Infertility Treatment
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For all those couples who have been trying in vain to conceive for a year or more, science has brought hope in the form of in vitro fertilisation or IVF. A procedure first successfully attempted in 1978 in England, IVF has now become a boon for couples all over the world who have constantly been under the physical and mental trauma of infertility.
What is IVF?
In vitro literally means ‘in glass’. The dictionary explains it as a process made to occur outside the biological body, in an artificial environment. Thus, in vitro fertilisation simply means the fertilisation process that occurs under lab conditions and not inside the mother’s womb.
Under natural conditions, for pregnancy to take place, the sperm from the male body unites with the egg inside the fallopian tube of the female body. However, a number of factors can contribute to this process not occurring naturally, including:
- Having damaged fallopian tubes
- Age
- Having had your fallopian tubes removed
- Male infertility issues
- Hostile cervical mucus
When a couple decides upon IVF, the woman will receive multiple injections of fertility drugs before having her eggs retrieved. Once collected, the eggs are combined with sperm, left to culture and then transferred back to woman’s womb for implantation.
