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Dr. Malpani review - African mother 14 weeks pregnant following IVF treatment at Malpani Infertility Clinic in Mumbai

To tell the truth I was never upset or concerned about consumer complaints I read about Dr. Malpani. Even before we started our IVF treatment with this incredible doctor, I had done my own research. There are countless amazing Dr. Malpani reviews and I am proud to add my own review to the thousands that already exist. Here’s my personal story. We have been struggling to conceive for many years, and we’ve been through many investigations, treatments and expensive consultations in the UK. This still resulted in immense financial strain, and two failed IVFs, which caused a lot of emotional trauma. At some point we were informed that IVF was not an option for us, because of my low egg reserves, and that we should seriously consider egg donation. We struggled to get an egg donor for about a year. The fact that I am black and my husband is white made it a real challenge, because we needed a black egg donor. Our search for an egg donor was recorded in the database of the UK National Gamete Donation Trust. The feedback we received from almost all licensed fertility clinics however was that, especially in the ethnic minority group, there was a shortage of donors. My husband and I became rather anxious and we decided to start correspondence with donation services and individuals outside of the UK. Our correspondence with institutions abroad eventually paid off when we managed to get in touch with a Doctor at the Malpani Infertility Clinic in India. Initially I was a little apprehensive, but then I decided that a second opinion regarding our infertility problem couldn’t do any harm. We were amazed that he contacted us the same day! We had numerous email conversations with Dr. Malpani and we were very impressed with his approach, openness and honesty. All our questions were answered and he eventually told us he could help us. We soon realized that Dr. Malpani is highly professional and certainly a man of integrity.I asked myself “Could such a compassionate and accomplished doctor cheat his patients?” I could simply not understand or even believe the Dr. Malpani consumer complaints I read. Dr. Malpani continued giving us a clear overview of his fees, the duration of the treatment and other very important information about IVF and infertility, which was very helpful and put our minds at ease. We found even more information on his website www.drmalpani.com. He also encouraged us to contact our GP to have a Clomid Challenge test scheduled. With the information derived from the tests, and my age (45) taken into consideration, we decided to try egg donor IVF. We were prepared to wait for a few years, but within a month we could already decide on a date on which to start the treatment, simultaneously with an anonymous egg donor, which we selected from a list. This enabled us to choose the donor that best suited our requirements. Eventually the big day arrived: I was going to India! Unfortunately my husband could only join me a week later, due to business commitments. We couldn’t believe that our expenses, even including the airfare, accommodation and cost of living, were much less than if we would have tried this IVF procedure in the UK. We had never visited India before, and because we required a calm and safe environment to focus on the IVF treatment, we needed suitable, yet affordable accommodation. Much to our appreciation, Dr. Malpani even assisted us with that! India is extremely densely populated, and despite the extreme poverty in this country, the crime rates are very low, in comparison to those in Africa and the UK. The Indian people are very welcoming and humble. The day after my arrival, after having organized our accommodation, Dr. Malpani conducted a few examinations and tests and with the results, formulated a well-defined and concise plan of treatment. During my visits to the clinic I was monitored very closely, to ensure I was responding to the treatment as planned. Thankfully, the medical facilities such as the scan room and the lab were all situated there. I was very impressed with the amazingly supportive medical assistants, nursing staff and Dr. Malpani himself. At some point we had even developed very close relationships, which was very reassuring. My many questions were responded to honestly and patiently, time and time again. Dr. Malpani even told me: “Nozipho, there is no need to worry. You are in very capable hands and I will do everything I possibly can to make a success of your IVF treatment. As soon as the embryos are transferred into your uterus, however, everything will be in God’s hands.” I was closely monitored to record my response to the treatment, and to ensure the process progressed well. The week before my husband was scheduled to provide his sperm, we had a bit of time to do some sightseeing in Mumbai and explore some beautiful places. Meanwhile, the Malpani clinic had done the appropriate screening of my egg donor. She produced and provided ten embryos. Of those ten, the best three would be utilized.On the day the transfer procedure was scheduled, Dr. Malpani and the embryologist allowed us to have a look at the donated embryos, which looked exactly like the many embryos I had been looking at in all the IVF books I had read. Thankfully the actual transfer procedure was completely painless, and within a few minutes, Dr. Aniruddha Malpani had successfully transferred the embryos into my uterus. I stayed at the clinic for approximately two hours after the procedure. Thereafter I returned to the hotel for a calm three-day rest in bed. Then, finally we were able to fly back home! The fourteen days of nerve-wrecking waiting after the treatment were terrible. It was almost impossible to be patient! Eventually the big day arrived: I went to see my doctor for a pregnancy test. What he told me was everything I had been wanting to hear for so many years: I was pregnant!!!!  The doctor congratulated me as I cried and cried. Only one of the three embryos implanted, but I was very grateful.I cannot tell you how happy my husband was when he heard the fantastic news! The days that followed I felt like I was in a haze… the pregnancy miracle took a while to really sink in. I still tested my urine on a daily basis! I have kept all the pregnancy strips as a beautiful reminder. I am now in the second trimester of my pregnancy, and my eyes fill with tears at the sight of the scans which show my beautiful baby lying peacefully in my uterus. I am forever grateful to Dr. Aniruddha and Anjali Malpani and their team for doing such an incredible job and making such an amazing miracle happen. If only I had known about the Malpani Infertility Clinic earlier… At the same time I am convinced that God sent Dr. Malpani our way, exactly at the right time, and for a very special reason. I have been thinking about my anonymous egg donor a lot as well. I will always be thankful for her and the precious gift she gave me: the incredible chance to finally become a mother. I am also very grateful that I will not have any obligations to explain to my child that I am not the biological mother. This certainly would have been different should the treatment have taken place in the UK.

