When my husband and I got married, we had great hopes for children in our future. After several years of marriage and stability in our work, we decided to start trying for a baby. I had a history of endometriosis but was never led to believe by any physician that I would have trouble conceiving. After two years of trying and even a few months with Clomid, we went to a fertility specialist. Thus began eighteen months of tests and heartbreak. We went through one IUI, which failed. I had blood tests which showed I had premature ovarian failure. We had to postpone IVF for two months because of a cyst on my ovary. The IVF process was filled with so much hope and prayer that its failure was unbearable. My physician then told me that he thought donor egg IVF would be my only option. For any couple who has longed for a child the way we did, it was the most heartbreaking news we could have gotten.

We knew that we wanted children how we got them did not matter so much. The odds were very low that I would find a donor from my own race (Indian) in the United States. Besides, we could not take that much time off of work and we didn’t have the financial means to go through a search for someone in the U.S. I started browsing the Internet looking for Indian egg donors and found Dr. Malpani’s website. Honestly, I did not expect an answer when I wrote him my story via e-mail. To my astonishment, he wrote back immediately! Thus began a correspondence that eventually led us to Mumbai three months after my failed IVF. I am a person who tends to see the obstacles in everything and I was not sure about going half way around the world to try donor egg IVF. My husband and I were both scared. My physicians here could not believe that Dr. Malpani could make the process so quick and simple. They were very doubtful that things would be successful.

All that I can say is that things went smoothly. There was no red tape or forms to sign relinquishing liability or tests to go through. Things were coordinated carefully even before we got there. We implanted four beautiful embryos. I did not let myself even hope that this could work because I knew I would not be able to handle the letdown. About two weeks after returning to the United States, I had severe abdominal pain and went to my local hospital. That night, I found out I was pregnant! My pregnancy was not easy. I had placenta previa, gestational diabetes, and pre-eclampsia, ending with delivery at 33  weeks. But our daughter, besides being small, was healthy and perfect. She is the joy of our lives. She has a smile for us whenever she sees us. She is the most beautiful thing we have ever seen. We would never have known this kind of happiness without Dr. Malpani. We dared to take a leap of faith on a doctor we had not even met. I cannot begin to express how grateful we are for Dr. Malpani and his staff. Everyone was so kind and patient through my myriad of phone calls and e-mails.

The lesson that we learned through this five-year experience is to never give up hope. God grants you ways of finding what you are looking for  they just may not be the conventional ways. I want to give a special thanks to the egg donors at the Malpani clinic. Without them, our dreams would never have been realized. It takes special people to give of themselves in this way and special physicians and staff to make things work. We will never to able to thank the Malpani clinic enough for everything they have done for us.

You can email me at top_med@yahoo.com

It gives us great pleasure to share our experiences atthe Malpani Infertility Clinic in India. We also takethis opportunity to convey our sincere regards and thanks to the entire Dr. Malpani’s team.

My husband and I got married when we were in the middle of our career. We were both career oriented and our educated families never gave us any “real pressure” to have children in our early years of marriage. We took all the possible opportunities to travel to different parts of the world to get better placement in our career. But we knew time is running out to plan for a family. When we decided to get pregnant, it was not too difficult and I conceived in summer of 2001 after six years of our married life. We were quite excited as it all happened at the right ageand were hopeful for risk-free pregnancy.Unfortunately I had a spontaneous miscarriage at 6wk of pregnancy. My doctor consoled me that such spontaneous abortion is a nature’s way to eliminate damaged or abnormal embryos.

Our worries began after a year or so of the miscarriage, when we were unable to get pregnant again. Age of 32 years was still not an issue according to the US doctors and they wanted to give us more time to conceive natural ways. We tried one more year using ovulation kit and predicting most fertileperiod and failed. The frustration was building up and then came series of tests: Hysterosalpingogram (tocheck Fallopian tube’s patency), Laparoscopy (to checkthe endometrial fibroids and ovarian cysts), completehormonal account (LH, FSH, estradiol, TSH etc) and ofcourse my husbands complete sperm analysis. All the tests were normal and we were put in the category of “Unexplained Infertility”. Although we felt veryfortunate that everything was normal to have a baby but at the same time it was unclear to us that how much the assisted reproductive technology (ART) can really help us in achieving fertility without a specific problem in the system. Anyway, we didn’t have much choice so it started with simple IUI(intrauterine sperm insemination) to taking fertilitydrugs (clomid tablets to FSH injections) to improve my ovulation status and every cycle, every month ended in a big disappointment. Then the doctors suggested that IVF may be my last chance which I was never convinced as generally IVF is suggested when tubes are blocked and one needs to rescue the fertilization event in apetri-plate. I finally decided to go for it. Againthere was an unwanted surprise. My day 3rd FSH levelwas high and according to a recent study that isindicative of poor ovarian response. However, doctors asked us to wait till a cycle when FSH is normal andmay be then I will have better chance in IVF. So wedid wait for another cycle when my FSH was normal andunderwent IVF. Unfortunately my poor ovarian responseproduced few immature eggs and those were alsounevenly fertilized.

