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Reducing costs

Egg sharing is a scheme operated by some clinics where, if you choose to donate some of the eggs collected from you following an IVF cycle to another woman who is unable to produce eggs, the price of your treatment can be reduced. Check if your clinic operates a scheme such as this as it is usually specified on the patient information for the clinic.

In addition, not all eggs are fertilized successfully with a process like IVF and so treatment is also expressed as the number of live births for every embryo transferred back into the womb. Whether the embryo is fresh or frozen can also make a difference to the success rates with slightly lower success rates when the embryo has been frozen and stored.