2007-01-02 07:13:06 · 8 answers · asked by rty 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Trying to Conceive
IVF: In vitro fertilization, a laboratory procedure in which sperm are placed with an unfertilized egg in a Petri dish to achieve fertilization. The embryo is then transferred into the uterus to begin a pregnancy or cryopreserved (frozen) for future use. IVF was originally devised to permit women with damaged or absent Fallopian tubes to have a baby. Normally a mature egg is released from the ovary (ovulated), then enters the Fallopian tube, and waits in the neck of the tube for a sperm to fertilize it. With defective Fallopian tubes, this is not possible. The first IVF baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born in England in 1978.
2007-01-02 07:16:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simply stated, IVF involves removing eggs from a woman, fertilizing them in the laboratory (in a culture dish, actually, not a test tube) and then transferring the fertilized eggs, or zygotes, into the uterus a few days later.
More specifically, after superovulation with hormones to produce multiple eggs, the IVF team places the retrieved eggs in sterile culture media along with processed sperm and keeps them at normal body temperature inside an incubator, where fertilization and early cell division take place. Then the team returns the fertilized and dividing eggs to the uterus. From that point, if the zygotes implant successfully and become embryos, the pregnancy progresses as it would naturally.
2007-01-02 07:22:46 · answer #2 · answered by Serinity4u2find 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would suggest you try www.myivfalternative on the fertility page. There is a ton of info on IVF, what it is, how it works, an actual IVF diary of Mag with Videos and text of her going through it. Hope this helps.
2007-01-02 18:05:57 · answer #3 · answered by Jeremy C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Invitro Fertilization
2007-01-02 07:15:07 · answer #4 · answered by Lotus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Invitro fertilization-an egg (ova) is fertilized in a test tube then implanted into the uterus by the doctor.
2007-01-02 07:19:36 · answer #5 · answered by Country girl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the private sector for artificial insemination, normalized maximum age is 40 years, while for egg donation goes from 45 to 50 years.
2015-06-26 01:25:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Invitro fertilization. They take the sperm and egg and fertilize it outside the body. Once it is growing, they implant it in the uterus to grow.
2007-01-02 07:16:18 · answer #7 · answered by wayfaroutthere 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great explanation on the linked page...
2007-01-02 08:03:36 · answer #8 · answered by IVF Expert 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