What is IVF?
Basically IVF involves collecting eggs from the ovary, putting them together with sperm in a dish and, if those sperms fertilise an egg, putting the embryo or embryos that result into the womb.
The treatment
Every month women prepare several eggs in their ovaries, but usually only one is chosen by the body to be released into the fallopian tubes. With IVF, the ovaries are stimulated to produce more than one egg to give a better chance of collecting at least one which is healthy.
Combinations of drugs given by injection are used to stimulate egg production over a period of two to five weeks. The one drug (gonadotrophin) acts on the ovary to make it produce more eggs than it normally does and the other drug stops ovulation. On the day after the last injection of gonadotrophins, an injection of the hormone hCG (human Chorionic Gonadotrophin) is given. This matures the eggs, which should be ready for collection about 35 hours later (this may vary slightly between clinics).
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Basically IVF involves collecting eggs from the ovary, putting them together with sperm in a dish and, if those sperms fertilise an egg, putting the embryo or embryos that result into the womb.
The treatment
Every month women prepare several eggs in their ovaries, but usually only one is chosen by the body to be released into the fallopian tubes. With IVF, the ovaries are stimulated to produce more than one egg to give a better chance of collecting at least one which is healthy.
Combinations of drugs given by injection are used to stimulate egg production over a period of two to five weeks. The one drug (gonadotrophin) acts on the ovary to make it produce more eggs than it normally does and the other drug stops ovulation. On the day after the last injection of gonadotrophins, an injection of the hormone hCG (human Chorionic Gonadotrophin) is given. This matures the eggs, which should be ready for collection about 35 hours later (this may vary slightly between clinics).
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