Have you heard of IVF ?(In vitro fertilization) here is all you need to know about IVF

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In vitro fertilization is a type of (IVF) is a type of assistive reproductive technology. It involves retrieving egg from a woman's ovaries and fertilizing them with sperm. This fertilized egg is known as embryo, the embryo can then be frozen for storage or transferred to a woman's depending on an individual situation, IVF can use:

• your eggs and your partner's sperm

• Your eggs and donor's sperm

• donor's eggs and your partner's sperm

• donor's eggs and donor's sperm

• donated embryos

Your doctor's can also implant embryos in a surrogate or gestational carrier.The success

• IVF helps people with infertility to have a baby

• Reduce fertility in women over the age of 40

• blocked or damaged Fallopian tube

• Reduced ovarian functions

• uterine fibroids

• Infertility in males such as low sperm count or abnormalities in sperm shape

• unexplained infertility.

Parents may also choose IVF if the run the risk of passing a genetic disorder unto their offspring. A medical lab can test the embryo for abnormalities, then a doctor only implants an embryos without genetic defects.

Before beginning IVF women will first undergo ovarian reserve testing, this involve taking a blood sample and testing it for the level.of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), the result of this test will give your doctor information about the size and quality of your eggs, the doctor will also examine the uterus .This may involve doing an ultrasound sound. This test can reveal the health of your uterus and helps the doctor to determine the best way to implant the embryos.

Men will need to have sperm testing, this involve giving a semen sample which a lab will analyze for the number, size and shape of the sperm , if the sperm are less in strength, an intracytoplasmic Sperm injection (ICSI) will.be required. During intracytoplasmic sperm injection, the sperm will be injected directly into the eggs by the technician.

• What are the financial, physical and emotional
  Stresses associated with IVF

• what about the legal and emotional issues associated with using donated eggs, sperm, embryos or a surrogate.

• what you will do with an unused embryos

• How many embryos do you wish to transfer, the more the embryos transferred the higher the risk of multiple pregnancy

• What will be your reaction of your pregnancy turns out for you to have either twins or triplets

There are five steps involve which are:

Stimulation: During a woman's menstrual cycle one a single egg is produced but IVF requires multiple eggs and so a woman is given some fertility drugs to boost the production of more eggs

Egg retrieval: This is a surgical operation performed with anesthesia it is other wise known as follicular aspiration.

Insemination: the male partner will now need to give a semen sample, the technician will mix the sperm with the eggs in a petri dish

Embryo culture: The doctor will monitor the fertilized eggs make sure they're dividing and developing

Transfer: When the embryos are matured they are moved for implantation, this usually takes place within three to five days after fertilization.

• Miscarriage

• ectopic pregnancy

• Bleeding may occur

• loss birth weight and premature birth may occur as a result of multiple pregnancy

• Ovarian hyper stimulation syndrome (OHSS)

Deciding whether to go in for in vitro fertilization and how to try it is the first step, if the first attempt is unsuccessful it could be an incredible complicated situation. The financial, physical ,emotional toll of this process can be difficult. Speak with your doctor to know which option is better for you.