Fertility treatments

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  • what do fertility drugs do?
    increase FSH and LH levels
  • what is fertility?
    ability to have children
  • what does IVF stand for?
    In-vitro fertilisation
  • first step of IVF?
    women are given FSH drug to stimulate eggs to mature
  • 2nd step of IVF?
    eggs are taken from womans ovaries
  • 3rd step of IVF?
    egg is fertilised by sperm in a fertilisation dish
  • 4th stage of IVF?
    fertilised eggs develop into embryos in incubator
  • what temp is incubator?
    optimum temp for embryo to grow
  • 5th stage of IVF?
    embryos are tiny balls so are removed and inserted into mothers uterus
  • What is ICSI?
    sperm is injected into egg directly