When your doctor is happy with the number and size of your egg follicles, you’ll take a final “trigger shot” to mature and release the eggs. A day and a half later, you’ll go into your clinic for an egg retrieval procedure. While you’re under anesthesia, a doctor will collect as many of the eggs as possible, and an embryologist will prepare them in a petri dish to fertilize with sperm.

Once the egg(s) and sperm fertilize into embryos, they will grow in the lab until they are mature enough to transfer to the uterus.

Before your doctor transfers any embryos, you’ll take medication to prepare your uterus for the implantation. This is usually additional progesterone to help grow the uterine lining.

You and your doctor will discuss which embryo to transfer — typically, they’ll recommend starting with the best quality one. If the embryo is already frozen, an embryologist will thaw and prepare it, and your doctor will transfer it to the uterus.

8–14 days after transfer, your doctor will order a blood test to find out if you’re pregnant.

If your transfer isn’t successful, you can thaw and transfer any additional embryos you have stored. You'll take more medication to prepare your uterus for the implantation. This is usually additional progesterone to help grow the uterine lining. You and your doctor will discuss which embryo to transfer — typically, they’ll recommend starting with the best quality one. Because the embryo is frozen, an embryologist will thaw and prepare it, and your doctor will transfer it to the uterus.

8–14 days after transfer, your doctor will order a blood test to find out if you’re pregnant.

On average, people do 2 transfers per cycle. We've added 2 transfers to the price here as a ballpark range, but you may need more or fewer transfers.