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All You Need to Know About IVF Treatment

When it comes to understanding IVF, it’s easy to get confused. After all, few parts of the world of pregnancy are so new, or as rapidly changing, like that of In Vitro Fertility Treatment – and reading some of our Dunya IVF Cyprus reviews can help you understand how other families have navigated this evolving field. If you are someone who wants to consider undergoing this kind of treatment, then it pays to invest more time into learning about it as a process.

When you learn more about this vital process, it will soon become much easier to take it on as part of your life. In this article, we’ll cover as much information as we can about this unique form of pregnancy.

Let’s take a closer look at In-Vitro pregnancy overall.

Your IVF Journey

Getting to Grips with your In-Vitro Pregnancy Decision

While IVF has undergone many changes since it first arrived in 1978, it’s developed to the point where today In-Vitro pregnancies are incredibly sophisticated.

With the process becoming ever-more refined as time has gone on, Fertility Treatment is now much easier to go through.

The first and most important feeling you can have, though, is that you are ready to move forward.

There are many reasons to consider undergoing this fertility treatment.

We’ll look at some of those reasons as this guide presses on. For now, though, it’s important to make sure that you feel confident in undergoing this kind of treatment: this article will try to provide you with the knowledge you need to feel that confidence.

Just like having a child in any other circumstance, there has to be total certainty that you are ready for having a child. The process may be different, but the end result is the same: a baby to call your own.

Undergoing Fertility Treatment

Should you choose to undergo fertility treatment, it pays to know what the process actually entails. As you might already have found out, for some people standard intercourse is not enough to bring about pregnancy or conception. Either male or female can be the cause – or both.

Low sperm quality or low sperm counts can often be the cause of infertility. By using microinjection, IVF therapy looks to make sure that, rather than the 15-million sperm cells used to try and make just one sperm cell succeed, just one single sperm is needed.

The earliest development in this industry came in the early 1950s when John Rock made the ‘error’ of extracting an intact, fertilised egg. By the late 1950s, Worcester Foundation scientific expert Min Cheuh Chang proved that in vitro fertilization was a possibility, by using the system to give birth to a baby rabbit.

What is IVF treatment

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What is IVF exactly?

It’s a unique form of fertilisation. In this process, you use a formulated, manual combination of an egg and sperm into a laboratory dish.

ICSI (Intracytoplasmic sperm injection) is a newer method where the eggs are fertilised by injecting a sperm into the egg with the use of a micromanipulator using a process called microinjection. Our clinic currently uses ICSI as standard in all treatments.

From there, it is taken and then transferred to the uterus. The embryo is then grown in many ways like a typical baby, allowing the pregnancy process to carry on like any other child.

Even if the steps of the treatment can be a little bit confusing, you will find that you need to undergo the following processes:

Hormone Stimulation:

To begin, medication is provided to help stimulate the production of new eggs. When possible, multiple eggs are desired to help maximise the chances of development afterwards. After this has taken place, a transvaginal ultrasound will take place. This is used to help look closer at the ovaries, as well as any collected blood test samples. At this stage, it’s likely that the process can continue forward.

Collecting Eggs:

The next phase of the process, collecting the egg, is carried out first by removal of the eggs. To do this, anaesthetics are usually used to help reduce any discomfort. During the operation, the expert on-hand will use ultrasound images as a guide. On the same day, the male is asked to produce a sample of sperm, which is prepared for combination with the eggs.

Fertilisation:

After the above process has been carried out, the mother candidate’s eggs will be fertilised with father candidate’s sperm. Afterwards, this is cultured in the laboratory for 16–20 hours, after which checks for signs of fertilisation will take place.

Embryo Transfer:

At this stage, some quality embryos will be transferred to the mother candidates’ uterus (or, in cases of surrogacy, to the surrogate’s uterus). The embryos will at this point be transferred to the uterus. This process can take three or five days. After this, a catheter or small tube is inserted into the uterus to transfer the embryos.

What does IVF mean, though?

