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Louise Mitchell
London Women’s Clinic
What is IVF?
Louise Mitchell defines IVF as In Vitro Fertilisation. It involves stimulating a woman’s ovaries so that she produces more than one egg, and then inseminating them with sperm in the lab.
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So, IVF stands for in vitro fertilisation, and it's the process of stimulating the ovaries with an injectable medication, and to develop eggs within those ovaries. Then going to theatre for a short procedure called an egg collection, to have those eggs removed, taken into the lab, and for those eggs to be fertilised in the lab with partner or donor sperm.