The Treatments Available to Help Infertile Couples Have Children

The Treatments Available to Help Infertile Couples Have Children

For many people the purpose of marriage is procreation. However for

some people this is difficult. One in ten women have problems

conceiving children today in Britain and two million people are

infertile. Infertility is when a man or women is unable to conceive a

baby. There are many different reasons why some women can’t conceive

children naturally such as genetic reasons that have been passed down

though their genes. They might have caught a sexually transmitted

infection that has led to infertility. Or they might be physically

unable by being too old to bear a child themselves or have already

have gone though the menopause. Infertility can also occur when there

is a low sperm count.

However, there are many treatments available such as in – vitro

fertilisation (IVF) which is when an egg from the woman is fertilised

outside the womb using either her partners or a donor’s sperm and then

is replaced in the womb. Basically IVF involves collecting eggs from
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