Fertility

Doctors that specialize in fertility treatments can be found at several practices including:

Before you travel abroad for fertility treatment, make sure that your case is one of the cases that has no or very little chance of conceiving naturally. These could be

1. If you have already had one or more miscarriages
2. If you are a female over 36 -38 years old and have not conceived after 6-8 months of trying
3. If you are below 36 but haven’t managed to get pregnant after 1 year of trying
4. If you are a female with identified physical genital challenges
5. If you are a male with severe semen issues
6. If you are a female facing cancer and you wish to perform egg freezing for future pregnancy
7. If you are looking for egg donation and this is not permitted in your country
8. If you are looking for donated sperm and this is not permitted in your country
9. If you wish to become a parent through a surrogate mother and there are a lot of restrictions or it is not permitted at all in your country
10. If you are facing sexual disjunction, anatomic issues or uterus surgeries
11. If you are near menopause

When exploring your options with fertility clinics in Singapore, make sure to take a requested line of tests in your home country as this will save you time and maybe money if these treatments are covered by your country’s health system. Be aware that for some treatments you will need to get medication and hormones and be prepared for that. Also, you need to know that you will have to spend some of your savings as the Singapore clinics work on a self-pay basis by cash payment or credit card. Total costs vary per treatment and therefore you will need to perform detailed research about treatment prices before you travel.

Here are a few tips that might help you select the right clinic :

1. Proximity or easy access is an important factor and, of course, associated with your air ticket cost as for some types of treatments (embryo transfer, egg donation, PRP treatments) you might need to travel more than once to this destination.
2. Reliability, infrastructure, safety and stability of the destination are also crucial.
3. Cost is a very important factor, but the most important is to get pregnant. Make sure to verify the quality of work of a clinic. Most reliable clinics keep records of their success rates per year.
4. Make sure to get the most recent information on a clinic, as although some clinics may have had a good reputation in the past, if key people have left or retired recently, the quality of their results might have been affected.
5. Ask about the full range of procedures and get informed about the cost. Of course it is understandable that final cost might change if an unknown condition is identified and treated before the fertility treatment, but having an indication of cost in advance is useful.
6. Read all documents and make sure that you understand terms, conditions and actual charges before the treatment.
7. Make sure that all documents for payment are in English and avoid signing any papers in a foreign language.
8. If you are travelling to have a baby by a surrogate mother, make sure to understand all legal conditions of Bangladesh and the clinic destination before you travel. It will help you with all procedures for bringing you baby back to your country
9. And of course make sure to find out as much as you can about the doctor who will perform your fertility treatment. Read his or her CV, learn what other people say, ask about the number of hours spent in doctor’s retraining per year and, if possible, make contact with him/her.
10. If you are traveling for treatment with donated eggs or sperm and the origin of the donor is important to you for race or religious reasons, make sure to ask the clinic if they have that particular type of donor.

To get an idea for the cost of fertility related services you may find this helpful

https://www.imoney.sg/articles/fertility-treatments-cost/