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In vitro fertilisation (IVF) Treatment

IVF Treatment is by far the most common and popular High tech fertility treatment and has been accounted for over 99 % of all the suggested reproductive technology procedures.

Is in vitro fertilization for you?

In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Treatment can help you to conceive a baby if you are having ovulation problems or blockage in fallopian tubes; or if your partner is encountering a low sperm count; or if other methods have proved unsuccessful.

Treatment: What to expect

Before the beginning of the menstrual cycle, you will intake a fertility drug in order to stimulate the ovaries which develop several mature eggs for the purpose of fertilization. Generally, you release only one egg a month. You may also have to take synthetic hormone known as lupron to keep your body from releasing the eggs too early.

You will also have to visit your doctor so that you can get you blood hormone level checked and take ultrasound recordings of your ovaries in order to see the process when your eggs are mature. After the eggs get mature, your doctor will give you anesthetic and will remove the eggs from ovaries with the help of injecting a needle via your vaginal wall using ultrasound as guiding map. Then these eggs are combined with your partner’s sperms in laboratory.

After around two to five days, the fertilized eggs forms a ball of cells called as embryo. These embryos are placed into your uterus with the help of a thin catheter through your cervix. If there are extra embryos get froze if this cycle does not succeed.

However, if the treatment works and the cycles succeed, then an embryo will get implant uterine and it will grow into a baby continuously with time. In only 30 % of In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Treatment pregnancies, more than one embryo gets implanted and woman gives birth. You can easily run a pregnancy test about two weeks after the embryo is placed in your uterus.

Length of treatment

In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Treatment takes about 4 to 6 weeks to complete one cycle. One has to wait for few weeks for the eggs to mature. Then you along with your partner will have to spend half a day at doctor’s clinic getting your eggs retrieved & fertilized. You will have to visit the doctor again in 2 – 5 days later to have the eggs placed into your uterus and then you would be able to go home the same day.

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