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Originally posted by 33girl
Here's a wild idea.
What if the guy wants the kid and the woman doesn't - could they take the fertilized egg out of the pregnant woman and put it in a surrogate (found and paid for by the guy of course)? Would that work?
I'm serious - is this medically possible?
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For a woman who is even willing to "donate" her eggs to her "man" to implant into a surrogate here is the process:
The woman is injected with super-ovulatory drugs. Some of the drugs are contraceptive in nature, so implantation is of "lost eggs" is nearly impossible.
Then when it is time for "harvesting the eggs", the ovary is "teased" surgically to pull a maximum of 12 eggs out of a follicle--and that depends on age and health of the woman and this occurs before the ovulation track.
Immediately, like within minutes, the eggs MUST be fertilized with the man's sperm. Human oocytes are VERY, VERY fragile and are difficult to maintain in liquid nitrogen alone. It will be a matter of years--but not that long with that process will change.
Then within 24-72 hours, embryogenesis occurs. I think that is is at least the blastocyst stage that the embryo is implanted into a pseudo-pregnant (primed up female) surrogate. At least 3-5 embryos are implanted at similar stages. They used to put a ton of embryos into the woman and found that it made no difference in treatment.
And that is how in vitro is done. Pricey if it doesn't take. At least $5K for the super-ovulatory treatment--one time injection... $25K+ per session of harvesting, and another $50K+++ for implantation per session...
The problem of miscarrying... Priceless...
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