This week is National Infertility Awareness Week. It comes before Mother’s Day and is used as a chance to talk about an issue 15% of couples will have to deal with.
But it's also a great time to see how far we have come. The first IVF baby was born 41 years ago. In a FOX 32 Special Report, Sylvia Perez took a look at the advances in medicine since that happened.Her name was Louise Brown and the year was 1978. As the world's first test tube baby, she was considered a miracle child. Today, more than 8 million babies around the world have been born through IVF, and it's still considered one of the great triumphs of modern medicine.Dr.
There are better fertility-preserving surgeries for cancer patients. One of the biggest inroads, men who never thought they would be able to father a child now can. And the actual egg retrieval procedure is less demanding."We used to do major surgery for retrievals, and now it's a 10-minute procedure under IV sedation," Rinehart said.And when it comes to success rates, it used to be 5%, but not anymore.
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