I'm Dr. Tash, and today we'll be talking about exactly how you go about getting pregnant.
Falling pregnant can be as simple as just having sex. But for many couples it's not that simple however. Did you know that one in six couples has trouble conceiving? When we talk about problems with infertility we actually use two broad groups. We talk about the infertile group and the sub-fertile group. Infertile is like impossible meaning it could be because there's no sperm, there is no vagina, there is no cervix, there is no uterus, there are no patent or open fallopian tubes, there are no ovaries, there are no eggs coming from the ovaries. When we talk about sub-fertile we're meaning that perhaps there is some sperm, but there's less of it or it's …show more content…
Because at the end of the day we all like to avoid any medical intervention. For many people medical intervention is necessary and unavoidable and thankfully there are options for you. One option is intrauterine insemination and what that involves is a man delivering sperm into a jar in a lab situation. That sperm is prepared, then put into a catheter. That catheter is then inserted into the woman's uterus. That's called intrauterine insemination. Another option is IVF. IVF stands for in vitro fertilization. "In vitro," glass in Latin, and you've probably seen a test tube in the lab when you were in high school perhaps. This is a test tube. Hence the term "test tube baby."
In vitro fertilization involves obtaining sperm from a man and at the same time you obtain eggs from a woman. Once we have obtained those eggs and that sperm we then put them together in a dish. We hope to make embryos when we've done in vitro fertilization. That's the purpose. We're creating embryos. Embryos may often sit in a little dish like this and they're incubated, they're kind of nursed in a lab for a number of days. The aim then is to put back a single embryo and then we hope that that embryo becomes a live healthy
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Falling pregnant can be as simple as just having sex. But for many couples it's not that simple however. Did you know that one in six couples has trouble conceiving? When we talk about problems with infertility we actually use two broad groups. We talk about the infertile group and the sub-fertile group. Infertile is like impossible meaning it could be because there's no sperm, there is no vagina, there is no cervix, there is no uterus, there are no patent or open fallopian tubes, there are no ovaries, there are no eggs coming from the ovaries. When we talk about sub-fertile we're meaning that perhaps there is some sperm, but there's less of it or it's …show more content…
Because at the end of the day we all like to avoid any medical intervention. For many people medical intervention is necessary and unavoidable and thankfully there are options for you. One option is intrauterine insemination and what that involves is a man delivering sperm into a jar in a lab situation. That sperm is prepared, then put into a catheter. That catheter is then inserted into the woman's uterus. That's called intrauterine insemination. Another option is IVF. IVF stands for in vitro fertilization. "In vitro," glass in Latin, and you've probably seen a test tube in the lab when you were in high school perhaps. This is a test tube. Hence the term "test tube baby."
In vitro fertilization involves obtaining sperm from a man and at the same time you obtain eggs from a woman. Once we have obtained those eggs and that sperm we then put them together in a dish. We hope to make embryos when we've done in vitro fertilization. That's the purpose. We're creating embryos. Embryos may often sit in a little dish like this and they're incubated, they're kind of nursed in a lab for a number of days. The aim then is to put back a single embryo and then we hope that that embryo becomes a live healthy
term