fertility

For those new to infertility and looking into various treatments, below you can see a guideline of costs involved. It's a rather expensive process, but if you achieve in the end what you plan out to, then it's all worth it.

All prices quoted are in USD.

IVF Procedure

A. Hormonal and sonographic monitoring
B. Ultrasonographic egg retrieval
C. Sperm preparation
D. Embryo culture
E. Embryo transfer
F. Pregnancy test

$ 7000 (no medications are included)

Fertility Awareness Methods (FAM), also known as Natural Family Planning (NFP), is a methodology that allows you to understand your body’s natural functioning with regard to your reproductive system and gives you a basic understanding about your fertility. This awareness allows you and your partner to make informed choices regarding conceiving or avoiding pregnancy using natural family planning methods.

Your health can impact your fertility and if you are planning on having a baby, you need to be aware of some lifestyle factors that could affect your ability to conceive.

Smoking
Besides the various obvious health problems associated with smoking, it is less well known but true that smoking can adversely affect the fertility of both men and women.

Fertility or the lack of it has over the years, led to many myths and misconceptions. These often come from hearsay, old wives tales or poor advice.

Most often, these myths and misconceptions either cause a delay in getting appropriate treatment for infertility which mayn be corrected with timely diagnosis or can lead to other physical, psychological or social complications.

Infertility is the term generally used to indicate the inability of a couple having normal, unprotected sex for over a year to conceive.

Fertility is normally taken for granted. Couples imagine that getting pregnant is easy and often put a lot of effort into trying to avoid that very eventuality. Until one day, they feel they're ready and decide it's time to start a family. They do away with contraception and eagerly await the signs that will tell them that "it's happened"!!

And they try, and they try, and still, nothing happens!

Although the effect of the environment on fertility is not very well understood as yet, studies conducted point towards there being a definite link between the environment and reproductive problems. Indications are that toxins present in environmental chemicals and pollutants do play an important part in causing infertility, in successfully carrying a baby to term and in the health of offspring.