Infertility Solutions -- Philosophy

Philosophy

A traditional approach to the problem of infertility is to perform a standardized work-up to exclude major causes of infertility and then wait for pregnancy to occur. Such an approach does not take advantage of recent scientific advances in our understanding of reproductive physiology.

At Infertility Solutions, P.C., our objective is to perform a targeted rapid evaluation of the couple before moving to providing help to make pregnancy occur as quickly as possible using the technologies that are available. Testing is done to help determine choices of therapy that are going to be most effective. Any therapy is undertaken for a limited number of tries before re-evaluation. The couple then either undergoes further testing or moves to a more advanced therapy. We believe that this targeted therapy is both more cost efficient and time effective than other approaches to infertility care.

Infertility care can be the most stressful event that a couple has ever experienced. Our patients are seen in a comfortable, private setting. Our professional staff understand the problems that the couple is experiencing and are able to provide a caring environment in which therapy can take place. Professional psychologists are also available as needed.

Our IVF and other programs do not exclude patients with a poor prognosis based on their history, examination or laboratory testing (such as elevated day 3 FSH levels). Our approach is to very directly explain their poor prognosis to them and if they still wish to proceed with therapy, we will help them to try to achieve pregnancy using the technologies that are available. This hurts our IVF results compared to programs that don't do this, but it helps many patients who have no other place to turn. Some patients with a poor prognosis do get pregnant. Some patients need to try everything possible before moving on to adoption or donor eggs.

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