What do you do to prepare for IVF treatment?

Before starting IVF treatment, you’ll need a thorough medical exam and fertility tests. Your partner will be examined and tested as well. Some of the preparation you’ll go through includes:

• IVF consultation (meet with healthcare providers to discuss the details of the IVF process).
• A uterine exam, up-to-date Pap test and mammogram (if over 40).
• A semen analysis.
• Screening for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and other infectious diseases.
• Ovarian reserve testing, and blood and urine tests.
• Instructions on how to administer fertility medications.
• Genetic carrier screening.
• Sign consent forms.
• Uterine cavity evaluation (hysteroscopy or saline-infused sonography (SIS)).

Your healthcare provider will have you start supplementing with folic acid at least three months before embryo transfer.