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Louise Mitchell
London Women’s Clinic
How does IVF work?
Louise Mitchell explains that IVF works by stimulating a woman’s ovaries to create eggs, which are fertilised with sperm and then incubated in the lab. On day 5, the best embryo is put back into her womb.
Transcript
So IVF works by stimulating the lady's ovaries to create eggs and for those eggs to go into the lab to be fertilised with either partner or donor sperm. Those unfertilised eggs are then put into incubators within the lab and they develop into embryos. In the London Women's Clinic, we tend to do most of our embryo transfers on day five, so throughout the timeline within the lab, the embryos are assessed on a regular basis and then the ladies come back into clinic five days after their egg collection to have their embryo transfer, where we put the best embryo back and then hopefully, 11 to 14 days later, a positive pregnancy test.