In Vitro Fertilisation is a technique which enables people with fertility problems to have a child. During the process, the egg is removed from the body, fertilised with sperm in a lab, and then returned to the womb to grow.

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Taken from ‘The Story of Fertility’ (2016).

Alex Jones and her husband Charlie got married in 2015 and started trying for a baby. Alex was always reading headlines urging women not to delay motherhood and, at 38, she was worried she might be one of the 3.5 million people in the UK who struggle to conceive. She investigates what pioneering science is doing to help people struggling to become pregnant, and she travels the world to see the cutting-edge techniques that could revolutionise fertility treatment in the future and give people new hope of having children.

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