PHILOSOPHY AND EXPERIENCE SET US APART
New Hope Fertility brings together a team of world-class specialists committed to bringing you the best of tomorrow's IVF treatment today. We understand that the quality of your fertility care experience affects your pregnancy outcome and that a holistic approach -- taking into account your physical and emotional wellbeing -- creates an environment conducive to pregnancy. Our practice combines a commitment to gentle, low-drug methods of assisted fertility, with cutting edge fertility technology, and individualized care. In this way, we offer pregnancy success rates comparable to conventional IVF treatment, without the trauma and stress of heavy dose hormone therapy.
Like most fertility centers, New Hope Fertility provides the full range of IVF services, including fertility diagnosis, PGD genetic testing, IVF treatments, embryo banking, donor and surrogate services and egg freezing, as well as reproductive repair surgeries and treatments for both male and female infertility.
We welcome you into our warm Park Avenue brownstone facility to meet our compassionate, patient-friendly team and experience the comfort and efficiency our state-of-the-art procedure rooms and laboratory, which, together, provide you with the best patient care available.
At New Hope Fertility we offer you the following unique treatment options:
Our Mini-IVFTM Treatment: A Gentle, More Natural Approach to IVF
New Hope Fertility Center is recognized as a world leader in the field of infertility treatment and is the largest fertility center in the US providing Mini-IVFTM treatment. This technique combines the well-established procedure of minimal stimulation using fewer drugs. These are usual oral medications combined with, in some cases, very small quantities of injectable drugs. This gentle stimulation recruits the one or more eggs that the body has naturally planned to generate in a cycle and hence selects for the quality eggs in a cycle. The approach therefore is a close approximation to the physiological processes of the body, does not generate the level of stress that long routines of injection do and above all keeps the body safe and free from any side effects of the injectable hormones such as the immediate decreased endometrial receptivity to the later development of ovarian and endometrial cancer. Women prefer our more natural Mini-IVFTM and Natural Cycle IVF treatments because they are the easiest, safest and the most cost effective IVF treatments in the world.
The Mini-IVFTM treatment, also called Minimal Stimulation IVF, employs a different philosophy towards fertility care than conventional IVF. It's a more physiologically natural approach to IVF, closer to the way nature intended for a woman's body to create new life: without excessive injectable IVF drugs, and using the one or more quality eggs (viable for live birth) nature provides each month. Conventional IVF takes the opposite approach. It uses high-dose daily IVF drug injections to stimulate the ovaries into growing a plethora of eggs, with no regard to their quality or the fact that most are later discarded.
The end result is similar in both methods: In each cycle a woman matures three to five quality eggs (ones viable for a healthy baby), and can achieve up to a 50% pregnancy success rate.
But the side effects are quite different. With a Mini-IVFTM treatment a woman typically consumes one pill per day, versus one to two daily high-dose self-injections required for three to five weeks in conventional IVF. Daily injections are burdensome, painful, expensive, and often produce overwhelming emotional side effects. For this reason up to 40 percent of women who begin a course of conventional IVF treatment abandon the process before completion.
Further, conventional IVF drugs are 30 to 40 percent more expensive than those used in Mini-IVFTM and they carry with them a greater chance of multiple births (up to 40 percent) and up to a five percent chance of ovarian hyper-stimulation syndrome (OHSS), a potentially fatal condition that bloats the ovaries, causing extreme pain.
For these reasons, New Hope Fertility choses to specialize in gentler, more natural fertility care. We are the largest US fertility center offering the Mini-IVF & Natural Cycle IVF treatments.
Vitrification: On the Cutting Edge of Fertility Cryo-Technology
For embryo and egg Freezing, we use a flash freezing technique called vitrification, which has a better than 98 percent survival rate for eggs (oocytes) and embryos, compared to the commonly used slow-dunk freezing method, which typically has a 55 percent survival rate.
At New Hope Fertility, we prefer single embryo transfers to avoid the complications of multiples (twins, etc.). That means you may produce more embryos than you transfer each IVF cycle, and thanks to vitrification's more than 98% percent egg and embryo survival rate, you can count on your extra preserved embryos for future use. Further, whether you are a single woman preserving your fertility, a couple delaying or timing child bearing, or a woman undergoing cancer treatment, you will find vitrification an invaluable option for egg freezing and embryo banking.
When this technology was first introduced three years ago, New Hope Fertility was one of a few centers in the U.S. to extend it to all our patients, and we have since become a leader in this delicate technique.
One Good Egg Policy: No More Worries Over Cancelled IVF Cycles
After all the effort the painful, expensive drugs and treatment, 30 to 50 high-dose IVF drug injections, the excitement of a possible pregnancy, and another month of fertility aging? Typically your egg retrieval will be cancelled in a conventional IVF cycle if less than three to five dominant follicles (potential eggs) are produced. This occurs in ten to 15 percent of all conventional IVF cycles. Further, if you are over the age of 41 or have a high FSH (e.g. 15-20+), you may be familiar with the frustrations of limited access to fertility treatment.
To reduce the frustrations associated with convention fertility care, we are pleased to implement our One-Good-Egg Policy. At New Hope Fertility, we don't have strict criteria based on a woman's age or FSH levels, or the number of follicles (potential eggs) produced each cycle. Every woman is different. We will individualize each patient's treatment plan based on their overall evaluation and unique fertility history, rather than solely on age or FSH levels or her dominant follicle count.
We welcome everyone to New Hope Fertility. Remember, it is quality that matters, not quantity. And, it takes only one good egg for one healthy baby!
No FSH Restrictions
FSH is hormone produced by the Pituitary gland in the brain that stimulates the Ovary to produce Oocytes ie "eggs". When the Ovary has difficulty producing mature eggs, the Brain releases more FSH in order to further stimulate the Ovary. This can be a temporary situation such as period of physical illness or emotional stress when body is "trying not to become pregnant" or, more ominously, a permanent situation due to diminished egg reserve that results from conditions such as increasing age or ovarian trauma. Most REIs are aware that the conventional hyper stimulation protocol does not work well in patients with elevated FSH. These patients often do not produce enough eggs to allow Conventional IVF to work efficiently which results in a significant increase in failed and cancelled cycles. Because of this difficulty, many IVF centers have FSH and Age restrictions.
At New Hope Fertility Center there are no FSH or Age restrictions. Through techniques such as Mini-IVF and NIVF, we focus more on Quality as oppose to Quantity, trying to optimize the potential for each individual egg. Time and time again, women who have been told by other centers that it was impossible for them to conceive, women with baseline FSH in the 20's and 30's, women over the age of 45, have conceived and given birth with assistance of our technology. Although the probability decreases as FSH and Age increase and not all women will achieve their goal, as long as a woman is still ovulating, the possibility still exists.
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