Misconception 1: “I hope to go to the next level in my career, or to do in vitro fertilization after my body is in good shape…” Women’s ovarian function begins to decline after the age of 35, if you miss the golden age of conception for the sake of your career, and wait until the ovarian function declines significantly, and then accept any medication or the so-called “ovarian maintenance” is not enough to return to life. Therefore, it is very important to receive treatment in a regular hospital as soon as possible! In addition, undergoing IVF treatment is not as complicated as you think, as long as you adjust your mindset and arrange your time reasonably, I believe it will not affect your work and life too much. Myth 2: “Isn’t it painful and scary to take ovulation injections?” At present, most of the drugs used in the Fertility Center are high-purity, unadulterated ovulation drugs, and some of the drugs are administered by subcutaneous injection with a fine needle, which is not too painful, and does not easily cause allergies and bleeding. Many patients can inject themselves at home, which is very convenient and does not interfere with their work schedule. In order to make IVF easier and more effective for you, we will also develop some more comfortable and safe programs for you to minimize the inconvenience caused by medication and injections. Myth 3: “If I use up all my eggs with ovulation injections, will I have no eggs and early menopause in the future?” This misunderstanding is very common, but purely superfluous! There are about 300,000 eggs on the ovaries during puberty, which are depleted and shrink at a rate of about 30 eggs per day during the next 30-40 years. Without medication, only one egg grows and ovulates in a batch of follicles every month, and the other eggs in the batch wither away. Ovulation stimulation injections can make the eggs that would otherwise wither away grow up and mature, which belongs to the category of “turning waste into treasure and recycling resources”, and will not additionally deplete the stock of eggs, and thus will not make the menopause earlier. This is a kind of “waste recycling”, which will not deplete the stock of eggs and thus will not cause early menopause. Myth 4: “Ovulation injections will make you fat?” Some patients complain of weight gain after ovulation injections. This phenomenon is due to the fact that ovulation injections will increase the level of estrogen, which will cause water retention in the body (i.e., temporary “water retention”), resulting in weight gain or edema. After a period of treatment, with the metabolism of drugs, estrogen levels return to normal, the water retained in the body will be discharged from the body, weight and edema can be restored. Some women are afraid that diet and activities will affect the success of IVF, so they will take excessive supplements and limit their physical activities, or even take bed rest every day, which will naturally lead to accumulation of fat and increase in body weight. Myth 5: “IVF will increase the risk of breast cancer?” In recent years, there are some inaccurate reports that ovulation may increase the risk of cancer, and there is also gossip news that a star suffered from breast cancer because she had done multiple test tube babies. In fact, breast cancer mainly occurs in women who have the gene for breast cancer themselves, and in addition, poor lifestyle habits can also increase the risk of the disease. The risk of breast cancer in IVF patients is the same as that of the normal population, and some of the IVF patients will also suffer from breast cancer. The results of a large-sample study by Swedish scientists show that the risk of cervical carcinoma in situ and breast cancer in women who have undergone IVF is lower than that of the normal population, and therefore, doing IVF itself will not increase the risk of developing breast cancer. Myth 6: “Will the egg retrieval and transplantation procedures be painful and hurt?” Egg retrieval is a short and safe procedure. No hospitalization is required. Transplantation is performed like a leukogram and is completely painless and does not require anesthesia. After the procedure you will only need to lie flat on your back for about 20 minutes, and there is no need for hospitalization, let alone complete bed rest. Myth 7: “During IVF treatment, should I stay at home on complete bed rest?” During the whole course of treatment, you can go to work as usual, appropriate activities, do not need to completely bed rest, bed rest is not helpful to improve the chances of conception, on the contrary, prolonged bed rest will reduce the blood circulation in the uterus, affecting the implantation of the bed, and will be over-concentration may cause anxiety, leading to contractions, in addition, it will also increase the risk of blood clot formation. Myth 8: “IVF babies may be defective and prone to miscarriage?” Over the years, long-term follow-up results from reproductive medicine centers in different countries have confirmed that the rates of early miscarriage and fetal malformations and abnormalities in IVF are similar to those of natural conception. Myth 9: “Will fetal reduction cause miscarriage?” Some couples do not understand fetal reduction surgery and mistakenly think that fetal reduction will cause miscarriage, so they refuse the surgery, which results in a bad pregnancy outcome and it is too late to regret. Foetal reduction surgery is not to suck out or scrape off the pregnancy sac like abortion, but only to use a tiny needle to remove the extra pregnancy sac or terminate the development of the extra fetus, which is quite stable at the technical level, and will almost not hurt the mother’s body and the retained pregnancy sac.