Increasing Pregnancy Rates When Going Through IVF

Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Brian Kaplan, a Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist at Fertility Centers of Illinois.

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What does the very large study qhwew you were involved evaluating 66,051 transfers over 6+ years tell us about whether it is best to transfer a single embryo or two or more embryos if your aim is to have the best chance at pregnancy?
Why not try for twins if you are fine with having two children? Why not get two for the price of one?
Single embryo transfers are increasing. Is this because of the push we’ve heard in the last 5-10 years or other reasons?
What are the reasons a doctor or patient might want a double embryo transfer?
How many embryos are frozen in one straw?
Can embryos be thawed and then refrozen?
Day 3 or Day 5 transfer? Impact of recent research presented on the changes this field has seen in the day of transfer based on a woman’s age and diagnosis.
Why would you choose to transfer on Day 3? Why not wait until Day 5?
Frozen embryo transfer vs. fresh embryo transfer.
Are there advantages to doing a frozen embryo transfer over a fresh embryo transfer?
Use of PGS to improve quality of embryos being transferred with the hopes of increasing live birth rates and decreasing miscarriages. How effective is it?
High cost has made it a hard choice for some patients. How much does preimplantation genetic diagnosis cost? How much does NGS (Next Generation DNA Sequencing) cost?
How effective is NGS (Next Generation DNA Sequencing)?