We combine this with a reduced approach to medication and significantly streamlined monitoring and patient management systems that we call effortless IVF. We can significantly lower the cost of delivering care by reducing both the need for expensive infrastructure as well as embryologist workload. The ability to grow embryos in the patient’s vaginal cavity rather than the large, complex expensive, intensive laboratory setting requiring 24/7 monitoring is tremendously advantageous. “This seemingly simple device is truly a disruptive technology. The company said it is the 1st intravaginal culture system with marketing clearance in the U.S. INVOcell is designed for incubating eggs and sperm during fertilization during early embryo development and operates within a woman’s body, unlike in vitro fertilization which takes place in a laboratory, the company said. Since Ashleigh's delivery, a second same-sex couple in North Texas went through the reciprocal effortless IVF process at CARE Fertility, got pregnant and delivered a healthy baby girl in September.INVO Bioscience said today it launched its InvoCell intravaginal culture infertility treatment system in the U.S., starting in Texas through the Center for Assisted Reproduction. "I think it opens up new avenues, new choices for same sex couples," Kathy said. The couple have two additional frozen embryos from Bliss that they could use the same way unless Ashleigh wants to use her eggs next time because only Bliss' genes transferred to Stetson. "No one really knew it was possible but it worked magnificently," Bliss said. Bliss and Ashleigh are busy with motherhood. Stetson is a happy, healthy 5-month-old baby. "It was everything I hoped it would be," Ashleigh said.
"I think that family, relationship, children is exactly everything that was meant to be in our world." "Well, I would respectfully disagree with them," Kathy said. Kathy responded to critics who may believe that this science is contrary to religious beliefs. Reciprocal effortless IVF, which is the process Bliss and Ashleigh underwent, is about $8,000 with medication, compared to traditional reciprocal IVF involving lab incubators that cost roughly $15,000 to $20,000. The cost of effortless IVF using INVOcell is approximately half the cost of traditional IVF, which usually runs between $14,000 and $16,000 with medication. She got to be a part of it, and I got to be a part of it." "So that made it really special for the both of us-that we were both involved. "She got to carry him for five days and was a big part of the fertilization, and then I carried him for nine months," Ashleigh said. "Almost like passing the baton, like it's a relay race," Kathy said.ĭoctors evaluated Ashleigh's uterus, gave her estrogen and then progesterone, waited for the right time and transferred her wife's embryos to her body. "We have livers, kidneys and lungs so we're able to provide those same services to the embryo more naturally." "It turns out, not surprisingly, that the woman's own body is a very good incubator," Kathy said, clarifying how INVOcell works.
"The eggs fertilized in her body and when they returned five days later, we removed the device and froze the embryos."īecause embryos don't have livers, kidneys or lungs, traditionally, electromechanical devices like incubators are used in labs to remove toxins and try to maintain a supportive environment for the embryo. "She got the embryo off to an early start," Kathy said. The device is placed into Bliss' body for five days where early embryo development begins. Instead of placing the sperm and Bliss' eggs into incubators in a lab, which is called reciprocal IVF and has been carried out for same-sex couples for years, they go into the chamber of the INVOcell device immediately after egg retrieval. "Bliss went through the stimulation of her ovaries and the egg harvest," Kathy said.
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