Author - ivfbabble

Gestational surrogacy

This is where a woman acts as a surrogate to carry the pregnancy, but she is not genetically related to the baby. The egg is from the prospective mother or a donor. The...

Egg, sperm, embryo freezing

Who is freezing for? There are so many reasons to want to freeze your eggs, sperm or embryos. Perhaps you haven’t yet met the right partner, you are pursuing a...

Donor Sperm

For many couples with infertility, there can be a problem with the sperm – it may be faulty or there is not enough of it. So donated sperm is used instead for IVF. Or...

What is IVF?

In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a procedure where an egg or eggs are fertilised outside the woman’s body The eggs are surgically removed and fertilised in a laboratory...