Questioning Your IVF Specialist

Questions to Ask After Repeated IVF Failures

After seven failed attempts at IVF, there comes a time when you have to ask some pretty hard questions to your Doctor.

I've been too frightened too ask - maybe I am not going to like what I might hear. But my visit with the Counsellor today did help in exploring what our options and questions we might ask our Doctor.

The questions are:
- Given our history and 7 failed attempts, what is the likelihood of us conceiving?
- Why do you think we lose so many embryos between day 3 and day 5?
- Do you think it has something to do with my egg quality or my husbands sperm?
- Should we try giving Day 3 embryos a go instead? (or Day 5 if relevant)
- Is there any kind of genetic testing that you think we should do?
- Are there any other tests that you think we should explore?
- Should my husband see an Andrologist?
- Should we have his sperm tested again?
- Are there any other alternatives that we should explore?

I am sure there are some that I have missed but these are the questions that seemed most relevant after repeated IVF failures.

Feel free to post any other questions you might have. We can all learn from other peoples questions.