If you are having difficulty conceiving a child, or have been approached for IVF by your fertility clinic, then this blog post is for you. We will look at just what IVF really is, as well as how it is available in Pakistan. In Pakistan IVF is an expensive and painful process.
But after years of struggle and waiting, a single woman by the name Shumai Alvi started it all: a countrywide network of clinics, providing access to fertility care regardless of financial means. If you are looking for information about IVF in Pakistan, this article is for you. We have tried our best to gather all the relevant information which will help you decide if IVF is something that would be a good option for you and your family.
What is IVF?
In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process in which an egg is fertilised by sperm in the laboratory, before being transferred to the woman's uterus. This is usually done using a single sperm for each egg and sometimes with several sperm for each egg. This is different from other forms of assisted reproductive technology (ART) such as intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), which involves inserting a single sperm into an egg outside the body.
The resulting embryo may be transferred to the woman's uterus oropiancyclya, a procedure that takes advantage of the natural process of implantation where embryos implant into the lining of the uterus and grow there until they are ready to be born.
Types of IVF treatments
There are many types of IVF treatments, but they all aim to achieve the same thing: to get your baby or embryo to grow inside your womb.
The main type of treatment is in vitro fertilisation (IVF). This involves fertilising a woman's eggs with sperm in a laboratory, then placing them in her womb. The best chance of success is when the egg and sperm are from the same man.
Another treatment is gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT), where eggs are removed from the woman's ovary and placed directly into the womb via a small tube called an intrauterine device (IUD). This allows more than one egg to be fertilised at once, increasing chances of pregnancy.
Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) involves placing semen directly into the womb through a catheter inserted into a small incision. It has a lower success rate than other treatments but can be used if you have blocked fallopian tubes or have very low levels of male hormones such as testosterone.
What's the process of IVF?
IVF is a process that combines egg fertilisation (fertilisation of one or more eggs with sperm) and embryo transfer (placing embryos into the uterus). It is also called in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
The main steps of IVF are:
- Collection of eggs: This takes place when you go to your doctor, who may do this at home or in a clinic. The doctor scrapes some of your eggs from your ovaries using a tiny needle. The eggs are then sent to a lab for analysis.
- Collection of sperm: Sperm is collected by masturbation or by surgically placing a device inside the vagina to collect sperm directly from the testicles (called masturbation or intrauterine insemination). A woman's partner can also donate sperm if he has not had sex with anyone else recently (in which case he would use a syringe to deposit his sperm directly into her vagina).
- Fertilising the egg: Once all the eggs have been collected and analysed, they are mixed with sperm in an incubator inside the laboratory until they begin to grow into embryos, which look like miniature versions of an unborn baby but are only about half its size at this stage
IVF treatment and IVF protocols
If you want to improve your experience with IVF treatment, it is important to understand more about the IVF process. This article will hopefully give you the information that you need to be more comfortable with what is involved in the IVF process, and to develop a greater understanding of how treatments are administered as well as the various protocols that are used. The most successful IVF protocols, such as the Ganzhong and Intracytoplasmic Single-Cell inject (ICSI), currently have a success rate as high as 70 to 80%. This success rate per clinic or country varies.
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