If you’ve experienced recurrent pregnancy loss with normal conception, you may be a candidate for IVF. You might wonder how your body could carry a pregnancy through an IVF conception when you’ve had so much trouble after natural conception. There are a number of factors that can be the cause for miscarriage, but one frequent cause is chromosomal abnormalities in the embryo. When going through the IVF process, you can opt for something called Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD). What happens with PGD is a single cell is removed from each of the embryos collected for your IVF treatment. Those cells are then analyzed for genetic abnormalities that would likely result in miscarriage. The embryo(s) that will be implanted are chosen based on this analysis.
This is obviously a simplified description of the PGD process, but you can read more about it here and if you would like to learn more, please contact us!
