Genea IVF (In vitro Fertilization)

When you need IVF (In-vitro Fertilisation) to help you have a child, we bring eggs and sperm together in a dish in our lab and develop the resulting embryos in our world leading incubation system for several days before we transfer one embryo into the woman’s uterus.

  1. Fertility Specialist Appointment: The doctor will review your medical history, investigations and treatments, then provide preliminary advice about your treatment options.
  2. Ovarian Simulation: You’ll likely start with a blood test to check that your body is ready to start. After that, you have two injections a day for another three or four days.
  3. Treatment monitoring: Take blood tests and ultrasounds to measure the number and size of your ovarian follicles.
  4. Trigger injection: You’ll have a trigger injection of hCG (human chorionic gonotrophic) and then we collect the eggs 36 hours later.
  5. Egg collection (OPU): You will need to come in for outpatient Day surgery to collect the eggs. The procedure takes about 10-20 minutes and will be performed using general anaesthetia.
  6. Fertilisation: Your eggs are taken straight to the laboratory by the Embryologist. There they are placed in a optimal culture medium ahead of fertilization with sperm approximately 3 hours later.
  7. Embryo development: The fertilized eggs (embryos) are placed in Genea’s exclusive Geri™ incubation system and monitored for several days. Our automated timelapse Geri™ incubation system has seen an increase of 46.7% in the number of high-grade embryos per cycle when compared to the traditional incubator**. Geri™ uses time lapse cameras to allow scientists to continuously monitor embryos while they remain undisturbed, eliminating the need to open the incubator to manually check on embryo development.
  8. Embryo transfer: usually takes place five days after the egg collection. Your Fertility Specialist will transfer one of your healthiest embryos into the uterus.
  9. Embryo freezing: If there are additional embryos, they can be frozen and stored for later use. We developed and use the world’s first automated vitrification instrument – Gavi™ – to freeze embryos.
  10. Pregnancy test: 11 days after embryo transfer your Nurse will organize for you to have a pregnancy test. 
**Fetal heart pregnancies. Study performed in Genea’s Canberra laboratory, 2015-2018.