An embryo is not a baby

As an IVF  doctor , I treat women dream of becoming a mother. Many naively expect that once I have made the embryo in the IVF cycle and transferred this into her uterus, she will get pregnant. Lots of women called their embryos embies, because they start thinking of them as their babies. While it is true that embryos have the potential to become babies, there is a huge difference between a baby and an embryo which is simply a fertilized egg. 

You see the debate all the time on the news when it comes to abortion ! People who are pro-life will treat the fertilized egg as being a baby , because they feel it is uniquely human. However, pro-lifes fail to realize that a cluster of cells is nothing more than a cluster of cells, and it needs to undergo many weeks of development before it even starts resembling baby. 

Most women are on a high after their embryo transfer. Many start treating themselves as being pregnant - after all, isn't there an embryo inside the uterus ? However, the sad truth is that most

embryos fail to implant inside the uterus, and IVF cycles fail all the time. I have seen women who have been so devastated by a negative pregnancy test that they break down and cry in my clinic, because in their minds  they have just lost a baby.  They feel that they have miscarried - and have failed to be able to provide their precious embryos with a safe and secure home.

Because patients do not understand the difference between embryos and babies, Malpani Clinic has been the subject of complaints and negative reviews . Patients feel cheated when their IVF cycle fails, and are happy to badmouth their IVF doctor by writing unfair reviews.

If you are not sure why your embryos did not become babies, please send me your medical details by filling in the form at www.drmalpani.com/malpaniform.htm so that I can guide you better !