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The GYFT Clinic is a complete women's health care facility offering comprehensive fertility and gynecology services. Renowned as the Tacoma fertility clinic, we have been serving our south Puget Sound communities for more than 20 years - with more babies born through our clinic than any other operating in Western Washington today. Our unequaled experience and longevity in the field of infertility provide our patients with the best possible chance to achieve a pregnancy with success rates among the highest in the nation. And we cost less! We have always believed that anyone struggling with infertility should be able to afford treatment and have made it a priority to keep our fees lower than our peers - and this has never been more important than during the current economic downturn. Superior levels of experience, success, personal attention and cost savings make us worth the drive from anywhere in the Pacific Northwest.

With a primary focus on infertility, we have intended this Web site as an educational resource for those wishing to get the facts on the various diagnosis and treatment alternatives available for couples facing the very unsettling yet all too common prospect of not being able to conceive a child. We hope that by providing a wealth of current information on the subject, users will familiarize themselves with the terms and methods of treatment employed in the realm of infertility while at the same time recognize that the possibility of a cure is very real.

With a general understanding of the processes used to detect and overcome infertility, we find that couples tend to be more at ease with the entire treatment process once the decision to seek help is made. We believe that minimizing stress while attempting to conceive is an important ingredient for success, so in addition to empowering users with knowledge from this Web site, our personable staff and pleasant clinic environment ideally mix to provide a low-key, comfortable patient experience.

Also note that we have tried to present this information in a light, sometimes humorous tone. We realize the emotional rigors involved in accepting and dealing with infertility. In our experience, a sense of humor goes a long way in relieving the unavoidable anxiety associated with the treatment process. Our strongest recommendation is to try and not take this infertility thing so seriously that the fun disappears from your daily life. You have to admit, we're going to be dealing with things like sperm, periods, ovulation, intercourse, etc. - stuff we've all heard jokes and laughed about at some time during our lives.

So sit back, relax, and explore our website. If you learn something you didn’t know before and it makes you just a little less trepidant about dealing with infertility, then this site has served its purpose.

Look below to read some brief descriptions of our menu options. If you find an area that interests you, click on the menu title of the same name at the top of the page or on the menu bar to the left to learn more.

Here we describe many of the potential causes of infertility, both male and female, as well as the preliminary testing used to determine such. Once a cause of infertility is diagnosed, your physician will recommend the most efficacious method of treatment to combat any findings of infertility. Treatments can often begin immediately following the diagnosis and may be used in combination with each other to achieve a desired result. Many of these treatment options are outlined below. We also describe what you might expect from a typical first visit here at GYFT.

This section describes the process of ovulation in the female patient. We discuss ovarian physiology, some of the signs of ovulatory dysfunction, as well as the process of monitoring and inducing ovulation in a clinical setting so we can be sure that an egg or eggs is being produced in a given treatment cycle. The process of stimulating the ovaries to produce multiple eggs using fertility medications is also described here.

Intrauterine Insemination (IUI)
This section describes the method of treatment called intrauterine insemination, or IUI. How it works, why it is beneficial, and how the sperm are processed are all detailed here.

Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART)
Here we detail the more aggressive methods of infertility treatment from in vitro fertilization (IVF), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), assisted embryo hatching, to embryo/blastocyst transfer and cryopreservation. Also included are our latest published ART statistics including pregnancy rates.

Reproductive Assays Laboratory
Reproductive Assays Laboratory, or RAL, is our onsite laboratory providing specialized testing in the areas of andrology, embryology, and endocrine testing. Here you will find explanations of the various sperm-related assays including seminal fluid analyses, sperm preparation for IUI, the sperm penetration assay, sperm banking, and sperm preparation for sex selection. Under embryology, we discuss egg/embryo development and physiology as it pertains to in vitro fertilization. Finally, we present a description of each of the hormones assayed at RAL and how they impact one’s fertility potential.

Get To Know GYFT
Here’s where you get the chance to find out about us. Learn about our professional staff of physicians, nurses, and lab technicians.

E-mail a staff member, find out where we're located and how to reach us. Soon, you'll be able to visit our message board to ask questions or review answers to others’ questions, or talk in real-time to fellow users about their experiences with infertility in our chat room.

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