They tried for six months to conceive, then sought advice on ovulation schedules and other techniques that would help them to do it the natural way. Four months of treatment in 1985 led to the first of four miscarriages. A second miscarriage 11 months later, then another ectopic pregnancy never shook her will. In vitro fertilization . The woman is prescribed a course of fertility drugs that stimulate her ovaries.
Doctors retrieve the eggs from the woman's ovaries using a fine needle.
The eggs are placed in a petri dish and combined with sperm and fertilized. The fertilized embryo is placed in the woman's uterus. An egg is surgically removed from the woman's ovary, combined with sperm, and injected immediately into the fallopian tube where fertilization takes place. Intracytoplasmic sperm injection . Using a microscopic glass needle, a single sperm is injected into a single egg.