Beat Infertility

Today’s bonus episode guest is Dr. Sue Ellen Carpenter, founding physician and CEO of Bloom Fertility in Atlanta.  Dr. Carpenter and Heather discuss INVOcell as an alternative to IVF: INTRODUCTION I’d like to start by introducing you to our audience. Tell us who you are, where you work, what you do, and how you got to where you are today. Take us through your career journey. Why did you choose to go into medicine? I understand, although you did not go through infertility yourself, that your children experienced infertility. Are you able to tell us their stories?   INVOCELL Let’s start with the basics of the INVOcell device itself. How does the process work, and how does it feel to the patient? Can you walk us through it step-by-step? I always thought that anesthesia is used in IVF because of the pain involved in the procedure. Is that not the case? What should patients be doing during the incubation period for INVOcell? Since the transfers are always fresh transfers, are you able to save any embryos afterw