In simple words IVF is a process in with the egg from the mother ovary is taken and then fertilized but the father’s sperm outside the mother body. This process is done in the laboratory where fertilized egg is cultured for 2–6 days in a growth medium and is then implanted the embryo in the same or another woman's uterus to complete a successful pregnancy.
Couples can be benefited from IVF if they are diagnosed with the Defects in the following:
- Ovulation
- Sperm count
- Endometriosis
- Uterus
- Fallopian Tubes
- Antibody with harm egg or sperm
- If sperm is unable to penetrate or survive in the cervical mucus.
In Vitro Fertilization process
IVF process starts with the ovary stimulations in which during eight to 14 days near the beginning of menstrual cycle mother has to take gonadotropin, which is a category of fertility drug that stimulates ovaries to develop multiple mature eggs for fertilization as normal only one egg is formed from the ovary. Apart from this mother are also given a synthetic hormone like leuprolide or cetrorelix which keeps a body releasing eggs earlier than normal time. After this process Follicle (the fluid-filled sacs where eggs mature) development takes place. Under the complete supervision of doctor’s blood hormone levels are checked and through ultrasound measurements of mother ovaries are done.
Then the trigger shot process is done when the follicles are ready an injection is ejected that causes the eggs to mature fully and become capable of being fertilized. Mature eggs are gathered by the doctor. They give an anesthetic and insert an ultrasound probe through your vagina to look at the mother ovaries and identify the follicles. Once the follicles are found then the thin needle is inserted through the vaginal wall to remove the eggs from the follicles. Normally eight to 15 eggs are retrieved. Then the Fertilization process takes place an embryologist (a scientist who are specializes in eggs, sperm, and embryos) will examine the eggs before combining them with the father’s sperm and incubating them overnight. Fertilization generally happens during this time. If in case eggs that aren't normal may not fertilized. Or if sperm is of poor quality then also fertilization will be unsuccessful. In this case doctor may recommend a technique called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). In this process a single sperm is injected directly into each mature egg. After three days when the egg is retrieval, some of the eggs that were successfully fertilized become six- to 10-celled embryos. By the fifth day, some of these embryos will become blastocysts with a fluid-filled cavity and tissues that are beginning to separate into placenta and baby.
Then the doctor selects the most viable embryo or embryos to place in mother’s uterus. Then the process of planting the embryos takes place. Depending on the age of the mother and diagnosis, doctor will place between one and five embryos in to the mother uterus by inserting a thin tube (a catheter) through the cervix. If the treatment is successfully implants then the treatment works, an embryo implants in to the mother uterine wall continues to grow into a baby. We have to keep in mind that if more than one embryo is transferred, then the chance of pregnancy is higher. It may be happens a probability of having a multiple pregnancy approx 20 percent of babies born through IVF Services in Gurgaon are twins, triplets, or more.
Success rate of IVF
IVF process totally depends on each couple's reasons for infertility and their ages. Younger women normally have healthier eggs and have high success rates. According to many surveys Success ratio age wise in IVF process is given below:
- 41 percent for women younger than 35
- 31 percent for women age 35 to 37
- 22 percent for women age 38 to 40
- 12 percent for women age 41 to 42
Contact information:
W-Pratiksha Hospital
Golf Course Ext. Road, Sushant Lok - II, Sector 56, Gurgaon - 122011
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