IUI vs IVF : Which fertility Treatment is Right For You?
If you’re thinking about getting an infertility treatment, you might have come across the treatments Intrauterine Insemination or IUI and In-vitro Fertilisation or IVF. Both these treatments are used by fertility doctors depending upon what is the cause of infertility. Before we understand the IUI vs IVF it is important to know what these treatments are and how they are different from each other. For a pregnancy to happen, the ovum or the female’s egg that is released from the ovaries needs to fertilize with the male sperm in the fallopian tube of the female reproductive tract to produce an embryo which implants in the uterine lining to form a pregnancy. When this happens naturally, the male sperm has to travel from the vagina to the fallopian tube and fertilize with an ovum to form a viable pregnancy. IUI involves putting the sperm into the woman’s uterus with the help of a soft catheter. This is synced with the ovulation of the woman to help improve the ...