Free IVF resource centre
IVF Guide: Everything You Need to Know About IVF
IVF is explained to most people twice: once too fast in a consultation room, and once at 1am by the internet. This is the version we wish we had. Every stage in order, plain English, no clinic sales language, free to read.
- 18 guides
- one question each
- 70 glossary terms
- plain definitions
- 4 free tools
- no account needed
- Written by patients
- not a clinic
Everything in the resource centre
Start anywhere. Each page answers one question in its first paragraph and then explains it properly.
Start here
What IVF is and how a cycle actually runs.
Inside a cycle
Each stage on its own page, in the order it happens.
- IVF medications
- IVF injections: what actually happens
- Egg retrieval: what to expect on the day
- Fertilisation: what happens in the lab
- Embryos and embryo grading explained
- Embryo transfer: what happens and what follows
- Implantation and the two week wait
- ICSI: what it is and when it is used
- PGT explained: PGT-A, PGT-M and PGT-SR
Odds and outcomes
How to read published figures without being sold to.
Clinics and people
Choosing where to be treated, and the parts nobody warns you about.
10 Things to Know Before Starting IVF
A short free read, sent straight to your inbox. The ten things we wish somebody had told us before the first appointment. No spam, unsubscribe whenever.
Written by patients, not clinicians. This page has not yet been reviewed by a named fertility professional, so it explains published guidance and points you to the original source instead of giving medical advice. It is not medical advice. Decisions about your treatment belong with your own clinic. Read our editorial policy and corrections policy.
Looking for the shorter question and answer pages instead? Read the IVF answers.