In Vitro Fertilization Answers And Expert Advice Now Available At YourInvitrofertilizationGuide.com

Online, May 9, 2011 (Newswire.com) - The issue of infertility among couples affects about 6 million people in the United States alone.
According to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, roughly 9% of the American reproductive age population, or about 5.3 million Americans, suffer from this condition. Thanks to new and advanced reproductive technologies, the infertility problem plaguing women does not make having a family of their own an impossible feat.

The in vitro fertilization or IVF technique is an often-used last resort for infertile couples trying to conceive. In a nutshell, the process requires eggs retrieved from a female to be combined with the sperm retrieved from a male outside the living body from which they came. With in vitro fertilization, what normally and naturally takes place inside a woman's body is now forced to take place inside an artificial medium - specifically "in vitro," which literally means a glass tube or a petri dish.

YourInvitrofertilizationGuide.com is a website that gives a closer look at in vitro fertilization. The website relates that it was on July 25th, 1978, when the first "test tube baby", Louise Brown was successfully born at Oldham General Hospital in Greater Manchester, UK. Thereafter, over 50,000 babies were born using in vitro fertilization in the US alone, and over 250,000 world-wide. For his outstanding research and development in the field of reproductive techniques, Dr. Robert Edwards was given the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2010.

According to YourInvitrofertilizationGuide.com, a standard IFV cycle - where the fertilized egg is placed into the woman's uterus - costs anywhere from $12,500 in the US to $4,000 in Japan or Ireland. The cost of a live birth, on the other hand, is around $42,000 in the US, $40,000 in the United Kingdom and $25,000 in Japan or Scandinavia. Given the high costs involved in this procedure, less than 5% of infertile couples choose to use it.

YourInvitrofertilizationGuide.com notes that many studies investigating possible risks of in vitro fertilization show that there is little, if any, difference between the children conceived using this methods, and the ones conceived naturally. This process, although gaining more and more popularity in recent years, is a subject of heated debate between science experts and ethics or religion advocates.

Couples considering in vitro fertilization should visit http://www.yourinvitrofertilizationguide.com/ and discover the advanced method that has helped women fulfill their dreams of becoming mothers.