I was very saddened to hear about the death of Sir Robert Edwards who was one of the two pioneers of test tube babies. He was involved with such a great advancement in science and he helped the lives of so many people.
Sir Robert Edwards along with Dr Patrick Steptoe had been trying to find a solution for infertile women since 1966 and the breakthrough came on July 25, 1978 when Louise Brown was born. She was the first ever successful test tube baby. Lesley Brown (Louise’s mother) was successful because although Edwards and Steptoe were able to fertilise the eggs of many women outside the body, the problem came once the egg was implanted back into the uterus and Louise was the first embryo to survive more than a couple of weeks.
The advanced method now includes physical and laboratory examinations that include a test for the sperm count of the male partner and a pelvic examination, cervical culturing, and staining of cervical secretions for the presence of Chlamydia for the female partner. Once these tests are completed, fertility drugs are administered to the woman to stimulate her ovarian follicles to produce as many healthy eggs as possible. This is necessary because a single fertilized egg or pre-embryo has only a small chance of survival. Eggs are retrieved 27 to 36 hours by a specific stimulation technique and as many eggs as possible are obtained per single retrieval attempt. The harvested eggs are inseminated by a sample of semen that contains sperm of good quality
There are many ethical debates about in-vitro fertilisation, the main issue being whether doctors have the right to interfere with nature and whether artificial fertilisation will be bad for the embryo. If the embryo was not normal due to natural causes, would they be able to blame the doctors or would they have to accept nature? When does life begin? If human life begins at conception, are doctors killing potential humans when they discard fertilized eggs? (Doctors may remove several eggs from the woman and may discard some that have been fertilized.)
However despite these ethnical issues, in-vitro fertilisation has provided children for millions of people who are infertile, and Sir Robert Edwards was one of the main scientist in this advancement.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-22091873
http://pedsinreview.aappublications.org/content/20/8/e28.full
My Name is Susan Nanaya, from France, i want to share my testimony to the general public on how Dr Chale used his herbal medicine to helped me conceive and give birth to my baby boy last week, my doctor told me i had blockage in my fallopian tube, which you all know that woman with that can never get pregnanat, for more than 10 years in marriage i had no child of my own, so i came across different testimony of people sharing the goodness of Dr chale, who helped cure Autism, fibriod, dybeties, Molluscum contagiosum, Folliculitis, Dermatitis, brought back a woman's lost husband, help restore lost job,help a man got visa of his choice,help cured a woman who had endometriosis, but i saw a testimony who had infertility problem but finally became a mother now with his help, immediately i Dr chale who i have been reading about his work. i told him i had blockage in my fallopian tube, Dr chale told me the only solution to my problem is his natural herbal medicine which he will prepare and told me how much to get it to my door step, i thought he was going to take my money, but then i had courage cause if he can help me why not give him a chance, which i did and purchased his herbs and i received it in 48 hours after he prepared it at my door step, and after taking the herbs as instructed, and told me when to have sex with my husband which i did, but to my greatest surprise after two weeks i became pregnant which was like MAGIC, i went to my doctor for pregnancy test and came out positive, now i am a mother just the same way others had shared theirs. Dr chale natural herbs works like magic, i encourage every woman who have infertility issues to contact him E-mail: (chalesolution@yahoo.com) or (chalesolution@gmail.com), to share yours now.
ReplyDelete