• Question: what would happen if i got a IVF?

    Asked by xxfatimaxx to Laura, Lily, Mark, Paul, Sarah on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by iloveyouuflake99, fatehearahman, elliesmelly.
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      Mark Roberts answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      Erm it depends if you are male or female!

      It’s a process that allows eggs to be fertilised with sperm outside of a human and then put back into the womb.

      So if you were female they would have to do an operation to extract eggs and put them back and if you were male you’d have to donate sperm

      Does that answer your question?

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      Lily Asquith answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      If you got IVF you might or might not have a baby, depending on whether or not it worked.

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      Laura Maliszewski answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I’m not totally sure what you mean, but I can give you an overview.

      If you’re a woman and didn’t become pregnant naturally, there would be a lot of tests to find out why and some treatments to try and help that.

      If you were healthy with healthy reproductive organs but still could not become pregnant, you might get approval for IVF.

      You would go on a lot of medicines to prepare your body for the procedure. A doctor would harvest some of your eggs and combine them in a lab with sperm and watch them to see if any developed into dividing cells (your ova or eggs are just one big cell. A fertilized cell is able to divide into all the cells that will eventually make up a human).

      Some fertilized eggs would be implanted in your uterus, others would be frozen in case the first ones didn’t grow. If the implanted fertilized eggs grew and developed, you would then be pregnant with however many embryos survived. You would be under regular care from your doctor before having your baby/babies.

      If the first set of fertilized eggs didn’t develop properly once implanted in your uterus, the frozen ones could be thawed and used for a second round.

      It’s a very long and complicated process, and not something that couples enter into lightly.

      Does that answer your question?

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      Sarah Bardsley answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Umm. IVF is for couples who can’t naturally conceive a baby – so if it worked you would get a baby.

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