Fertility industry touts cheaper alternative to IVF
by Carder
With IVM, we’re doing the retrieval when the follicles and eggs are immature — so they’re very tiny. We mature them in a petri dish under special culture conditions, which takes about 48 hours, and then we fertilize them. The patient undergoes a short, three-day course of hormone injections followed by hormone supplementation to prepare the uterine lining for implantation.
From there out, the process is just like IVF, but without additional injections.
~ Jesse Hade, M.D., medical director at Neway Fertility in New York City describing a more affordable fertility treatment, IVM (In-Vitro Maturation), Fit Pregnancy, November 28
Dec.01, 2014 6:00 am |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Infertility is a sign of something WRONG. I wish instead of FORCING a woman’s body to get pregnant doctors would work with women’s bodies to discover the underlying reason a woman isn’t conceiving. There is a REASON her body is not getting pregnant. A healthy body of fertile age should be able to conceive and carry a child and if woman can’t do that she doesn’t need all these hormone injections and her eggs tossed into a petri dish–she needs someone to discover what her body is trying to say. Her body is trying to say something but the medical profession aren’t very good at actually LISTENING.
As in all cases, I worry about the integrity of the DNA in the oocyte.
Sidney: Check these out. Better ways exist. As both articles say fertility care, not fertility control.
http://theguidingstarproject.com/napro-technology-hope-for-women-struggling-with-infertility/
http://naprotechnology.com/
Instead of manipulating nature, we should be working with nature. Unethical manipulation often backfires in some way. Trust in almighty God that He knows best. Human ova, sperm, embryos, organs, children, etc. are not commodities and should not be treated as such.
Interestingly enough, this cheaper alternative still costs $6,600 to $7,500 a cycle. Cheaper than IVF, but still pretty expensive.