The Wonderful story of IVF at 40, All you need to know as IVF clocks 40 on wednesday 25 July. How Louise Brown birth has changed the world. With the success of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) - and there's more to come.

IVF means In vitro fertilisation.

IVF has become the final solution for most fertility problems, moving from tubal disease to male factor, idiopathic subfertility, endometriosis, advanced maternal age , and anovulation not responding to ovulation.

IVF is an assisted reproduction technology.

History of IVF

A Transient biochemical pregnancy was reported by Australian Foxton School researchers in 1953.

In 1977, Steptoe and Edwards successfully carried out a pioneering conception which resulted in the birth of the world's first baby to be conceived by IVF, Louise Brown on 25 July 1978,



Ian Johnston and Alex Lopata were responsible for Australia's first baby conceived by IVF.

The first claim of IVF in Nigeria was in 17th of March, 1989 pioneered by Professors Osato Giwa Osagie and Oladapo Ashiru was conceived via in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer(IVF-ET).

First known IVF experiment in Nigeria was done by Dr. Ibrahim Wada, called Hannatu’s birth on February 11 1998.

At the time of Louise's birth. "It was viewed with absolute suspicion," says Professor Peter Braude, head of the Department of Women's Heath at King's College London. "If you talk to people today about human reproductive cloning, the feeling you get that it is playing God is just how it was in 1978 with IVF"
More than eight million IVF babies have been born since louise brown’s birth

IVF was far more demanding for patients than it is today said Daniel Raby who recalls. "We were in beds in ranks, six of us in each of the Portakabins. They'd come round and wake us up in the middle of the night and we'd all troop off and we had to wee in a bottle so they could monitor our hormones. It did help us all to bond with one another."(guardian)

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Today, IVF is a far more streamlined process. Women are treated as day patients, and there are no three-hourly urine collections, no hours of crouching after egg collection. Freezing allows spare embryos to be stored for future use and the advent of intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), where sperm are injected directly into the egg, has meant that male fertility problems can be treated too. Donor eggs, sperm and embryos can all be used to help couples with more complex fertility problems, and the multiple birth rate, which has been the biggest health risk from IVF, is coming down.

NEW ADVANCES IN IVF

It has been reported that IVF baby is to be screened using a procedure that can read every letter of the human genome had been born.

The cost of IVF could be cut what could mark the start of a "new era" in IVF.

IS been 40 years since Louise Brown's birth, IVF has become a global money-making business producing very healthy profits, and there are hundreds of centres offering treatment around the world.

Over 8 million IVF babies have been born around the world since Louise Brown's birth

it is estimated that about 11,000 test tube babies have been delivered in Nigeria since inception (1989) with an average turn over rate of about 1000 babies yearly and average success rates have risen to around 25%. 

 



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