The pregnancy rate is much higher in IVF when compared to intrauterine insemination cycles. Through IVF, the quality of both the eggs and the embryos can be evaluated and with this the information on the prognosis is more realistic.
When three or four inseminations have failed, the ideal is to move on to IVF. This technique will save time in achieving gestation and may have the additional advantage of freezing embryos that can be used in subsequent pregnancies, thus overcoming one of the main conditioning factors in fertility, which is the age of the patients.
Knowing when to stop performing inseminations is a virtue that is highly valued by any reproductive specialist and this moment will depend on many factors such as the age of the couple, the diagnosis, the quality of the semen or the presence of pathologies such as endometriosis, among others.