<p>You and your husband are ready to start a family-you have a wonderful home, stable jobs, and the desire to make a beautiful baby. Unfortunately, something is wrong and the two of you are unable to reproduce. There are quite a few assisted reproductive technologies available to infertile couples, but in vitro fertilization accounts for more than 95 percent of all of these procedures. There are many stages to the IVF procedure, including retrieval, embryo culture, and transferring of the embryo. It’s really important that you learn all of the timing and development stages that you will encounter, so you know what to expect in terms of the embryo before it is transferred back to you. For example, you should know exactly how the fertilized egg divides before it is being transferred-and you should know this in detail. There are two types of transfer possible, and both have advantages and disadvantages. These include the standard three-day transfer or a blastocyst transfer. When your embryos are still in the lab, you should expect IVF specialists to perform a number of techniques to improve their health, like assisted hatching which should help them better implant in your uterus.</p>