As seen in this morning’s Wall Street Journal article titled “New Strategy May Help Success of In Vitro Fertilization,” recent studies within the fertility care field are linking frozen embryo transfers with an increase in healthy pregnancies following IVF treatment.

The “3 separate randomized and controlled studies involving 633 women with an average age of 35″ fairly represent the group of couples we’ve helped get pregnant with frozen embryo transfers: New Hope’s latest SART statistics show 44% of our patients age 35 and under achieved a healthy pregnancy following frozen embryo transfers, and 64% of our patients got pregnant using frozen donor embryos.

Frozen embryo transfers (FET) have indeed produced high rates of success at our clinic, and we continue to encourage the practice when counseling our patients.  Not only do FETs increase chances of healthy pregnancy and live births, but the process with which we freeze them also contributes to the health of embryos.  Vitrification, a flash-freezing method we’ve utilized since our center opened in 2004, has a 98% thaw survival rate here at New Hope, giving our patients peace of mind with every frozen embryo transferred.

The practice of frozen embryo transfers also encourages the practice of single embryo transfers. Because frozen embryos increase the chance of pregnancy, FETs subsequently decrease the need to transfer more than 1 embryo at a time.  Single embryo transfers, along with our minimal stimulation protocols like Mini-IVF™ and Natural Cycle IVF, significantly decrease risks associated with multiple births.  At the hands of our experienced team of fertility specialists, we’ve been able to prove time and again that with these methods combined, IVF can be safe and more cost-effective for patients wishing to get pregnant without overstimulation.

Read more of our success stories involving frozen embryo transfers here.

At New Hope, we have the pleasure of helping many women get pregnant who have either failed multiple treatments elsewhere or even had unsuccessful attempts at our own clinic. For those undergoing fertility treatments, we understand giving patients false hope is not beneficial for either party as they begin their treatment — especially for those beginning their treatment again.  On the other hand, our team of fertility specialists pride themselves in being able to treat even the most difficult cases, which is where customizing our protocols comes into action.Through our individualized fertility care programs, we’ve been able to help women who have failed IVF before get pregnant, all while using minimally invasive techniques.

One such case involved a 36-year-old who arrived at New Hope after failing IVF multiple times at other centers in New York.  With the special approach of Dr. Chang, who has experience with “IVF non-responders,” he was able to discover Ms. 36 had an embryo rejection issue.  With this knowledge he made adjustments to her protocol, and despite her diagnosis, she got pregnant from a Natural IVF cycle transfer (no medications) from her embryo created through Mini-IVF™!

Another notable case involving a woman with a history of failed IVF was 43 when she arrived at New Hope.  Again, understanding her IVF history helped our fertility team adjust her protocols accordingly, and we’re happy to announce she got pregnant through an injection-less protocol and a fresh embryo transfer!

If you’re trying to conceive after experiencing multiple IVF failures, there’s still hope.  We have the team and protocols available to reach success even under the most “difficult” circumstances. Schedule a consultation today.

Family building is a priority for many veterans returning from their service overseas. Pelvic, spinal cord, and genitourinary injuries, however, can prevent injured war vets from being able to conceive.  Oftentimes these wounds cause damage that lead to ejaculatory problems, erectile dysfunction, and in women with shrapnel injuries, damage to the pelvis and fallopian tubes (source: Washington Post).

At New Hope, we fully support the bill up for proposal in the Senate right now, which will add fertility care services to the VA’s medical benefits package.  For men and women who have served and are trying their best to introduce a sense of normalcy back into their lives, it only makes sense that those injured continue to receive the support they need — mentally and physically — as they come home and rebuild their personal and family lives.

While the VA already covers some assisted reproduction services, like IUI (artificial insemination), the new proposal would add coverage for IVF, which yields a greater success rate compared to other treatments.  It would also include coverage to compensate for the partners’ side of IVF treatment, since the procedure involves both parties — sperm extraction, egg retrieval, embryo creation, and implantation.

