There are going to be many important moments throughout the course of your in Vitro Fertilisation treatment. One of them is the egg retrieval, the procedure during which your doctor will collect eggs from your ovaries to be used in the IVF laboratory in order to make your dream of becoming a mother come true. […]
The frozen embryo transfer is a treatment we perform at our fertility clinic in Spain in cases where we were able to freeze embryos that were previously created in a cycle of in vitro fertilisation treatment, regardless of whether the embryos were made using own eggs or donor eggs (egg donation). When IVF or egg […]
Deciding to undergo IVF treatment in another country is a big step: exciting, hopeful, and sometimes a little overwhelming. One of the first questions patients ask us is how long they’ll need to be away from home. Right after that comes the next big concern: which country and which fertility clinic should they trust with something […]
For a number of years, Assisted Reproduction Techniques have formed part of our daily lives as another way to have children and build a family. Assisted reproduction techniques have made it possible for males with severe sperm disorders, who in many cases would have never been able to impregnate their partners, to be parents today. Testing […]
In the midst of the “natural”, “super” and “enemy” foods debate, at our fertility clinic in Spain we want to talk to you about foods that focus on fertility. And this is because there are several inaccuracies or false misconceptions that, repeated thousands of times, seem to have become true. Are there foods that can […]
Today in our real stories section we have Isabel’s testimony for you. A patient and a loyal follower of our social networks, she’s always keeping an eye out for our posts and she brightens our mornings by sending us pictures of her little girl growing up. Her “little girl” who is already 15 years old […]
The functioning of our cells, tissues, organs and in general the entire physiology of our body is regulated by hormones, or the endocrine system. Hormones are one of the molecules responsible for the normal functioning of our bodies’ systems, including the reproductive system. However, in our day‑to‑day lives we are exposed, to some extent, to […]
A spontaneous miscarriage is one of the most common complications of pregnancy and occurs in 10 to 15% of clinical pregnancies (pregnancies which we’ve initially been able to visualise on an ultrasound). Miscarriages can occur whether the pregnancy was conceived naturally or through assisted reproduction treatment. It is considered to be a spontaneous miscarriage when the […]
There is some terminology in assisted reproduction that is used pretty frequently. At our fertility clinic in Spain we make every effort to clarify all these concepts for our patients, as you can see by looking through our blog. Today we’d like to talk to you about ectopic pregnancies and explain, in detail, what they […]
The demands of society nowadays mean that pregnancy at the age of 40 is becoming increasingly more frequent. In today’s day and age, maternity forms part of our mid to long-term goals. However, we don’t have a good grasp on the reality of our reproductive functioning or the fertility prognosis of the human species. Personal circumstances, […]