Thinking about IVF? Know everything couples should know about in vitro fertilisation, including the process, success rates, ...

IVF stands for in vitro fertilization, which is the process of fertilizing an egg with sperm in a medical lab and then implanting the resulting embryo into someone's uterus, with the hope it will ...

Once the egg leaves the ovary, there's only a short window — less than 24 hours — for fertilization to happen. Meanwhile, a lot has been happening in the uterus.

DAY 5 Entering the uterus Four days after fertilization, the fertilized egg has become a blastocyst — a bundle of cells with certain structures. Some will become the placenta, and others the embryo.

A year later, the couple sought out in vitro fertilization for a second time. Again, doctors transferred two embryos into Miranda's uterus, and, just six weeks into the pregnancy, doctors told the ...

One supporter of in vitro fertilization, Dr. Howard W. Jones Jr., in 1989 called a fertilized egg that isn’t implanted in the wall of a uterus “a special bit of humanity” that nevertheless ...

Changes in the thickness of the uterus lining or "endometrium" during in vitro fertilization predict the likelihood of pregnancy, according to a report in the journal Fertility and Sterility.

Step 2: Collect the sperm Because much of the sperm-production part of conception takes part outside the body, getting sperm for IVF is less medically involved than retrieving the eggs.