The journey
Choosing care
Ready to find a clinic and decide who to trust with your care.
Choosing a fertility clinic is one of the harder decisions in this journey, and it's often made under pressure and without good information. The single most useful starting point is legitimacy: whether a clinic is registered, and at what level.
This stage helps you separate the signal from the marketing — start from the registry-backed directory, understand what registration does and doesn't tell you, and walk in with the right questions. Trust is something you verify, not something a brochure asserts.
Good places to start
Start hereWhat an IVF cycle looks like, step by stepAn IVF cycle usually runs about four to six weeks of active treatment. You take hormone injections for around 8 to 14 days to grow several…Read moreDonor and surrogacy eligibility in IndiaIndia's fertility law sets strict, specific rules about who can use donor eggs or sperm and surrogacy, and who can be a donor or a…How to read fertility clinic reviewsFertility clinic reviews are harder to read than restaurant reviews, because the outcome colours everything. A failed cycle at a careful…IUI vs IVF vs ICSI: which treatment, and whenIUI is the simplest and cheapest option, placing prepared sperm in the uterus; it suits mild male-factor or unexplained infertility but has…Preparing for your first fertility consultationA first fertility consultation is mostly a detailed conversation about your history, often with an ultrasound, followed by a plan for…Questions to ask your fertility clinicBefore you commit to a clinic or a treatment, the right questions protect you. Ask about your diagnosis and whether IVF is really needed,…Red flags: how to spot a fertility clinic to avoidMost fertility clinics are run by committed professionals, but a few warning signs are worth heeding. Be cautious of misleading or vague…What actually decides whether IVF worksThe biggest factor in whether IVF works is your age, by a wide margin, more than diagnosis, more than clinic choice, more than most of what…When to see a fertility specialistAs a general guide, see a fertility specialist after about a year of trying if you are under 35, after about six months if you are 35 to…Your rights under India's ART ActIndia's Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021 gives you specific rights when you have IVF or other fertility treatment:…
Reference
Look up what's relevant to this stage by name.
Conditions
Treatments
Tests
Medications
Terms
- Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH)
- Antral follicle count (AFC)
- Azoospermia
- Endometriosis
- HSG (hysterosalpingogram)
- Hydrosalpinx
- ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection)
- IUI (intrauterine insemination)
- IVF (in vitro fertilisation)
- Myomectomy
- Ovarian reserve
- PGT-A (preimplantation genetic testing)
- TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone)
- Varicocele
Keep exploring
The clinic directory and the full library are good next steps.