage usually have 6-8 cells.

Day 4: Your embryos continue to grow and develop into a compact ball known as a morula which literally means mulberry.   The embryo is comprised of about 16 cells at this stage.

 

Early_human_embryos

Figure 2. Early Human Embryos Viewed with a Microscope
Top Row:             Left: fertilized egg • Middle: 8 cell (day 3)embryo • Right: cell adhesion
Bottow Row:       Left: morula • Middle: blastocyst (day 5) • Right: hatching embryo

 

Day 5:  On day 5, the embryo develops into a blastocyst, known for its fluid filled cavity.  It should have about 70-100 cells. At the blastocyst stage embryos may be transferred, cryopreserved without fresh transfer ( “freeze all” cycles), or biopsied  for pre-implantation genetic testing (PGT) then cryopreserved.

Day 6:  Embryos still undergoing cleavage will be considered for embryo cryopreservation.  These embryos may be used in future frozen embryo transfer cycles, donated to other couples, donated for research, stored in perpetuity, or discarded.

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Fertility centers around the nation are gearing up to honor 2021’s National Infertility Awareness Week (NIAW), which takes place this year from April 18 to April 24. We encourage anyone who is going through - or been through - fertility treatments to find a way to participate.  Even more importantly,...

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Please note that we will be moving our office from May 14 – May 20th.

Our new office location will be:
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