Taking the decision to have a baby isn’t something to be taken lightly for couples who can conceive naturally, but what if you needed to have medical intervention in order to get pregnant? It can be extremely costly and there isn’t a guarantee of success, so what would it take for you to decide to go down the IVF route? What if it didn’t cost you a penny but the odds were still the same?

To participate in one of the available clinical services trials available for IVF recipients is becoming a more popular for mums and dads-to-be. This option enables the participants to develop a deeper understanding of the IVF techniques involved, which may help to increase the success of the process further down the line.

E-Freeze or Endometrial Scratch

Clinical trial services are available in the UK, including E-Freeze, which uses frozen then thawed-out embryos as an alternative to fresh ones, which investigates whether the delay in embryo transfer through freezing the eggs first will result in hormones wearing off before implantation into the womb. As the argument against frozen or fresh embryos can’t yet be determined in the first cycle of treatment, the trial uses both methods in order to ultimately determine which is best.

Selected at random before the trial starts, half of the couples participating will be given the embryo transfer straight away whereas the other half will have embryos frozen and replaced at a later date, to see if the outcome is improved. As it is important that all participants are aware of everything that is going to happen, there is a plethora of information available to them, including a video and there is plenty of information online services http://www.gandlscientific.com/clinical-trial-services.

Helping fertility along the way

There are restrictions on this particular trial. For example, you need to be resident in the UK, under 42 years old and not using donor sperm / eggs or having pre-implementation genetic diagnosis. Endometrial scratch is also available, which involves the womb lining being scratched a month before the IVF treatment begins. This trial is for women who haven’t had IVF previously and again, participants will be selected at random. Taking part in trials such as this one enables research to be done to improve opportunities of conception.