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This comprehensive visual guide from Cyprus IVF Clinic walks you through every stage of the IVF treatment process, from your initial fertility consultation to embryo transfer. Discover what happens during each of the five key phases—pre-treatment testing and hormone evaluation, ovarian stimulation with daily injections, ultrasound-guided egg collection, ICSI fertilisation with EmbryoScope monitoring, and the final painless embryo transfer procedure. Whether you're exploring IVF in Cyprus for the first time or preparing for your upcoming treatment cycle, this step-by-step timeline helps you understand exactly what to expect, how long each stage takes, and why each step is essential for achieving a successful pregnancy.
Understanding your unique fertility profile
Before beginning IVF treatment, you and your partner undergo comprehensive testing to identify any conditions that could affect success rates.
💡 Why it matters: These results help us design a personalised treatment protocol tailored specifically to your needs.
Growing multiple healthy follicles
Starting from day 1-3 of your menstrual cycle, hormone injections stimulate your ovaries to produce multiple follicles, each potentially containing an egg.
💡 Goal: Develop 3 or more mature follicles (18mm or larger) for optimal egg collection.
Harvesting mature eggs under gentle sedation
About 35-36 hours after the trigger injection (HCG), eggs are collected from the follicles using ultrasound-guided aspiration.
💡 Typical outcome: 8-15 eggs are usually collected, depending on your response to stimulation.
Creating and nurturing embryos in our laboratory
Using ICSI (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection), a single sperm is injected directly into each mature egg. Embryos are then monitored in our state-of-the-art incubators.
💡 Embryoscope advantage: Continuous monitoring without disturbing the embryo's environment, improving success rates.
Placing the embryo in your uterus for implantation
The selected embryo(s) are gently transferred into your uterus using a thin, flexible catheter guided by ultrasound. This is the final step of your IVF cycle.
💡 After transfer: Continue progesterone support as directed. Light activity is fine, but avoid strenuous exercise.
