Fertility Center

Alabama Fertility Specialists

Birmingham, AL

SART MemberLab Accredited1,130 Annual Cycles

Services Offered

IVFIUIICSIGenetic Testing (PGT)Embryo FreezingDonor EggDonor SpermLGBTQ+ Family BuildingMale InfertilityRecurrent Pregnancy Loss

About

Alabama Fertility (formally Alabama Fertility Specialists) is an independent, physician-owned practice in Birmingham, Alabama, co-founded by reproductive endocrinologist Michael Steinkampf, MD, who has since retired. In September 2021 the Birmingham practice ART merged into it, and the combined team now works under the Alabama Fertility name. Five reproductive endocrinologists currently practice there, including Janet McLaren Bouknight, MD, and Beth Malizia, MD.

The clinic is at 3490 Independence Drive in Birmingham, with an on-site laboratory for hormone, immune and advanced semen testing, and keeps affiliations with local hospitals including Brookwood Baptist, St. Vincent's and Grandview.

Treatment ranges from ovulation induction, IUI and donor sperm insemination to IVF with extended embryo culture, ICSI, assisted hatching and preimplantation genetic testing (PGT-A and PGT-M), with embryos frozen on site. The donor egg program offers both fresh cycles with its own recruited donors and frozen eggs through a partnership with Fairfax EggBank. The practice also handles recurrent miscarriage and complex reproductive surgery, such as hysteroscopic, laparoscopic and robotic procedures for fibroids and endometriosis, as well as microsurgical tubal reversal.

IVF Success Rates

CDC 2022 data — the most recent final figures published

Diagnosis

Own Eggs

Live birth rate per intended egg retrieval

Age Group	This Clinic	National
<35	56.5%	49.7%
35-37	40.6%	36.3%
38-40	27.1%	23.1%
>40	4.3%	7.7%

Sample: 301 cycles at this clinic

Donor Eggs

Live birth rate per embryo transfer

Egg / Embryo Type	This Clinic	National
Fresh embryo, fresh egg	—	52.0%
Fresh embryo, frozen egg	—	45.2%
Frozen embryo	37.5%	45.1%
Donated embryo	28.0%	42.2%

Sample: 66 cycles at this clinic

Three-year trend

Overall figures only — CDC publishes the diagnosis breakdown for 2022 alone.

Age Group	2020	2021	2022
<35	47.1%	46.0%	56.5%
35-37	37.5%	23.5%	40.6%
38-40	27.8%	15.8%	27.1%
>40	6.5%	0.0%	4.3%

Success rates depend heavily on which patients a clinic accepts, so these numbers should not be used to rank clinics against one another. Cells CDC suppressed for small sample sizes (1-4 cycles) are shown as a dash.