Survey on In Vitro Fertilization-A Cure or Complications?
Today, in vitro fertilization (IVF) is practically a household word. But not so long ago, it was a mysterious procedure for infertility that produced what were then known as "test-tube babies." Louise Brown, born in England in 1978, was the first such baby to be conceived outside her mother's womb. Unlike the simpler process of artificial insemination in which sperm is placed in the uterus and conception happens otherwise normally. In vitro fertilization is a process of fertilization where an egg is combined with sperm in vitro. The process involves monitoring and stimulating a woman's ovulatory process, removing an ovum or ova from her ovaries and letting sperm fertilize them in a culture medium in a laboratory. IVF is a complex and expensive procedure only about 5% of couples with infertility seeks it out. However, since its introduction in the U.S. in 1981, 1.9% of all babies in the U.S. are born through IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies (ART). ...