Chapter 6 Local Babies, Global Science

1. The main issue in this chapter is efficacy, whether test tube baby making in Egypt is as successful as many IVF providers say it is and how their claims of efficacy affect IVF patients.

2. Their where many clinics making extraordinary efficacy claims that were not always true. It was mainly just selling the idea of hope to its patients.

3. Another major factor affecting IVF success rates involves characteristics of the IVF process, particularly the number of embryos transferred to a woman's body.

4. A third issues affecting efficacy has to do with repetition, which is really the need to repeat IVF or ICSI procedures several times before achieving a successful pregnancy.

5. A fourth factor has to do with the way in which IVF programs present their success rates too.

6. The Egyptian centers usually report the percentage of resulting pregnancies too, which can sway the actual count due to most not being clinically confirmed.

7. Over all the success rat are affected by the very quality of care at each IVF center.

8. Most Egyptian IVF providers are engaged in a deceptive "game of inflation" whereby lower than expected success rates are massaged, juggled, twisted, reshaped, pr simply lied about in order to appear much better to potential patients.

9. The critique of rate inflation described here is an internal among Egyptian IVF providers at well established centers.

10. Chapter 7 Local Babies, Global Science

10.1. This chapter opens ups discussing one of Dr. Yehia's most heard about patient, his movie star patient. She was also one of the only patients that was openly critical of her experience at Nozha hospital.

10.2. she was here for the same reasons as the other women, she also feels that same burrden of not being able to produce a child. She feels "socially infertile"

10.3. What was seen at this time was that Egyptian women in happier marriages, accepting the physical risks of new reproductive technologies is less patriarchal bargain than an act of connubial love and commitment.

10.4. Another argument that was brought up in this chapter was about the local specificity of bodily conceptions, complaints, concerns, and lived experiences,

10.5. It is important to note that the physical risk of the new reproductive technologies are not necessarily experienced nor perceived in the same way around the globe.

10.6. Not only is it the females problem with not being able to reproduce but also their have been male orientated issues such as irregularities in the pH of the seminal fluid, poor sperm motility, low sperm count and etc.

10.7. The use of Hormonal agents was common as well the use of Superfact and peergonal or buserelin acetate. this drugs were uses to help stop hormone agonist that shuts down the boys natural process of ovulation so that superovulation can be artistically achieved.

10.8. Most did have side effects some were temporary and bearable, most emphasized the suffering they had endured form the hormonal medications.

10.9. other common side effects were weight gain, abdominal cramping and bloating, nausea and vomiting as well as profound tiredness and lethargy. some could go as fair as death too.