minimal Stimulation Ivf

We understand you are anxious to conceive, have a busy life, and are probably looking for the easiest, least expensive, and most common sense approach to conceiving.

The Gentle and Natural IVF Experience

That’s why we make so much effort in providing you with the most gentle and natural fertility. Minimal stimulation IVF-ICSI and natural IVF treatments allow you just that, a very effective and simply the easiest IVF experience available today. Minimal stimulation IVF-ICSI and natural IVF treatments allow you just that, a very effective and simply the easiest IVF experience available today.

Minimal Stimulation IVF was developed by Reproductive specialists in Japan and is more common place in Europe to reduce costs while maintaining the same success rates. For older patients, the success rate is even higher than with conventional IVF. Since 2007 our center is the first in Utah to successfully perform these on a routine basis thus perfecting the art and providing patients with a much less expensive option.

Minimal Stimulation IVF is designed to recruit only a few (but high quality) eggs, thus avoiding the risks of hyperstimulation, reducing the number of injections and dramatically reducing the cost of medications. Several years ago, Nobel prize winner Robert Edwards, M.D. spoke to the Reproductive community and in essence said we need to reduce the number of eggs developed in the reproductive cycle to return to a more natural method of conception while still benefitting from the available technology. The English IVF Pioneer, Dr. Robert Edwards, who in 1978 had the first successful IVF pregnancy once again shows his genius and yet so few have taken his ideas to the patient.

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How Mini-IVF Works: A Simpler, Effective Approach

This mini-IVF utilizes oral medications including low dose Clomid within the first few days of your menstrual cycle then augments the developing follicles if necessary with a very low “booster” dose of gonadotropins (FSH/LH). At the right time, we either rely on your own LH (ovulatory) surge or artificially induce it and at the appropriate time retrieve the available mature eggs and fertilize them. Clomid blocks estrogen’s stimulation of LH release, and so also prevents premature ovulation. Thus, with this simple change in protocol, the age old inexpensive Clomid is able to stimulate the development of smaller number of better quality eggs for IVF.

For many years, I had thought about clomid IVF cycles and desired to start them but our pregnancy success with traditional IVF was so high, I told myself why change a good thing. It wasn’t until Dr. Edwards came out with his suggestions to return to recruiting only a few of the best eggs in the cycle as well as my teaming up with a new embryologist who had the same idea that we began to obtain more information on it and began. This new embryologist was highly skilled at ICSI (intra cytoplasmic sperm injection) which also better enabled us to perform minimal stimulation IVF cycles because it better guaranteed fertilization of the eggs. Most of our IVF cycles now are minimal stimulation IVF because of there low cost and high success rate.

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The Limitation of Minimal Stimulation IVF: Embryo Freezing

The downside of minimal stimulation IVF is that it is less suitable for the freezing of surplus embryos because generally only between 2-6 are retrieved. Once in a while, with minimal stimulation IVF there are some excess good quality embryos that are available to be cryopreserved and stored for future cycles. Many women, however, want a supply of frozen embryos for future use when they are ready to add additional children to their family, especially if they are one of the few who have low ovarian reserve.

For these women, traditional IVF is more likely the better approach. Unless you are young (mid to early 20’s) and healthy, many of the left over eggs retrieved from a traditional IVF cycle are much lower quality and/or don’t have the potential to become a fully developed fetus. There is also a higher cycle cancellation rate due to “too few eggs” and there is a reduced chance of producing extra embryos for freezing and use in a future cycle.

It sounds too good to be true: IVF without painful injections, debilitating side effects, multiple births or the dilemma of how to deal with leftover embryos. It is true, minimal stimulation IVF offers all these benefits, and East Bay Fertility is the most experienced fertility center in Utah with this type of IVF cycle.

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Success Stories from Our Clients

“When we want something, we do our research to find the best of that thing we want. Infertility specialists are no exception. My husband and I had been trying for 10 years, 8 years before my OB

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“My husband and I traveled from Arizona to see Dr. Andrew. There isn’t enough good to say about him and his staff. I felt like he really cared about me and I wasn’t just another patient to shuffle

Deb

“Dr. Andrew is a truly inspired doctor. After 6 doctors telling us that nothing was wrong with us, to keep trying, and to relax, we discovered Dr. Andrew. We live in Southern California and couldn’t

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Natalie S.

“Dr Andrew is very caring and compassionate. He and his staff have been wonderful over the last several years I have been a patient. From day one I knew Dr. Andrew was someone that had

Tina D.

“There was a time when we wondered if we would be able to have children of our own. We visited other doctors seeking help for infertility and left feeling discouraged and unsure about what

Janice R.

“The first time I left Dr Andrews office I left in tears because I felt we had finally found someone who was determined enough to help us achieve our dreams of having children. Unlike others he

Susan C.

“We had a wonderful experience with Dr. Andrew. We tried for 2 years and worked with 2 other doctors before finding Dr. Andrew. When other doctors said there was nothing else they could do, he

Dave C.

“We have three beautiful kids, thanks to the great medical help we received at Dr. Andrews office. We love the staff and the bed side manner of all the employees. We wouldn’t consider going

Janice N.

“Going to see Dr. Andrew was the best decision I’ve ever made! I am so glad I found him! Infertility can be hard and having a doctor that really cares makes all the difference. He is one of the

Lindsay

“My husband and I are so grateful for the Fertility services and Fertility treatments we received at East Bay Fertility and Wellness Center. Dr Andrew helped us get our 4 miracles (one set of twins

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“Ethan was born 6 months ago! Thank You, Thank You, Thank You Dr Andrew and Staff! Now we are going to Dr Andrew again. That will make it 3 or 4 kids (we’d like to have twins) through Dr

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Affordable Pricing

We feel that everyone should be able to afford services that will help give them the chance of pregnancy.

Our clear low-cost pricing is outlined below:

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Cycle Labs and Blood Draws
IVF Ultrasounds
Physician Monitoring & Counseling
Egg Retrieval with ultrasonic guidance
Oocyte identification from follicular fluid
Embryo Fertilization and Viability Review
ICSI – Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
Fresh Embryo transfer
If no Embryo’s transfer, call for frozen pricing
Cycle Guarantee – see below for details

$8955

Cycle Labs and Blood Draws
IVF Ultrasounds
Physician Monitoring & Counseling
Egg Retrieval with ultrasonic guidance
Oocyte identification from follicular fluid
ICSI – Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
Embryo Fertilization and Viability Review
Fresh Embryo transfer
If no Embryo’s transfer, call for frozen pricing
Cycle Guarantee – see below for details

$3150

IVF Ultrasounds
Physician Monitoring & Counseling
Cycle labs and Blood Draws
Embryo Thaw
Embryo Prep
Transfer
Out of State? We offer an option for lab work in your home state to save some of the travel time and expense.

Cycle Guarantee includes:

*The packages do not include anesthesia or medication*

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Offering Hope

At East Bay Fertility and Wellness Center we share a common goal with you of helping you achieve a successful and healthy pregnancy. Since 1997 we have helped hundreds of Utah & International couples realize this goal. We have helped bring hundreds of beautiful babies into the world through IVF.

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