What is in vitro fertilization? Is it a child grown in a test tube? IVF, also known in medical terminology as in vitro fertilization – embryo transfer technique, is a method of pregnancy assistance that involves removing eggs from the woman’s ovaries, allowing them to combine with the man’s sperm in a laboratory thermostat to form an early embryo, and then transferring it into the woman’s uterus. The thermostat simply functions as a fallopian tube in which the sperm and eggs meet and unite; the child is raised inside the mother’s body. Is an IVF baby artificially created? Is it a self-made child? IVF is an assisted conception technique that only helps the sperm and egg to meet at an early stage. Can I have twins with IVF? I want to conceive twins. During IVF treatment, 2-3 embryos are placed into the uterine cavity. The chance of conceiving twins is higher than natural, but only a small number of people conceive twins, most of them are singleton. Due to the high number of obstetric complications of twin births, the mother and child are at high risk and it is not the best choice. Does IVF produce more defective children than children delivered by natural conception? After more than 30 years of development, more than 4 million IVF babies have been born worldwide, and early IVF babies have also given birth to their own normal babies in natural pregnancies, and some of the larger scale follow-up surveys and studies have confirmed that there is no significant difference between IVF and naturally conceived babies in terms of birth defects and later physical and intellectual development.