IVF in Ahmedabad, Gujarat

IVF, in vitro fertilisation, is a sequence of steps: hormone injections to stimulate the ovaries, monitoring scans, collection of the eggs under sedation, fertilisation in the laboratory, a few days of embryo culture, and transfer of an embryo to the womb, with any suitable spare embryos frozen. The IVF explainer on this directory quotes the UK regulator's estimate that one cycle takes four to six weeks for most people. In India IVF is carried out at clinics registered at Level 2 on the national ART registry.

Ahmedabad comes with a caveat. The registry's level field is blank for every Ahmedabad listing in its extract. All 10 Ahmedabad listings on this directory that name IVF on their own website therefore show no level here, and this page does not infer one. Each listing does carry the registration the registry holds. Ask each clinic to show you its registration certificate, check the level printed on it, and confirm that IVF falls within what it is registered to do.

4 of the 10 also hold an ART bank registration, which allows a facility to store and supply eggs, sperm or embryos; that is worth knowing if you expect to freeze embryos or use donor gametes. This directory has no doctor recorded against these listings yet. Ask each clinic who would lead your treatment and who runs its embryology laboratory, and whether embryos would be stored on site or at a separate bank.

At a first visit expect tests for both partners. Ask for an itemised written estimate covering medicines, scans, egg collection, embryo freezing and storage, and a later frozen transfer, and ask whether ICSI is included. With no level recorded against any of the city's 74 registry listings, every Ahmedabad clinic offering IVF starts from the same footing on this directory, and the certificate is what separates them.