IVF means In-Vitro Fertilisation. IVF treatment is a technique where fertilisation takes place outside the body. During the IVF treatment process, your eggs and sperm or donor eggs or sperm are mixed together in the embryology laboratory.
Fertilised eggs are called embryos and these can develop for up to five days in our specialised incubators, until the best embryo is selected to be transferred back into the uterus to implant and grow just like in natural pregnancy.
IVF starts with pre-treatment tests to assess your fertility.
Your IVF consultant will take a full medical history and discuss the results of your tests so we can personalise your IVF cycle for your best chance of success.
The first stage of IVF is ovarian stimulation. This involves using tailored doses of fertility drugs to help you produce mature eggs.
A ‘trigger’ injection of fertility medications is administered to assist with the final maturation of eggs and loosening of the eggs from the follicle walls.
Around 35-38 hours after the ‘trigger’ injection, egg collection takes place in our clinic theatre under ultrasound guidance. On the morning of the egg collection, we provide you with a mild sedative. Egg collection is carried out using pain relief medications with the patient awake, allowing a speedy recovery and discharge.
The sperm sample is washed and prepared. It is then either added to the eggs or a single healthy sperm injected into the egg using Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI), approximately four hours after egg retrieval.
We monitor your eggs for signs of fertilisation. This usually occurs 16-18 hours after insemination.
The created embryos are placed in an incubator where they grow in the lab for the next two to five days. Our embryologists keep you updated on the progress of your embryos and advise when your embryo transfer will take place.
The embryo chosen by our embryologists is transferred under ultrasound guidance into your uterus by our fertility consultants, in our specially-designed embryo transfer room.
Any remaining good quality embryos that are not transferred are frozen and stored. Frozen embryos can be used in subsequent cycles if the first cycle is not successful or for sibling pregnancy.
You can take a home pregnancy test around two weeks after your embryo transfer. During this time, you will be supported by our clinic midwife. If your test is positive, you will be booked in for your early pregnancy scan about three weeks later.
IVF with Manchester Fertility starts at £4,150* for a single cycle.
As our specialist fertility consultants will tailor your treatment plan to your individual needs, your treatment may cost more than this. Rest assured, no matter your crcumstances, you will always be offered complete transparency on your treatment and all the advice you need to make informed decisions for your fertility journey.
You can find more details of our IVF treatment packages, including additional costs your treatment may incur, see below or on our latest price list.
Our IVF with Partner Sperm treatment package costs £4,150. There are a number of features that enhance this treatment package, including:
Additional costs in all IVF cycles:
Additional costs if applicable:
Our IVF Treatment using a Known Sperm Donor treatment package costs £4,150. There are a number of features that enhance this treatment package, including:
Additional costs in all IVF cycles:
Additional costs for using a known Sperm Donor:
Additional costs if applicable:
Our IVF with ICSI using Partner Sperm treatment package costs £5,400. There are a number of features that enhance this treatment package, including:
Additional costs in all ICSI cycles:
Additional costs if applicable:
Our IVF with ICSI using a Known Sperm Donor treatment package costs £5,400. There are a number of features that enhance this treatment package, including:
Additional costs in all ICSI cycles:
Additional costs for using a known Sperm Donor:
Additional costs if applicable:
Our IVF/ICSI using Donor Sperm treatment package costs £6,445. There are a number of features that enhance this treatment package, including:
Additional costs in all ICSI cycles:
Additional costs if applicable:
Our Reciprocal IVF treatment package costs £7,455. There are a number of features that enhance this treatment package, including:
Additional costs in all Reciprocal IVF cycles:
Additional costs if applicable:
You can choose to fund your IVF cycle yourself or through an IVF treatment package, which gives you fixed-cost peace of mind. Learn more about funding your IVF treatment with an access fertility pre-paid plan.
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"We will never forget what you have done for us."
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"Our family is complete and we will be forever grateful for the joy they have brought to our lives."
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IVF is used to treat a wide range of fertility problems, such as:
Manchester Fertility has over 35 years of IVF expertise and consistent patient success. Find out more about us here.
We specialise in individualised IVF treatment that is unique to you, focused on achieving a healthy pregnancy and baby. When you have IVF with us, you can look forward to:
Anamika completed her Obstetrics and Gynaecology training both in India and the UK, and has been a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists since 2005.
Peter joined the Manchester Fertility team in 2009. He undertakes consultations and performs all the related investigations and therapies, his special interests are in Obstetrics & Gynaecology.
Samantha has always had an interest in women’s health, after time spent as a Registered Nurse and then a midwife she undertook specialist assisted conception training and later qualified in ultrasound. She joined our team in 1997.
The results in the graph below are our HFEA verified IVF success rates for couples using their own eggs in 2019. The values are clinical pregnancy per embryo transferred.
There is no published data for patients over 42 as the number treated is low the data has been redacted by the HFEA to protect the identity of patients.
At Manchester Fertility we treat all types and ages of patients, including those with complex fertility issues where the chances of success are typically lower. Our results are consistent with HFEA national data thanks to our personalised, patient-focused approach to IVF.
To see more of our results data, which has been verified by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, please visit the HFEA website.
January - December 2019
There are lots of factors to consider when choosing an IVF clinic, such as location, cost, success rates and treatments. But things like compassionate staff, transparent pricing, administrative processes and emotional support matter just as much, according to the HFEA.
It is important to take the time to visit a few different clinics to ensure you find an IVF clinic where you are treated like an individual, listened to and made to feel comfortable, right from the start. We offer free 1-2-1s to help you make an informed decision about which clinic is best for you, where you can come and tour our clinic, meet our team and get to know more about us and our approach. You can book a 1-2-1 online or call us on 0161 300 2737.
A single cycle of IVF with Manchester Fertility costs from £3,950. We also offer a cost-effective IVF package which includes all the fees and costs involved in an IVF cycle together with Embryoscope time-lapse embryo selection, for one simple fixed price. You can also explore your funding options.
IVF is a generally safe fertility treatment which is used worldwide.
The main risks of IVF are:
Natural IVF does not use any fertility medication and relies solely on the egg you naturally ovulate that month. Because it has very low success rates, we do not offer Natural IVF.
Instead we offer Modified Natural Cycle IVF, which uses very low doses of medication to help you produce at least one egg. Modified Natural Cycle would only be advised in very specific circumstances where standard doses of IVF medications would not improve the numbers of eggs produced, such as in women with a low ovarian reserve or those who have responded poorly to IVF in the past.
It only takes a few days of embryo development for our expert Embryology team to identify which embryos have the best pregnancy potential. Your embryos are safely developed in the optimum conditions of our state-of-the-art IVF laboratory over two to five days.
Embryos are either developed through standard incubator culture or in our Embryoscope incubators, where our embryologists can see every crucial stage of undisturbed development using time-lapse video technology.
We look for specific cell division and growth to choose which embryos are best for transfer. If recommended by your Fertility Consultant we can perform genetic testing, known as Pre-implantation Genetic Screening (PGS), aneuploidy screening or PGT-A, to ensure that only embryos with correct chromosome numbers are selected for your IVF cycle.
Time off work is a very individual decision, based on how you are feeling. Many of our patients like to take some time off after egg retrieval and after embryo transfer for instance.
The best advice is to follow the guidance given by our team about rest periods, activity and your normal routine.
We've collected several useful links to learn more about IVF, which you can find below.
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