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    This document provides information on in vitro fertilization (IVF) and how to increase the chances of success. It recommends stopping smoking, losing weight, taking folic acid, reducing stress through aromatherapy or yoga. IVF can help with male factor infertility from smoking or low sperm counts, and female issues like blocked fallopian tubes or ovulation problems. It then describes the basic IVF process, risks, success rates, and includes a testimonial about a couple who succeeded with IVF after fertility treatments failed.

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    This document provides information on in vitro fertilization (IVF) and how to increase the chances of success. It recommends stopping smoking, losing weight, taking folic acid, reducing stress through aromatherapy or yoga. IVF can help with male factor infertility from smoking or low sperm counts, and female issues like blocked fallopian tubes or ovulation problems. It then describes the basic IVF process, risks, success rates, and includes a testimonial about a couple who succeeded with IVF after fertility treatments failed.

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    This document provides information on in vitro fertilization (IVF) and how to increase the chances of success. It recommends stopping smoking, losing weight, taking folic acid, reducing stress through aromatherapy or yoga. IVF can help with male factor infertility from smoking or low sperm counts, and female issues like blocked fallopian tubes or ovulation problems. It then describes the basic IVF process, risks, success rates, and includes a testimonial about a couple who succeeded with IVF after fertility treatments failed.

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    This document provides information on in vitro fertilization (IVF) and how to increase the chances of success. It recommends stopping smoking, losing weight, taking folic acid, reducing stress through aromatherapy or yoga. IVF can help with male factor infertility from smoking or low sperm counts, and female issues like blocked fallopian tubes or ovulation problems. It then describes the basic IVF process, risks, success rates, and includes a testimonial about a couple who succeeded with IVF after fertility treatments failed.

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    Increase your chances of

    IVF working

    Stuff you can do

    Stop smoking.

    Lose weight

    Eat folic acid from tablets or corn flakes.

    Having unprotected sex


    does not make you cool

    Having unprotected sex


    makes you prone to sickness.

    Make sure there is an


    absence of stress in your
    life.

    You could try aromatherapy or yoga.

    Helps so many illnesses

    IVF helps men who have a


    low sperm count (smoking),
    poor sperm mobility or lifespan.

    It helps women who have egg


    release problems, fallopian
    tube blockages.

    The other third of infertility is


    for unknown causes. IVF
    helps people with these unknown causes.

    Thinking about IVF?

    References
    http://www.hfea.gov.uk/1316.html
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
    talking_point/forum/948984.stm
    http://www.askamum.co.uk/Trying-toconceive/Search-Results/Fertility/How-toimprove-your-chances-of-IVF-success/

    This leaflet is brought to you by


    Adisa Nicholson
    Tel: 0800-000-000

    Statistics

    Its popular

    11,268 people in 2005


    had been born as a result
    of IVF.

    IVF helps people who


    have difficulty getting
    pregnant get pregnant.
    IVF has a 1 out of 5
    (disputable) chance of
    success so but it does
    work.
    In vitro fertilization or
    IVF is a technological
    advancement in the
    medical arena in response to the alarming
    rate of infertility in developed countries. The
    concept was pioneered
    by Patrick Steptoe and
    Dr. Robert Edwards, a
    Cambridge physiologist,
    late in the 1960s and
    about ten years later, the
    first IVF baby was delivered in the UK.

    How does it work

    In simple terms, a doctor inserts sperm


    into an egg with a microscope and a
    needle very carefully and then that fertilized egg ends up going inside the
    woman who can then naturally give
    birth.

    Is that safe?

    Yes, its completely safe and does not


    cause babies to be born with defects.

    days before the embryo is then reinserted or implanted in the woman's


    uterine cavity through a sort of plastic
    tube.

    Testimonial

    Angela Nelis of Lexington spent three years


    going through
    fertility treatments before a chance meeting
    by her husband
    changed her fate.

    How We Help

    Angela and George

    We help you by letting you know the


    facts about IVF.

    How does it really work?

    were counselled by Dr. Whitman-Elia that


    the advanced therapy of in-vitro fertilization
    could still give them hope

    The process of in vitro fertilization,


    essentially, involves the use of a
    laparoscope; a telescope, which can be
    inserted into a woman's abdomen under anesthetic conditions, to remove
    eggs from the woman's ovary at a period just before the time it would naturally be released (ovulated). The harvested egg is then mixed with the
    washed and diluted male sperm in a
    glass dish. If fertilization occurs between the egg and the sperm, the resultant embryo is allowed to develop in
    the laboratory, usually for two to three

    and lead to a live birth.


    I was just worn out physically and emotionally. We had been through four years of treatment and although I
    fully trusted Dr. Whitman-Elia, I didnt
    know if I could go through another treatment
    process.
    Ten months later the couple was ready.
    They confidently put their dreams in the
    hands of Dr. Gail Whitman-Elia. The resulting in-vitro procedure was a
    success and Angela gave birth to twins, a boy
    Dylan and girl Lauren.

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