It's time for an ultrasound! 👩🔎‍⚕️ What does your monitoring ultrasound tell us and why are they important? 🤔 Patients ask us all the time why we need to perform so many ultrasounds and blood draws during a cycle. Morning monitoring through the cycle is an extremely important step to help our physicians best determine when an egg retrieval should happen as well as manage hormone levels in the patient and minimize the risk of OHSS. Thus requiring frequent blood draws and ultrasounds are necess

Should PCOS patients use birth control before an IVF cycle? 💊 Birth control is used at the beginning of a cycle for most patients (including those with PCOS) to help balance hormone levels to a baseline. This provides an even field for stimulation medication to work with and aids in adequately producing follicles! 💉 🥚 | New Hope Fertility Center