article_snippet: During IVF, an egg is surgically removed from a woman's ovaries and fertilised with sperm in a laboratory.
article_snippet: The fertilised egg, or embryo, is then returned and implanted back into the woman's womb to grow and develop.
article_snippet: Doctors then monitor the woman and around 34 to 38 hours before the woman eggs are due to be collected the woman will be given a final hormone injection that helps your eggs to mature.
article_snippet: For the egg collection a woman is sedated and a woman are collected using ultrasound as a guide.
article_snippet: A needle is inserted through the vagina and into each ovary.
article_snippet: her eggs are then collected through A needle.
article_snippet: her eggs are mixed with the woman's partner's sperm and after 16 to 20 hours her eggs are checked to see if any have been fertilised.
article_snippet: her eggs, embryos then continue to grow in the laboratory for one to five days before her eggs are transferred back into the womb.
article_snippet: Once her eggs have been collected the woman is given medication, including progesterone, to help prepare the lining of the womb to receive an embryo.
article_snippet: The embryos are transferred back into the womb.