The success of ICSI treatment depends on the quality of embryos. In medical procedure, embryo grading is used to evaluate and select the healthy embryos with the best quality before embryo transfer.   At Prime Fertility Clinic, our embryologists perform embryo grading. The fertility specialists assess embryos during 2 stages of embryo development which are Cleavage stage and Blastocyst stage as following details:   Cleavage stage The embryo assessment of Prime Fertility Clinic refers to an international criteria of Istanbul Consensus Scoring System. Considering cell morphology and symmetry, embryos are […]

The answer is “Yes”. Being too fat affects an ability to get pregnant. However, being too skinny can make it difficult for women to conceive as well.   An indicator to measure body fatness is BMI (Body Mass Index). Pregnancy opportunities of women based on BMI value are following: A BMI between 14-18 is considered very thin. The chance that women will deliver a healthy newborn is only 34%. A BMI between 19-28 is healthy weight or slight overweight. The chance that women will deliver a healthy newborn is 50%.[…]

Down Syndrome, a genetic condition that pregnant women must know! Down syndrome is a genetic disorder caused from an extra full or partial copy of the 21st chromosome. This extra copy of chromosome causes mild to moderate intellectual disability, delayed speech, decreased muscle tone. The obvious physical features are including flattened face / head / nose, small eyes, upward slanting eyelids, short neck, short height (shorter than other people at the same age once becoming an adult). As well as various health problems. Therefore, people with down syndrome mostly have[…]