The use of hormones to treat infertility

• Pros of IVF

  •Infertile couple can have children

  •Microscopes have developed, improving IVF success rate and can remove single cells from an embryo (test for disease)
• Cons of IVF

  • Low success rate
  • Physically and emotionally stressful
  • Can have multiple births
  • Unused embryos destroyed
• Steps of IVF

  • Giving mother fertility drug, containing FSH to stimulate maturation of eggs and LH to stimulate Ovulation
  • Eggs are collected from mother and fertilised by sperm in lab
  • Develop into embryo
  • Inserted back into uterus