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“Egg-citing Times: Understanding Ovarian Stimulation for IVF"

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  At this point, you and your partner have both completed your fertility assessments, the physician has probably concluded by now that the infertility experienced is either due to the male partner or female partner or both or frustratingly, no known cause could be identified 😖😖😖 Now are you considering IVF treatment to start your family? If so, you have probably heard about ovarian stimulation, a crucial step in the IVF process that involves stimulating the ovaries to produce multiple eggs for fertilization. In this article, we will take look at how ovarian stimulation works in IVF and what you can expect during this initial phase of your fertility journey (this does not apply in situation of donor egg gamete). So, what is ovarian stimulation? During IVF, the goal is to retrieve as many healthy eggs as possible from the ovaries. Ovarian stimulation is the process of using medications to encourage the ovaries to produce multiple mature eggs instead of the one egg that typically d