Coupled with the influence of some traditional ideas, many people think that having children is not only for their own sake, but also a continuation of a family blood line. If a couple hasn't had children for many years after marriage, even if no one dares to point fingers to their faces, they will inevitably be talked about behind their backs. The couple will inevitably feel inferior, and even often feel guilty and bear great psychological pressure.

Kobayashi (pseudonym) is such an example. As a post-90s generation, her thoughts are still relatively avant-garde. She has been married to her husband for five years and has never had children. At first, the couple didn't take it seriously, but they couldn't stand the urge of their families and went to the hospital for an examination. However, Kobayashi was found to have a blocked fallopian tube and could not conceive naturally.

Now, like a bolt from the blue, Kobayashi seems to have lost the whole world at once. Even with her husband's comfort, Kobayashi still feels guilty, especially when walking on the road, seeing pregnant mothers walking with their stomachs and children laughing and playing downstairs. Kobayashi's eyes unconsciously show envy.

Even under various psychological pressures, Kobayashi once proposed to divorce her husband. After being sternly rejected by her husband, Kobayashi breathed a sigh of relief and made up his mind to have children. Because it is impossible to conceive naturally, she adopted artificial insemination. Since then, Kobayashi has embarked on a difficult "test tube road".

However, doing IVF is not as simple as imagined, and the links are more complicated and tortuous. If you make any mistakes, you must start from scratch. Take the egg as an example. Kobayashi has gone through 16 times.

On the cold surgical bed, Kobayashi needs to open his legs like a gynecological examination. After opening the birth canal with instruments, the doctor took out an ovum taking needle about 2mm thick and 30cm long. This needle needs to be inserted into Kobayashi's body, penetrate the cortex and uterus, and reach the inside of the ovary. Then, under the adjustment of the doctor, take out a complete follicle and pull it out again.

Moreover, in order to ensure the quality of follicles, at the doctor's suggestion, Kobayashi only used Demerol instead of anesthesia, and the analgesic effect was not good. Every time such a thick egg needle enters the body, she will tremble involuntarily.

And this is just the first step of IVF.

Fortunately, although one of the two implanted embryos was lost, Kobayashi and her husband finally had a lovely daughter after hospitalization and careful nursing.

Being pregnant and having children can be said to be the dream of most women, and it is also a very happy thing to have children of their own. However, during this period, women need to make great efforts and hardships, especially those women who can't get pregnant naturally. Although medicine is now developed enough to take some auxiliary means to help pregnancy, such as IVF, the process of doing IVF is also a test and torture.

Being an IVF requires not only physical discomfort, but also psychological suffering. Because IVF is not 100% successful, many families rent it next to the hospital and spend hundreds of thousands, but they still can't get pregnant. The sadness is self-evident.

So, what tests do you need to go through to do IVF?

Before IVF, both husband and wife need to have a comprehensive physical examination, so that doctors can know the basic situation, medical history, previous visits and treatment of patients. Moreover, it is necessary to improve various tests before IVF, including blood test, endocrine hormone test and tubal permeability test. When all the test results are normal, the patient-specific medical records of IVF can be established, and then the core treatment process can be entered.

Generally speaking, normal women can only ovulate one egg a month, but not all eggs can be successfully conceived.

Therefore, the general doctor will formulate a professional ovulation plan according to the actual situation of the patient. After the hormone level and ultrasound examination, when the conditions are right, he began to superovulate in order to take out multiple eggs for screening.

Egg retrieval needs to be done in the operating room. Doctors take eggs by taking needles and taking eggs under injection of analgesic drugs or intravenous anesthesia. The man needs to take semen the same day. Although there is general anesthesia, women still feel uncomfortable, and even have obvious pain after taking eggs.

The collected eggs will be classified according to the degree of maturity and put into the culture medium for 4-30 hours until they are completely mature. Sperm and egg freely combine after 18 hours.

After the egg is taken out, the doctor will select high-quality embryos for transplantation according to the actual situation of the patient, and generally two or three embryos will be transplanted.

First, eggs and sperm combine in a simulated uterine environment to form fertilized eggs, and then embryos are transplanted into women.

Due to the influence of ovulation induction drugs and surgical procedures, patients receiving IVF cannot produce enough progesterone to support embryo implantation and growth, so progesterone drugs are needed to support pregnancy protection.

After successful embryo transfer, it does not mean that pregnancy will be successful, and it is unknown whether the embryo can successfully "settle down" in the uterus.

Therefore, after embryo transfer 14 days, the doctor will arrange for the woman to take blood tests for HCG (chorionic gonadotropin) and morning urine to determine whether she is pregnant.

And after 28 days of pregnancy, the number of fetuses and the implantation site of embryos will be checked by B-ultrasound. The whole process takes about 3 months.

Successfully passing these six tests means that the woman is really pregnant with a baby and is about to become a mother. But in this process, as long as one step goes wrong, it means failure, which is why it is so difficult for some women to get pregnant.

The bitterness of being a test-tube baby and being a mother can only be deeply understood if you have really experienced it. May every mother who makes test tubes be treated gently by years, and may every woman get pregnant smoothly.