Fertility Treatment in India

In vitro fertilisation (IVF)
 Eggs are removed from the ovaries and fertilised with sperm in a laboratory dish before being placed in the woman’s womb. IVF literally means ‘fertilisation in glass’, giving us the familiar term ‘test tube baby’.

Intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
 ICSI involves injecting a single sperm directly into an egg in order to fertilise it. The fertilised egg (embryo) is then transferred to the woman’s womb.

Intrauterine insemination (IUI)
Before fertility treatment, the best quality sperm are selected. They are then inserted into the womb at the woman’s most fertile time, when an ovary releases an egg (ovulation).

Donor insemination (DI)
 Sperm that has been screened for sexually transmitted diseases and some genetic disorders from a donor is used to fertilise a patient’s egg. DI is IUI (intrauterine insemination) with donor sperm.

Gamete intra-fallopian transfer (GIFT)
Eggs are removed from the ovaries and the healthiest are selected and placed together with sperm in the woman’s fallopian tubes. Fertilisation therefore takes place in the body, as it would if conception had occurred naturally.

In vitro maturation (IVM)
Eggs are removed from the ovaries and are collected when they are still immature. They are then matured in the laboratory before being fertilised. This means that the woman does not need to take as many drugs before the eggs can be collected as she might if using conventional IVF, when mature eggs are collected.

Surrogacy
 Surrogacy is when another woman carries and gives birth to a baby for you.