• Question: how do i make a baby

    Asked by corytooley to Alberto, Chris, Emmanuel, Jennie, Michelle on 15 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by slice.
    • Photo: Chris Whittle

      Chris Whittle answered on 15 Jun 2013:


      You can’t ‘make’ a baby! But you can either conceive a baby either naturally or by using IVF. IVF is bascially producing a test tube baby, and naturally conceiving is by sexual reproduction.

    • Photo: Alberto Lapedriza

      Alberto Lapedriza answered on 17 Jun 2013:


      If you cannot conceive a baby naturally there are two methods that can be used to “make” a baby in the lab: in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). In IVF doctors get egg cells and sperm from the mother and the father. Then, they put them together in a Petri dish (a plastic dish used in the lab), and they wait until the sperm fertilise the egg cell as it would happen normally in the woman’s reproductive tract. In the other method, ICSI, doctors inject using a needle a single sperm inside the egg cell, and induce the fertilisation. This method is used when sperm cannot naturally fertilise the egg cell or when the egg cell cannot be fertilised. Once the embryo is produced, doctors transfer it to the woman’s womb, and it develops like a normal baby.

    • Photo: Emmanuel Amabebe

      Emmanuel Amabebe answered on 18 Jun 2013:


      you can only conceive a baby i.e bear the baby in your womb. To do this you need an egg (ovum) from your ovaries and a sperm from a male. These two can combine to form a foetus that eventually grows into a baby in your womb until about 40 weeks when you are ready to be delivered of it.
      However, this process can be done artificially inside a testube hence, the name test tube baby.

    • Photo: Michelle Taylor

      Michelle Taylor answered on 20 Jun 2013:


      That depends – are you male or female? If you are a female you will have within you all of the eggs that you need to develop an embryo. This cannot happen by itself, it requires sperm from a male partner. Once an egg is fertilized by sperm, it can then begin to divide into many millions of cells and use the nutrients from your body to grow and develop into a baby within you. It takes a LOT of time and energy for an adult woman to produce a baby!

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