The Egg Retrieval Process

The egg retrieval is a 15-minute surgical procedure. No cuts, no stitches.

The word “surgery” might seem scary, but the egg retrieval process is quick and essentially painless. Here’s what you can expect before, during, and after the procedure.

This means getting eggs from a female body. The procedure is usually under anesthesia but does not require boarding. No pain is felt by the medications taken during the procedure. The procedure is performed with the help of a transvaginal needle and ultrasound used by the IVF doctor and the ovaries are reached. During the follow-up of the egg development, on the day it is determined that a sufficient number of eggs have matured, the eggs are injected to complete the last stage of development. 

Egg collection is scheduled for 36 hours after this last drug injection.

During the collection of the eggs, sedatives, sleeping drugs can be given or the procedure can be performed under full anesthesia. 

The procedure is similar to vaginal ultrasonography performed during your egg developmental follow-up. The only difference is that a needle attached to the vaginal ultrasound device passes through the vagina and collects the eggs inside your ovaries.

The average duration of the procedure is 30 minutes. Fertilization with sperm cells is carried out on the day the eggs are collected. After 2-3 hours of rest after the collection of eggs , the couple is discharged from the hospital.   

After this stage of in vitro fertilization, double information is given about the drugs to be used.

You’ll know the results of the egg retrieval process right away.

Before you leave the office, the team will let you know how many eggs were retrieved and moved to our embryology lab. Then, within 24 hours of your egg retrieval process, they’ll call to let you know many of your eggs were ultimately frozen; typically, about 80% of eggs retrieved are deemed mature, normal, and suitable for freezing.

After the egg retrieval process, your eggs will be moved immediately to our lab, where they will be frozen (or cryopreserved) using a flash-freezing method called vitrification.