PFCLA’s International IVF Journey

This can be done via Zoom, Skype, or WeChat. We can provide translation services. Our medical coordination team speaks over 13 languages.

Your physician will order a panel of lab works that you can have performed locally to minimize travel to Los Angeles. These testing results will help to decide your medications regimen.

The average time for the egg retrieval stimulation cycle ranges from 10-14 days. You will be able to start medications locally and plan a stay in Los Angeles for 5-7 days in order to complete your ultrasounds and the egg retrieval procedure. You can fly home 24 hours after the egg retrieval procedure has been completed. If you are not using donor sperm, and we do not already have your partner’s sperm frozen on site, your partner will need to come to the clinic with you in order to deposit fresh semen samples on the egg retrieval date.

Our clinical coordinator will keep you updated on the embryo's culturing process. A day or two after the eggs have been retrieved, we will provide a fertilization report. The fertilized embryos will be cultured for 5-7 days, and then be biopsied and sent for PGT-A (preimplantation genetic testing, also known as PGS). It takes 1-2 weeks for the final embryos results to be provided.

You can start the medications locally; the embryo transfer procedure usually takes place between days 19 and 21 of the menstrual cycle. This is followed by a pregnancy blood test approximately 10 days post-implantation. You will need to plan a one or two day stay in Los Angeles for the transfer procedure; you may fly back home the day after the frozen embryo transfer procedure has been completed. An ultrasound before the frozen embryo transfer procedure and the pregnancy blood test can be done locally. You can also follow up with your own OBGYN for your 6-, 8-, and 10-week ultrasounds; our physician will review the reports, and you will be discharged from our center to your OB care after your 10-week ultrasound with your OB.