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Let us help you making your baby. We will describe the whole process highlighting what is expected from you and your partner, how do we go about the surrogate preparation and what will be our role in the whole program.
Genetic Parents: Knowing, what is expected out of you, how to start and when.
- Assessment: Please forward your and your partner's detailed history, investigation reports, surgeries performed, any previous treatment taken, etc. (Assessment form)
- Screening: You need to under go a specific tests to prepare yourself for the program (Genetic couple screening tests)
- Surrogate Selection: It is totally your prerogative in choosing the surrogate for your baby. Our associate partner will advertise in the local newspaper for surrogate requirement on your behalf. Your assessment, screening and selection process will roughly take about 2-5 weeks.
- Down Regulation: Along with the surrogate, you too are started on birth control pills to coordinate the cycles. GnRH analogues will be added in the later half (day 18) of the birth control pills and will continue till one day prior to ovum pick up.
- Stimulation: You will be started on hormonal treatment (Inj. Gonadotropin) to stimulate your ovaries lasting 11-13 days under medical supervision.
- Monitoring: You need to undergo baseline sonography and blood test to confirm the down regulation. Ultrasound guided follicular monitoring will be done by our doctor team.
- Your flight: You need to be with us now. Pack your bags to be here latest by day 6 of stimulation. It will be around 4-6 weeks post surrogate selection.
- Semen Freezing: A semen sample of your partner will be taken (to be frozen) as a back up.
- Ovum Pick-up: Around day 13, ultrasound guided ovum pick will be done under general anaesthesia. You need to get admitted in the hospital for one day.
- Semen Sample: On the same day, your partner needs to provide the semen sample, as fresh sperms always give better fertilization rate.
- Fertilisation / Embryology: IVF / ICSI procedure will be performed in the lab. Fertilisation is checked the next day. The embryos thus formed are incubated further, till the embryo transfer into the surrogate on day 3 / 5.
- Flight back: All what is expected from you in your first trip ends here. You are ready to leave back for your home. Your total stay in India could be as short as 8-10 days.
Surrogate: Here you understand how the surrogate is prepared, just for your baby.
- Profiles: Surrogates profiles are prepared and sent to you for quick reference.
- Screening: The surrogate will be screened (surrogate screening tests) for basic blood examination, infectious diseases, pap smear, genetic karyotyping, hysteroscopy, etc.
- Counseling: The surrogate will be evaluated for her emotional and mental readiness by our Psychiatric team. This will be followed by the surrogate and her husband's counseling enabling them to be familiar with the complete surrogacy program.
- Down Regulation: The surrogate will be started on birth control pills to coordinate with your cycles. This synchronises to obtain mature eggs from you and be transferred into a perfectly prepared endometrium to maximize the pregnancy success rate.
- Endometrial preparation: The surrogate will be started on medications to prepare her endometrium for embryo transfer with natural estrogen and progesterone. Because each woman is a little different; the dose, duration and method of administering these hormones may need to be individualized. This would take approximately 12-14 days.
- Embryo transfer: The embryos are allowed to grow in the lab for several days to make sure they are healthy and dividing properly for somewhere between 2 and 5 days. Transfer will be done to the surrogate on day 2/3 post ovum pick-ups.
- Progesterone support: This support is started for the surrogate prior to the day of embryo transfer and continued for the next 14 days.
- Pregnancy testing: Serum B-HCG levels are tested 14 days later to confirm the pregnancy. If surrogate's pregnancy test is positive, it will be repeated in 48 hours, and possibly repeated a third time in another 48 hours. This is to help assess the quality of the pregnancy.
- Medications: We ask the surrogate to continue taking prenatal vitamins, Extra Folic Acid (4mg), and one baby aspirin (81mg) everyday along with the progesterone support.
Us: What we have our best to give you
- Assessment: Our doctor team, will review you and your spouse with the help of your previous medical records (assessment form)
- Expert opinion: Our fertility physicians will guide you with the best treatment options available. They counsel and sail you through the complete treatment.
- Preparations: We finalise the surrogate identified by you and get her ready to carry the pregnancy to term successfully.
- Togetherness: We form the liaison, monitoring you and your surrogate, bringing together and ensuring the dream is made a reality, making baby a possibility.
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