As described by the National Health Service (NHS), IVF is “one of several techniques available to help people with fertility problems to have a baby.”

It’s a significant step forward in the process, and plays a significant role in helping you better understand that having a child is possible.

Now that we know a little bit more about the general process, it might be useful to look at how this treatment operates.

Alongside understanding how IVF works, it’s also important to explore its Success Rates. With our calculator, you can check the success rates of different fertility treatments – and specifically IVF – to get a clearer idea of what to expect.

The more that you can learn about the treatment now, the less stressful the whole experience shall feel as time goes on and you learn more about the treatment as a whole.

While it can feel daunting at first, there is no reason to feel like you cannot make the most of the treatment. If you follow this guide, you’ll fully understand it before you get involved with the next part of the process.

IVF Treatment FAQs

Do you offer assisted hatching?

Yes, assisted hatching and embryo glue is offered but these procedures are not included in the standard treatment package. We can go over the exact cost with you during a free consultation

How many days do I need to stay in Cyprus for this treatment?

If the patient is medically well prepared in advance, 5-8 days will suffice.

What’s the difference between IVF and ICSI?

In IVF sperm is placed near the egg allowing the sperm to naturally fertilize the egg. On the other hand, in ICSI, sperm is injected inside the egg with the help of a micro-manipulator.

These Couples Became Families

At Dunya IVF, we understand the heartache of feeling like all hope is lost. But for these couples, discovering us changed everything. In these videos, you’ll hear their powerful stories of perseverance, renewed hope, and the joy of finally becoming parents. These are the families who once walked in your shoes and now want to share their journeys to inspire yours.

Watch and see how Dunya IVF helped them turn their dreams into reality.

Very good clinic, super doctor took good care of me. Clinic is very nice and IVF was successful. Dunya Clinic is amazing I recommend!

– Tinka Cole

Cyprus Dunya IVF Clinic doesn’t throw words around… They have done everything they promised! You can trust them! There you can find a wonderful atmosphere, helpful and friendly staff.

Also there is a good service and attitude towards patients, and smart doctors. I recommend it, you won’t regret it! Of course in terms of achieving your goal (to have babies) an individual approach applies, as they are not God, but they will do their best and everything necessary to make happy all couples that dream to have babies!

They made us happy and, thank God, we are 3 months pregnant now…:)))) Thank you so much to all employees of Cyprus Dunya IVF Clinic!!!

– Arek Kharlamov

After 15 years of soooo many treatments in 4 countries (Switzerland, Austria, Turkey, Cyprus) I am first time in my life pregnant. I am so happy and thankful that I found Dünya IVF before I gave up forever.

– Chaput Tanja Jäggi

We had egg donation treatment in Cyprus and all went well so far! My eggs weren’t any good due to my age of 45 I think, so instead of any more IVF we decided along with the Drs to go for egg transfer.

We had 3 eggs implanted from a possible 8 good embryos and had the rest frozen. There were no hidden costs at all, just 5000 euros for the whole procedure and then 500 euros for freezing the embryos for a year with a choice of 250 euros a year from then onwards for as long as we like.

You get to know the age and nationality and basic things like hair colour, education,but nothing else. But to be honest it’s better not to know too much. That way the embryos feel like your own from the start. I didn’t know how I would feel about a donors eggs, but I am excited and protective now since they have been transferred!

They really do feel like they are mine anyway, plus they are fertilised by my husband anyway. The procedure was all straight forward and the Drs all very nice. They always had an interpreter with us. A very good experience all round.

The clinic was just great, much to our relief! Everyone was friendly and helpful and was all professional. We had an English interpreter with us at all times from the clinic who was a lovely girl and any questions were answered fully, no matter how silly you think they are to ask!

Communication via email, viber, phone was fantastic and answers received straight away. Couldn’t have hoped for more caring and friendly people in what could have been a very stressful time. Thank you Dunya clinic, would recommend this clinic to anybody.

Plus it is in the most beautiful part of Northern Cyprus to relax you further!

– Sarah Cozby

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27 Mar 2025