A Test tube - baby

Yes, I have seen one before. She's just five years and beautiful too. She's so intelligent that one would think she's older than her age or maybe possesses some divine gifts.

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when I first heard about test-tube baby, I was 1 was 14 years old. For a long time, I kept wondering wether a baby had spent nine months in a test tube rather than in his mother's womb. Lol. Well, let me make it clearer for the non scientists.

In-vitro fertilization is simply the process of conceiving a child by mixing the sex gametes of both parents externally. It's nothing short of a miracle to be able to give couples who have been long suffering from infertility a new hope by providing an excellent option to be called parents just like their peers.

Children born through assisted reproductive technique are popularly but figuratively called "test-tube babies".

Now the test-tube is a symbol of science, a very important apparatus in a science lab and scientific processes. since these babies are brought to life through scientific knowledge, hence the name.

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Assisted Reproductive Technique ( ART) at the time of it's inception, had been widely criticised by alot of religious zealots all over the world. But the scientists behind ART never thought themselves God niether do they claim to give children. ART only makes the process of conception more easier for couples who had been finding it difficult to have a child after all possible methods have failed.

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The problem could be due to an obstruction in the fallopian tube of the woman where fertilization takes place. For the male, it could be due to the inability to produce adequate male gametes or production of low quality gametes.

The key process involves the injection of the sperms over the eggs contained in a petri-dish ( test-tubes are not even basically involved). The mixture is then returned into the female's body and everything else occur occur naturally till nine months time. The medical scientists never had a hand in the moulding of the face, heart, limbs and other internal organs.

The beauty about ART is that it often times leads to multiple births, 70 percent of the time. This is because doctors are likely to return two to five developing humans ( embryos) into the woman's body just so that the probability of delivery is improved. So before the completion of nine months, a couple are expected to be making preparations for twins, triplets or even quadruplets 😁

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The first test-tube baby was born successfully in 1978 and currently there are about 6 millions individuals that have been brought to the world through Assisted Reproductive Technique, even though it could be a quite expensive.

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