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Dr.Malpani dealing with patient Complaints: Getting Pregnant After Failed IVF Cycle

If you have ever had a failed IVF cycle, but then some how managed to get pregnant on your own I’m sure you have a ton of questions. Of course you’re excited to be having a baby, but how did you get pregnant on your own after spending a bomb on your failed IVF cycle. What does this say about the IVF specialist? How often does this type of thing happen? Was the IVFspecialist lacking in education or experience?

These are all valid questions! When you do IVF, you are told in advance that there is a chance that the IVF cycle may fail. You go in with the understanding that there is this possibility , but you really don’t expect to get pregnant on your own afterwards. The first thought is that the doctor did something wrong during the IVF treatment, or that the treatment was poor quality. These are all valid feelings and some of them might actually be justified.

This is especially true for couples who have labeled as having “unexplained infertility”.  Just because your IVF cycle has failed is no reason to get disheartened or to give up ! One of the best things that any infertile couple can do is continue trying to get pregnant naturally. The more frequently you engage in sexual relations with your partner the better chances you have of getting pregnant. 

Dr Malpani discusses the commonest complaints:The pain of a failed IVF cycle.

The pain of a failed IVF cycle

IVF specialists and patients need to figure out a way to live with the fact that most IVF cycles do not succeed. For each patient who gets pregnant, there will be at least one who doesn’t and we can never predict who will be the lucky one.

So is IVF like a game of roulette where one continues to take a chance until she gets lucky?

Regrettably, it appears as though it is. Human reproduction is not a particularly effective venture – regardless of the fact whether it is being completed in an IVF facility or in the bedroom. While we can make embryos in the IVF lab, their implantation is still uncharted territory which is not in our control. Even after completing 4 IVF cycles and transferring beautiful embryos, if the patient has still not been able to get pregnant, the patient will bombard the specialist with questions , which sadly still cannot be answered us.

However, patients are not satisfied with the fact that their IVF expert does not have all the answers for a failed attempt. As they are investing so much cash, time and energy , they feel cheated when they do not get the answer, and a very honest “we do not know” is not sufficient.

 After an IVF cycle falls flat , all the flak is directed towards the specialist. Patients have lots of complaints and they feel that their specialist might have been incompetent ! Or did he goof up during the process? Because doctors are human as well, the specialist might also feel that he has let his patient down.

