• Question: How does Ivf Treament Work?

    Asked by mmsp to David, Luna, Probash on 25 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Probash Chowdhury

      Probash Chowdhury answered on 24 Mar 2011:

      The medication the doctors give the female helps her uterus become receptive to the fertilized egg. The egg (which has been harvested and stored at an earlier date) is fertilised in a petri dish with the male’s sperm (by using some very delicate pipettes and a microscope). Often a few eggs are fertilised in order to give a better chance of one (or two – or all) surviving to become a pregnancy. The fertilised eggs are implanted back into the female’s uterus and hopefully the eggs implant and develop into foetuses and babies.

    • Photo: David Pyle

      David Pyle answered on 25 Mar 2011:

      IVF means ‘in vitro fertilisation’ and it describes a number of techniques by which egg cells are fertilised by sperm outside the body

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