fertility treatments
Help getting pregnant
Fertility treatments are medical interventions to help people conceive children.
They range from hormone medications that stimulate ovulation to procedures like intrauterine insemination and in vitro fertilization (IVF).
The term covers treatments for various causes of infertility in both women and men: After two years of trying, they started fertility treatments.
The process is often physically and emotionally demanding, and frequently expensive.
- surrogacyBearing child for others
- egg donorProvider of reproductive cells
- embryo transferPlacing fertilized egg inside
- frozen embryosPreserved early-stage fertilized cells
- aromatase inhibitorsEnzyme-blocking hormonal medications
artificial insemination · hysteroscopy · donor sperm · sperm count · myomectomy · laparoscopy · IVF · egg retrieval · ovulation · two week wait · injections · womb · hormone therapy · gynecology · waiting · biological clock · estrogen · twins
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- women's healthgynecologist, gynecology, menstruation, OB-GYN, period
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- twinstwins, identical, fraternal, monozygotic, dizygotic
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Pregnancy prevention measures
birth control · contraceptives · sterilization · vasectomy · tubal ligation
fertility treatmentsnatural conception
Pregnancy achieved without fertility treatment
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