At that point I had given up of having a baby. Mystrong religious and ethical believes were playing amajor role in my decision as I am a strong believerthat one can always assist reproduction with newtechnology but can not play GOD or ALMIGHTY NATURE. Inour final follow up meeting with the doctor suggestedme for another IVF with ICSI (and deep inside me, Iknew these are all false hopes-if egg quality is notgood, performing ICSI-intra-cytoplasmic sperminjection is not the choice!) or go for a donor eggs and IVF with my husband’s sperm. Then there came arescuer in our family who willing accepted to be myegg-donor.

When most of the difficult choices were already made,choosing a doctor in India was not at all a difficult task for us, because if you type infertility andIndia, first 10 most important sites come up in”Google” is Dr. Malpani’s site or his discussion inthe news. It was also easy to get in touch with him via email. He gave us a very prompt reply when we filled the free-second opinion form on the net. Since then I am amazed by Dr. Aniruddha Maplani’s networking. All the treatment plan, synchronization ofmine and donor’s cycle, getting convenient dates tovisit India, everything was kind of a click away. Dr.Aniruddha is so particular in replying the mails that any medical emergency one might have during thepre-treatment plan, one can reassure that it will be taken care of by his timely advice given from thousands of miles away. At times we were skeptical as we have never met the Doctor and his team and even never visited the clinic before. For such dilemma again Dr. Malpani’s web site has solutions and has aseries of email buddies whom if you contact you are sure to get an elaborate answer.

Finally we met Dr. Aniruddha Malpani in 2004 and I must say I was impressed by his professionalism. He discussed all our doubts and gave his verystraightforward opinion. Dr. Aniruddha is lesstalkative but he takes his job very seriously. Ivalued his opinion as at all steps he clearlydiscussed the limitations of the treatment and nevergave us false hopes. Dr. Anjali on the other hand veryfriendly and always making the tough moments lightenough to smile. The clinic is impressively clean and very homely. The staff is very cooperative andfriendly. We started our treatment plan, everythingwas working out as per the plan, the donor had amplenumber of eggs, sperm quality of my husband was goodenough and then came another unwanted surprise-none ofthe eggs were fertilized. I could not explain howdisappointed we were when we got this news. Dr.Aniruddha explained in detail that “emergency ICSI ” can be still performed on a day old eggs where thechances of having successful pregnancy will drop frominitial 50% to 5-15%. I had my reservations with ICSI that there are more chances of getting geneticabnormalities with such a procedure and I was notready to go for it. We discussed again with Dr.Malpani and he cleared all my fears and doubts andstrongly suggested that ICSI is perfectly ethical andrisk-free treatment. He also emphasized that withemergency ICSI performed chances are only 15% butdefinitely better than 0%. We believed in him and said yes and then the miracle happen. Today we have hope, I am 8 weeks pregnant and it takes your breath away to listen to your baby’s first heartbeat.

Today, I am very grateful to Dr. Malpani and his entire clinic and wish them all the very best in theirnoble work. My special thanks and gratitude to all the nurses and staff, especially Miss Muttu, Sonia, Bindu and others.

When my husband and I got married, we had great hopes for children in our future. After several years of marriage and stability in our work, we decided to start trying for a baby. I had a history of endometriosis but was never led to believe by any physician that I would have trouble conceiving. After two years of trying and even a few months with Clomid, we went to a fertility specialist. Thus began eighteen months of tests and heartbreak. We went through one IUI, which failed. I had blood tests which showed I had premature ovarian failure. We had to postpone IVF for two months because of a cyst on my ovary. The IVF process was filled with so much hope and prayer that its failure was unbearable. My physician then told me that he thought donor egg IVF would be my only option. For any couple who has longed for a child the way we did, it was the most heartbreaking news we could have gotten.

We knew that we wanted children how we got them did not matter so much. The odds were very low that I would find a donor from my own race (Indian) in the United States. Besides, we could not take that much time off of work and we didn’t have the financial means to go through a search for someone in the U.S. I started browsing the Internet looking for Indian egg donors and found Dr. Malpani’s website. Honestly, I did not expect an answer when I wrote him my story via e-mail. To my astonishment, he wrote back immediately! Thus began a correspondence that eventually led us to Mumbai three months after my failed IVF. I am a person who tends to see the obstacles in everything and I was not sure about going half way around the world to try donor egg IVF. My husband and I were both scared. My physicians here could not believe that Dr. Malpani could make the process so quick and simple. They were very doubtful that things would be successful.

All that I can say is that things went smoothly. There was no red tape or forms to sign relinquishing liability or tests to go through. Things were coordinated carefully even before we got there. We implanted four beautiful embryos. I did not let myself even hope that this could work because I knew I would not be able to handle the letdown. About two weeks after returning to the United States, I had severe abdominal pain and went to my local hospital.

That night, I found out I was pregnant! My pregnancy was not easy. I had placenta previa, gestational diabetes, and pre-eclampsia, ending with delivery at 33 weeks. But our daughter, besides being small, was healthy and perfect. She is the joy of our lives. She has a smile for us whenever she sees us. She is the most beautiful thing we have ever seen. We would never have known this kind of happiness without Dr. Malpani. We dared to take a leap of faith on a doctor we had not even met. I cannot begin to express how grateful we are for Dr. Malpani and his staff. Everyone was so kind and patient through my myriad of phone calls and e-mails.

