fertility treatment
Help getting pregnant
Fertility treatment encompasses medical procedures and interventions aimed at helping people conceive when natural conception proves difficult.
Methods range from hormone therapies and intrauterine insemination to more complex assisted reproductive technologies like in vitro fertilization (IVF).
After two years of trying, they decided to pursue fertility treatment.
The term covers treatments for both men and women addressing various causes of infertility.
- IVFLaboratory-aided conception method
- egg retrievalSurgical collection of ova
- artificial inseminationMedical sperm introduction procedure
- surrogacyBearing child for others
- embryo transferPlacing fertilized egg inside
donor sperm · donor eggs · ovulation · test tube baby · cryopreservation · estrogen therapy · assisted reproduction · sperm donation · two week wait · follicle · myomectomy · hormone therapy · hysteroscopy · petri dish · laparoscopy · menstrual cycle · injections · hormone
- reproductionreproduction, birth, baby, egg, sperm
- parenthoodbaby, newborn, pregnancy, birth, childbirth
- treatmentstreatments, medication, medicine, therapies, surgery
- bioethicsbioethics, medical ethics, genetic engineering, beneficence, non-maleficence
- fertilityfecundity, infertility, conception, reproduction, ovulation
- reproductive healthpregnancy, infertility, childbirth, male infertility, ob-gyn
fertility treatmentcontraception
Pregnancy prevention measures
birth control · pregnancy prevention · vasectomy · tubal ligation · contraceptive
fertility treatmentnatural conception
Pregnancy achieved without fertility treatment
fertility treatmentsterilization
Complete elimination of microbes
vasectomy · tubal ligation · surgical sterilization · hysterectomy · castration