Vitanova Rungsted

Vitanova Rungsted

At Vitanova, part of CREATE Fertility, we advocate Mild and Natural IVF because they focus on the quality of eggs/embryos, not the quantity. There is considerable scientific evidence to show that embryos created from IVF cycles with lower doses of stimulating drugs are of higher quality than those produced in conventional IVF.

In the peer reviewed study by Baart et al. embryos from Conventional and Mild IVF cycles were compared. On first glance, in terms of number of embryos, it appears that Conventional IVF provides a better chance of success. However, when the embryos are examined in more detail for chromosomal problems (aneuploidy), a significantly higher percentage of embryos in conventional, high stimulation IVF cycles were found to be chromosomally abnormal. This resulted in a comparable number of embryos to the Mild IVF cycle.

This therefore means that all of the additional drugs, stress and costs were ultimately unnecessary; the same result could be achieved with Mild IVF.