Assisted conception

Assisted conception
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Any procedure which involves medical intervention to aid conception.

Assisted Conception - A set of techniques that medical professionals use to help couples achieve pregnancy after other surgical and hormonal methods have not been successful.

Somehow, with assisted conception, you can't help feeling your partner's pregnancy is a bit different - all expectant parents must be nervous, but after the intitial good news we were beside ourselves with worry.

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Assisted conception babes - providing support during pregnancy for couples who conceived through assisted conception.

Second trimester amniocentesis in assisted conception versus spontaneously conceived twins.
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Medically Assisted Conception: Conception brought about by noncoital conjunction of the gametes. This includes ART procedures and intrauterine, intracervical, and intravaginal insemination with semen of husband/partner or donor.

Assisted conception and the law in the United Kingdom. BMJ, Oct 2003; 327: 978 - 981.
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The sonographer will record your age, weight, previous history of chromosomal abnormality and whether your pregnancy was the result of assisted conception. These factors influence the results. The main part of the NT scan involves an ultrasound scan.

For natural, unassisted conception, a sturdy sperm cell will, after being deposited in the vagina, be able to swim through the cervix and into the fallopian tubes.

A technique of medically assisted conception in which mature oocytes are surgically removed from a woman's body and then reintroduced, together with sperm, through a catheter into the fallopian tubes, where it is hoped fertilization will take place.

A high proportion of couples attempt to resolve their problems using IVF and other methods of Assisted Conception.

Intrauterine insemination (IUI) in India has a long history and is much less "hi-tech" than some other methods of assisted conception.

See also: Pregnancy, Ovulation, Pregnant, Fertility, Conceive