What is IVF and how is it done? [IVF process]

Dr. Saarthak Bakshi – IVF is a simple fertility treatment. Usually IVF treatment is done, but for that we have to understand who needs it. Let us first define what is infertility? Any couple trying to have a baby for 1 year but pregnancy is not happening. 

If a woman is monitoring her cycle, which is the best fertility period which we call between 14 to 16 and now trying a lot, doing it since 1 year, but still not successful. If conception or pregnancy is not happening, then we say that you get your test done, tell the doctor. Then based on that diagnosis, we suggest what fertility treatment you need? It would be easy if it could be cured with some medicines.

One type of treatment is IUI. It is a form of treatment, if it doesn’t happen then IVF happens. So there are different types of treatments that we have to do with the first test. 

And as far as the matter of IVF is concerned, because now it has become such a common word, in the clean simple English terminology of IVF, which is called test tube baby, this term has become common. Test tube baby is a procedure which should be done inside the body and when it doesn’t happen, we do that in a laboratory. Now the laboratory is connected to the test tube.

While it has nothing to do with test tubes. The man’s sperm and the woman’s eggs, both of these are mixed inside the lab. These fuse automatically inside your body and when it is not able to be formed inside, then they fertilise by mixing both inside a laboratory and after fertilisation it is a very beautiful process. With the help of a microscope, we see at the cellular level how it grows and when it fertilises. After that, it becomes an embryo. Then we implant it back inside the woman.