Intrauterine insemination (artificial insemination) and in vitro
fertilization (IVF) can help treat many infertility problems,
including fibroids and endometriosis. Artificial insemination is
often highly effective for addressing infertility, and today the
most common form is intrauterine insemination (IUI), in which a
fertility doctor injects sperm directly into the woman’s uterus
in hopes of fertilizing an egg. The IUI form of artificial
insemination requires that the woman have working ovaries,
viable eggs and functional fallopian tubes (not blocked) so that
the egg may transfer to the uterus to be fertilized by the
injected sperm. It is much more effective when the sperm are
normal. In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a way of making a baby
by combining a man’s sperm and a woman’s egg outside the woman’s
body in a lab. Then, one or more fertilized eggs would be placed
in the woman’s uterus with hopes that these embryos would
implant in the lining of the uterus and develop into full-term
infants. At first, IVF