Due to this reason certain specialists 

resort to doing very expensive tests or experimental treatments, to “help” patients who have failed IVF cycles. These are done to keep their patients happy, and to stop them from complaining. Patients are fooled, because they feel their doctor is now going one step further – and they are finally on the path to success !

This is irrational , and it’s best to tackle the problem logically rather than to clutch at straws out of desperation.

History of IVF

There was a transient biochemical pregnancy reported by Australian Foxton School researchers in 1953. John Rock was the first to extract an intact fertilised egg. In 1959, Min Chueh Changat the Worcester Foundation, proved fertilisation in vitro was capable of proceeding to a birth of a live rabbit. Chang's discovery was seminal, as it clearly demonstrated that oocytes fertilised in vitro were capable of developing, if transferred into the uterus and thereby produce live young. The first pregnancy achieved through in vitro human fertilisation of a human oocyte was reported in The Lancet from the Monash University team in 1973, although it lasted only a few days and would today be called a biochemical pregnancy.Dr Malpani Reviews and Complaints on IVF Landrum Shettles attempted to perform an IVF in 1973, but his departmental chairman interdicted the procedure at the last moment. There was also an ectopic pregnancy reported by Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards in 1976. In 1977, Steptoe and Edwards successfully carried out a pioneering conception which resulted in the birth of the world's first baby to be conceived by IVF, Louise Brown on 25 July 1978, in Oldham General Hospital, Greater Manchester, UK.

In October 1978, it was reported that Subash Mukhopadyay, a relatively unknown physician from Kolkata, India was performing experiments on his own with primitive instruments and a household refrigerator and this resulted in a test tube baby, later named as "Durga" (alias Kanupriya Agarwal) who was born on 3 October 1978.However, state authorities prevented him from presenting his work at scientific conferences and, in the absence of scientific evidence, his work is not recognised by the international scientific community.

Steptoe and Edwards were responsible for the world’s second (confirmed) baby conceived by IVF, Alastair MacDonald born on 14 January 1979 in Glasgow. A team led by Ian Johnston and Alex Lopata were responsible for Australia’s first baby conceived by IVF, Candice Reed born on 23 June 1980 in Melbourne.^[58] It was the subsequent use of stimulated cycles with clomiphene citrate and the use of human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) to control and time oocyte maturation, thus controlling the time of collection, that converted IVF from a research tool to a clinical treatment.

This was followed by a total of 14 pregnancies resulting in nine births in 1981 with the Monash University team. The Jones team at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia, further improved stimulated cycles by incorporating the use of a follicle-stimulating hormone (uHMG). This then became known as controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH). Another step forward was the use of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRHA), thus decreasing the need for monitoring by preventing premature ovulation, and more recently gonadotrophin-releasing hormone antagonists (GnRH Ant), which have a similar function. The additional use of the oral contraceptive pill has allowed the scheduling of IVF cycles, which has made the treatment far more convenient for both staff and patients.

The ability to freeze and subsequently thaw and transfer embryos has

significantly improved the feasibility of IVF use.^[60] The other very significant milestone in IVF was the development of the intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) of single sperms by André van Steirteghem and Paul Devroey in Brussels (UZ Brussel), 1992. This has enabled men with minimal sperm production to achieve pregnancies. ICSI is sometimes used in conjunction with sperm recovery, using a testicular fine needle or open testicular biopsy. Using this method, some men with Klinefelter's syndrome, Dr Malpani Reviews and Complaints on IV Fand so would be otherwise infertile, have occasionally been able to achieve pregnancy. Thus, IVF has become the final solution for most fertility problems, moving from tubal disease to male factor, idiopathic subfertility, endometriosis, advanced maternal age, and anovulation not responding to ovulation induction.

Robert Edwards was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the development of in vitro fertilization". Carl Wood was dubbed "the father of IVF (in vitro fertilisation)" for having pioneered the use of frozen embryos.

In the US, ART cycles started in 2006 resulted in 41,343 births (54,656 infants), which is slightly more than 1% of total US births.