IVF clinics and results in Utah
4 clinics, 2,904 procedures in 2021.

Utah's 2021 ART figures

Few clinics, high use: four reporting clinics, and a procedure rate above the national one. For Utah residents in 2021:

Counted by the patient's state of residence; excludes cycles in which eggs or embryos were only banked. Source: CDC, State-Specific ART Surveillance, 2021 Data Brief (December 2023).

The 2,426 embryo transfers led to 1,182 live-birth deliveries and 1,289 live-born infants. Separately, 1,173 of the 46,712 babies born to Utah residents during 2021 were conceived with ART.

Transfer day and the two-week wait

Map to the Positive walks through the last two phases of IVF, the ones that feel most uncertain:

1. Embryo transfer: fresh in the same cycle or frozen in a later one (many centers now prioritize frozen transfer). An outpatient procedure without anesthesia, 10 to 15 minutes, followed by 15 to 30 minutes of rest and a return to normal activities; progesterone supplementation begins.
2. The wait (14 days): implantation happens on day 9 to 11 if it works, and a blood beta-hCG test on day 12 to 14 gives the answer. If positive, progesterone continues and an ultrasound follows in 2 weeks; if negative, the medication stops and planning for the next attempt begins.

The book calls this wait the most emotionally difficult stretch of the process.

This is one chapter. The map has 42.

The transfer and the two-week wait are Phases 4 and 5 in Chapter 35 of Map to the Positive, in Station IV. The chapter also covers stimulation, retrieval and the lab, the common myths, and the questions to ask before IVF.