Baylor's 1996 rate was 38 percent. The boost in the number of couples taking home IVF babies can be credited to improved technology. The eggs were harvested through an abdominal incision, then inserted back into the uterus. These days the woman is first put on infertility drugs to stop the ovarian cycle. A second set of drugs is then given to stimulate the ovaries and make eggs.
Doctors then insert a needle into the vagina and ovaries and remove as many eggs as possible.
The eggs are then fertilized with the man's sperm outside the body. Two days later the embryos are put back into the uterus. This enables men who suffer from severe cases of sperm dysfunction to still have children. Then we insert one sperm into each egg. Carson believes the IVF process will continue to grow through new technology and techniques.