Do you guys still remember how we evaluate the benefits of fertility treatment in I/GCSE Biology?

• 66yr old women became pregnant using donated sperm and eggs

• In I/GCSE Biology, Women are infertile = blocked oviducts or fallopian tubes.
• Eggs can’t travel from ovaries to womb, sperm can’t travel upwards to meat egg
• IVF is fertilisation in a test tube (test-tube baby)
• Step 1 – Women given injections of FSH – stimulates maturation of several eggs
• Step 2 – Eggs collected before release from ovary (ultrasound finds eggs, needle used to remove them)
• Step 3 – Eggs fertilised with sperm outside body
• Step 4 – Fertilised egg divide to form embryos
• Step 5 – Embryos (balls of cells) inserted into women’s womb

• Typical cost = £5000-£8000 + costs of consultation, drugs and tests
• In I/GCSE Biology, Risk – Multiple births (especially triplets). Abort one triplet, health risks for mother and unborn child

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