About the Clinic

• Barbados Fertility Centre was founded in 2002, to offer an international resource for infertility patients.
• We have held the gold seal of approval from JCI since 2007 and now listed in their elite group of clinics.
•  We pride ourselves on offering individualized care to each patient, leaving no stone unturned for find the underlying cause of their infertility and working towards a solution that will give them the best chance of success.
• We combine cutting edge advances in reproductive medicine with holistic care through our on site spa – The Life Wellness Centre. This combination provides success rates of 80% on women under 35.

Our top specialties include:

• Excellent in house donor egg programme, with locally sourced Afro Caribbean donors reducing cost and helping recipient couples from this ethnic group where they would normally struggle.
• We also specialize in immunology – offering couples a solution to recurrent miscarriage and numerous IVF failures.
• We see great success using vitrification – the fast freezing of both embryo’s and eggs, which we introduced in 2007.

Why to choose our clinic?

Excellent in house donor egg programme, with locally sourced Afro Caribbean donors reducing cost and helping recipient couples from this ethnic group where they would normally struggle.

We also specialise in immunology – offering couples a solution to recurrent miscarriage and numerous IVF failures.

We see great success using vitrification – the fast freezing of both embryo’s and eggs, which we introduced in 2007.

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Quality and accreditations

JCI Gold Seal – listed in elite group of clinics – only JCI accredited centre in Caribbean region

Canadian Best Practice Quality Audits Gold Certificate

What Clinic Award Winner 2015

Languages spoken

Dutch, English, French, Italian, Spanish

Treatments

• IVF (In vitro fertilization)
• IVM (In Vitro Maturation)
• ICSI (IntraCytoplasmic Sperm Injection)
• Ovarian Tissue Freezing
• AH (Assisted Hatching)
• IUI (Intra Uterine Insemination)
• Sperm Aspiration (TESA)
• Blastocyst Transfer
• Testicular Biopsy (TESE)
• Cytoplasmic transfer
• Egg Freezing

• Embryo Freezing
• FET (Frozen Embryo Transfer)
• Vasectomy Reversal
• PGD (Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis)
• Electroejaculation
• PICSI
• Donor Eggs (Fresh)
• Donor Eggs (Frozen)
• Donor Embryos
• IMSI
• Sperm Freezing
• Immunology

Egg Donation Program

Short description of the program:

Egg donation is offered to women who do not produce eggs or for those, in whom the quality of eggs is very poor. Our standard policy is to offer anonymous donation to women up to the age of 49, we will not transfer embryos once you turn 50.

Potential egg donors come forward voluntarily, purely because of a desire to help others. They are only compensated for their time and effort. They must be fit and healthy and between the ages of 18 and 34 years, unless there are exceptional circumstances.

The donors are screened for hereditary and transmissible infectious diseases and have consented to their eggs being donated.

All treatment is confidential. The couple who receive the eggs will not have access to the identity of the donor. The names are not available to either party. The donor has no claims on, or obligations towards any resulting children.

When a donor has been found we will discuss the donor’s characteristics with you before allocating the donor to you. You agree to the donor by signing the characteristics form before proceeding.

The egg donor will attend for a consultation where a full medical and family history will be taken. Screening for infectious diseases will be carried out and counseling sessions arranged.

Legal status in country:

• Donor anonymity
• Max No embryos for transfer: 3
• Donor Embryos

• Frozen Eggs
• Frozen Embryos
• PGD

Waiting period for recipient: Up to 3 months

No of Eggs guarantee: With sharing cycle 3 per recipient with full cycle 5 eggs

No of Embryos guarantee: None

Medications Included? No Yes

Total costs for fresh cycle: USD$8750 + donor meds + Recip. meds

Total costs for frozen cycle: USD$7000 (6-8 mature eggs)+ Recip. meds

What the costs include

• Consultation
• Partner’s frozen sperm
• Pick up
• ICSI

• AH (Assisted Hatching)
• Blastocyst culture
• Embryo transfer
• No of Visits: About 3 scans at BFC Clinic, Freeze remaining embryos: Yes for 1st year every year. there after is USD$550.00/year

Money back guarantee program:

No

Yes

Additional Services:

• Emergency service
• Online consultations / Skype
• Telephone consultations

• Translation services
• Parking
• Public transport access

Travel Assistance

• General travelling assistance: Yes
• Pick up from the airport: Yes
• Pick up from the hotel: Yes

Success Rates

IVF/ICSI Clinical Pregnancy & Live Birth Rates (Fresh/Thaw Cycles)*

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Fresh Cycles
Frozen/Thaw cycles

A "clinical pregnancy" has a pregnancy sac seen in the uterus on ultrasound exam.
The "live birth rate" is the percentage of all IVF cycles that lead to a live birth. This rate does not include miscarriage or still birth and multiple-order births such as twins and triplets are counted as one pregnancy.

IVF/ICSI Clinical Pregnancy Rates (Egg Donation Cycles)

Fresh donor egg embryos	Thawed donor egg embryos
70%	50%

Learn more aboutsuccess rates.

Costs

• Consultations: Initial Consultation over the telephone: FREE
• IVF (In vitro fertilization): IVF (inc. embryo freezing for 1 year if required): 5,750.00 USD$
• ICSI (IntraCytoplasmic Sperm Injection): IVF with ICSI (inc. embryo freezing for 1 year if required): 6,750.00 USD$
• AH (Assisted Hatching): 450.00 USD$
• Blastocyst Transfer: 450.00 USD$

• FET (Frozen Embryo Transfer): (including Assisted Hatching): 1,250.00 USD$
• PGD (Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis): Pre Genetic Screening ( for 8 embryos, US$250 per additional embryo): 4,000.00 USD$
• Egg Freezing & Storage: 5,000.00 USD$ (does not include storage)
• Testicular Biopsy (TESE): 750.00 USD$

Other Payment Information

• Free initial consultation
• Payment plans

• Credit cards
• Private Insurance

Short description of the fertility national law or policies in the country:

Egg donation is anonymous
Governed by Barbados Medical Council
Adhere to UK HEFA Guidelines

Check also:

• Fertility Law Worldwide
• Legal & Ethical Issues for fertility