– How does IVF work?
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IVF starts with medication given to the egg donor or mother to make their body create eggs. When the eggs are ready, they collect them with a small surgery. They take mature eggs and generally inject them with sperm. The eggs that fertilize become embryos that grow over the next 3-5 days. At that point they are either frozen or implanted, and they may take some cells from the embryos to do genetic testing as well.
For a frozen embryo, they give the surrogate or mother medication to get their body ready to receive the embryo. They confirm everything is ready with testing, and then defrost and transfer the embryo directly. Pregnancy can be confirmed in the next 7-10 days usually.
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