We look forward to Veterans getting the care they deserve as they return home and work to build a family life.  At the end of the day, paying to achieve the dream of parenthood should be the least of an injured vet’s concerns as he or she comes back home.

Sometimes life doesn’t always go as planned.  When you were in your twenties, you may have found yourself talking with your girlfriends about how you’d all have kids in 10 years, and if you didn’t have kids yet, you’d at least be married.

If your family life didn’t go quite as planned and you find yourself wanting to get pregnant in your 40s, there is no reason to rid of your lifelong dreams.  Perhaps you excelled in your career or dated several men who didn’t meet your needs in the right way.  Whatever the reason, it’s okay to still want what you dreamed of when you pictured “Mr. Right” or envisioned yourself holding your baby for the first time.

At New Hope Fertility, we don’t discriminate based on age, and since our protocols are customized for each individual patient, we’ve been able to help many women in their 40s get pregnant.

We recently helped a few women in their 40s successfully conceive using donor eggs and our natural IVF techniques.  Our first patient arrived at New Hope dealing with secondary infertility at the age of 43. After electing to try our international Donor Egg IVF Program, she got pregnant — with twins — following her frozen embryo transfer.

Another woman came to NHFC, also at the age of 43, struggling with unexplained primary infertility. Due to a high FSH and her personal preference, Ms. 43 tried our Natural Cycle IVF protocol, and after a fresh embryo transfer using her own egg and no fertility medications, she got pregnant!

Our last IVF success story involves a 42-year-old, also struggling with primary infertility and hoping to try a less invasive approach to her fertility care.  Following her frozen embryo transfer retrieved from our Mini-IVF™ treatment, she recently announced she was pregnant.

Congratulations to our three recent IVF success stories from women in their 40s.  You are mommy models for us all!

Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis testing is a valuable tool for anyone wishing to avoid passing along genetic disorders to their unborn child.  At New Hope, we’ve been offering PGD testing since 2004, and have recently partnered with PGD experts, Reprogenetics, to provide our patients with the latest in PGD testing technology.  In addition to using PGD testing for family balancing, our latest PGD aCGH testing is officially the most comprehensive test that families can utilize in their efforts to detect significant genetic abnormalities.

In the past, our PGD tests could only check for a specific types of chromosomes to help us identify the healthiest fertilized eggs for use in IVF treatment or subsequent embryo freezing.  With the help of Reprogenetics, however, aCGH PGD testing now allows our embryologists to test all the chromosomes in a given selection of embryos, greatly increasing our ability to detect genetic abnormalities across a wider spectrum.  Our new aCGH testing not only decreases the chance of transferring an embryo that carries chromosomal deviants, but greatly increases our patients’ chance of achieving a healthy pregnancy and bringing it to term since we’re selecting, implanting, and freezing only the healthiest embryos.

We have a few recent IVF success stories involving women who used our PGD testing during their treatment at New Hope.  Our first patient, a 40-year-old, used our new aCGH biopsy to ensure we used the healthiest embryos during her cycle. Upon completing an aCGH biopsy and subsequent embryo transfer, she announced she was pregnant.  We’re thrilled to be able to provide her peace of mind through our latest PGD testing process, and can’t wait to continue a healthy journey with her during her pregnancy.

Our other two patients utilized our PGD testing for family balancing purposes.  The first, a 37-year-old, came to New Hope after struggling with secondary infertility.  While her first transfer failed transfer following her Mini-IVF™ cycles, she got pregnant with her first daughter following a second frozen embryo transfer.  Congrats to Ms. 37 on her pregnancy, and to her first child, who now has a baby sister to look after!

Our final IVF success story using PGD involves a 22-year-old, also suffering from secondary infertility.  After a couple of our trademarked Mini-IVF™ cycles, she was able to get pregnant with a boy following her first frozen (single) embryo transfer.  Congratulations to Ms. 22 on the upcoming birth of her first son!

If you or your partner are known carriers of genetic disorders and wish to avoid passing them along to your child, schedule a consultation with us or visit Reprogenetics online to learn more about PGD using aCGH.