In Vitro Fertilisation which widely known as IVF is a procedure where fertilisation between egg and sperm occurred outside the womb. IVF is one of the major treatments available for treating infertility and it usually performed as a last resort after the other infertility treatments have failed as it’s an expensive and invasive process that involved the removing of the eggs from the ovaries and letting the sperm fertilised them in fluid medium hence it usually called the “test tube babies”.

There are many steps that you shoud aware off when doing an IVF treatment. These steps are

- Ovarian stimulation

When patients begin their IVF treatment, the first thing to do is the stimulation

of ovaries using series of fertility medication so it produces multiple eggs for retrieval.

- Egg Retrieval

The retrieval of the egg performed using a transvaginal technique that involves an utrasound-guided needle piercing

the vaginal wall to reach the ovaries and it usually removes between ten to thirty eggs.

- Fertilisation

Both eggs and sperms were incubated together for 18 hours or until the fertilised eggs show 2 nuclei.

- Selection

The embryos that fits the grading methods of the labs were selected

- Embryo transfer

The number of embryos transferred usually depends on the number available, the age of the woman and other

health factors.

Stress usually occurred in patients who are undergoing IVF because of their complicated procedures. While there are no correlation between stress and the outcome of IVF, it’s important to treat the stress as it sometimes leads to depression.

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