When you
start considering artificial means for conceiving a baby, IVF is one of the
most common and successful treatments available. Thought the process can be a
little overwhelming, you are guaranteed to get positive results. However you
should pursue it only when the other fertility treatments have turned out to be
useless. Although in certain cases IVF is recommended as the very first
treatment. Age plays an important role in this process. Younger females seem to
have more successful IVF pregnancies than older ones. Your success might also
be affected by the use of an egg donor.
The whole procedure can get really stressful.
All the regular visits for blood work, ultrasounds, injections, etc. can really
make you feel very weak, and that is before the hormones start messing with
your moods. Moreover the cost of the treatment can be a big problem for a lot
of people. The more informed you are, the more in control you will be. Here are
certain things that you should be expecting:
As soon as you have your first appointment with your doctor, he or she
will make preparations to calculate menstrual cycle to detect the appropriate
day of ovulation. He may also give you certain medications to control your
cycle and the ovulation.
Officially your treatment begins when your periods starts. You will be
asked to have an ultrasound and blood work done on day two of your periods. If
everything is normal, the treatment continues.
In the next step the ovaries are stimulated by hormones to produce
follicles which then mature to form eggs by injecting hcg.
After mature eggs have formed, they are retrieved by the doctors and
combined with the sperm outside the body to let them fertilise.
After fertilisation takes place the embryo is transferred into the
woman’s uterus where it gets implanted which makes her pregnant.
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