Male Pregnancy Now Possible?

Human reproduction is one of processes that are widely expanded by modern science beyond its normal activity. Just like in the year 1978 when the first test tube baby was introduced. This event turned out successful that, what was then known as an experiment, had became the pioneer of fertility treatment. It is somehow astonishing to realize that babies can actually be made outside the human body. But there is a more shocking method than this, an increasingly complicated one that turns gestation into a whole new level, making it not only applicable to women but to men as well.

Male pregnancy is kind of like a twisted case since only females are capable of being pregnant. However, scientists and physicians from RYT Hospital have been working on methods of making male impregnation possible. They used a method called vitro fertilization (IVF), the same one used on test tube babies.

Before going further, let us familiarize what vitro fertilization is. Vitro Fertilization (IVF) technique is the usual treatment recommended for women with defective fallopian tubes and those with out fallopian tubes. A faulty or absent fallopian tube don't allow eggs to travel from the ovary to the uterus, so with IVF this process is viable. The technique involves recovering the eggs from the mother and mixing it up in the lab with the sperm of the father. The embryo resulting from this mixture will then be placed back into the mother's uterus, allowing it to develop normally until delivery.

RYT hospital took the function of IVF farther than its usual purpose. They conducted an experiment using IVF to make pregnancy feasible to men. The first male subject, who volunteered to attempt this procedure, is a Taiwanese-born man named Mr. Lee Mingwei. Attending Physician and Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Reproductive Medicine, Dr. Simone Lowell of RYT Hospital-Dwayne Medical Center, did the research for this clinical procedure.