The lesson that we learned through this five-year experience is to never give up hope. God grants you ways of finding what you are looking for – they just may not be the conventional ways. I want to give a special thanks to the egg donors at the Malpani clinic. Without them, our dreams would never have been realized. It takes special people to give of themselves in this way and special physicians and staff to make things work. We will never to able to thank the Malpani clinic enough for everything they have done for us.

You can email me at top_med@yahoo.com if you\’d like to talk to me about our journey in having a child.

We have been married for seven years and started trying for a baby 6 years ago. We had all the usual tests carried out and I was found to have endometriosis which may be affecting my fertility. Despite this we had our first attempt at IVF which was unsuccessful. I then decided to have my endometriosis treated and to try naturally for 6 months to see if this worked. Unfortunately nothing – we carried on to have a further 5 attempts at IVF/ICSI – none of which were successful – one time we tried the short protocol and the cycle had to be abandoned as there was nothing to transfer.

As you can imagine we were beginning to consider other options as the quality of my eggs seemed to deteriorate with each cycle. We did some research on the net and as I am of Indian origin, we decided to look into egg donation in India.

We had heard of Dr Malpani on the radio in the UK and as he was internationally reknowned, we felt reassured about his professionalism.

From the very beginning, Dr Malpani was nothing but professional and courteous – providing answers to all our questions about what treatment would involve before we had committed.

Despite being half way across the world – he responded very efficiently to all emails – before and after we decided to go ahead with an egg donation cycle with him.

The other nice thing was that he was so flexible in combining some tests done in the UK.

We had our cycle in September 2007 and two weeks later got a positive test result – which was absolutely amazing!!..we were in a daze as this had never happened before!

Now we have two beautiful daughters to cherish!!!

We can’t thank Dr Malpani and his team enough for professional service they provided – we feel truly blessed.

Mr and Mrs G from Englandluca08.gb@googlemail.com

We first came across the Malpani clinic in a daily newspaper article whilst we were about to start my second IVF cycle. My first cycle was a resounding failure due to my poor response and was cancelled half way through. This was the first indication of low egg reserves. I was originally referred for IVF treatment because of a blocked fallopian tube. 

I first looked at the Malpani’s website and found it to be extremely informative and useful. All the information is clear and goes into great detail about the crazy world of fertility but in a language that is easy to understand as a non medical person. 

Having understood and learnt a few things about infertility and my condition from the website I e-mailed Dr Malpani for a second opinion whilst I was going through the second cycle. Dr Malpani’s response was immediate and we corresponded throughout this cycle. The cycle itself was below average, my oestrogen levels weren’t great (another indication of my low egg reserves) and they only collected three eggs. None of these fertilised and the cycle ended. 

I was devastated not only because the cycle hadn’t worked but because we were told by the clinic that the only hope we had of getting pregnant was through egg donation something in the UK that can take forever unless you know someone who is willing to donate their eggs to you. I felt that because we didn’t fit comfortably into the clinics success rate we were being told to go elsewhere. I felt sure there was more that could be done. 

With the information I had given Dr Malpani he suggested ICSI as an option. By this time we had arranged to go and see Dr Malpani in two months’ time for egg donation treatment. But that seemed like an age away and when you are trying to get pregnant doing nothing is hell on earth. So we decided to try one more cycle with ICSI, we would take it day by day and if the blood tests didn\’t come back with good results we wouldn’t go any further. As it turned out it was the best cycle I had and much more in-keeping with the results of a normal cycle (if there is such a thing). They collected five eggs but only one was mature enough for ICSI it fertilised but did not implant. 

I tell you this because at this point we were in a dilemma. We knew we could get this far and we also knew that there was much more pre and post embryo transfer that could be done to help the embryo implant so do we visit Dr Malpani for our own IVF cycle or continue with the egg donation route! Dr Malapni again provided excellent help and support while we considered our options. In the end we decided our best chance of getting pregnant was to continue with the egg donation route. 

My period was over a week late (I knew I wasn’t pregnant) while I was in India waiting for my treatment to start which caused me to worry and become quite stressed. Dr Malpani however took the time and effort to see me and talk me through what was happening and how we could go ahead and start the treatment anyway. Throughout my treatment at the clinic I always felt everything that could be done was being done in order to help me get pregnant, something I had never felt in the UK and something that is so important when you are trying for a baby. Everyone was helpful and friendly especially Dr.Aniruddha Malpani and Dr AnjaliI Malpani and I couldn\’t have been happier with the treatment and service. My treatment was a success and as I write this I am eight weeks pregnant and praying to God every day for his help and support. Dr Malpani did everything in his power to help me get pregnant and for this I am truly thankful. Even when I arrived home and to this day Dr Malpani always responds to my e-mails with advice on how to check things out. They themselves are there for you well before you start your treatment, during your treatment and well after your treatment has finished, something again that cannot be said of the UK. 

Drop them a line and see for yourself how helpful they can be! Best wishes and good luck.