Dr. Lucky Sekhon

The drop-off still happens.

The inefficiency doesn't magically go away.

But we counteract it by working with not just one, two, or three eggs, but hopefully multiple.

And that's why egg count matters.

The more you start with, the more you end up with.

At the embryo stage, you can put the embryo in the uterus right away.

You could freeze the embryos.

You can test the embryos, which is what I do in majority of cases.

Because it's nice to be able to say, okay, we froze these embryos.

Now the report comes out a week or two weeks later.

Which ones are healthy and which ones, oh, these would not implant or would maybe result in a miscarriage.

We're not going to use these.

And we use one embryo at a time nowadays.

That's modern IVF.

And we thaw it out.

98% will survive the thaw.

We place it at the top of the uterus in a procedure that feels easier than a pap smear.

It takes five minutes.

And eight days later, we get a lot of positive pregnancy tests.

But sometimes it takes more than one to get there.