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The dawn of New Year was a red-letter day for New Life Fertility and IVF Centre at B M Hospital, Nanganallur, as the hospital had arranged a get-together of 21 test-tube babies which were born in this hospital so far since its inception in 2003.         Under the dynamic management of reproductive medicine specialist Dr Vasundra Thiagarajan, managing director and DGO of the New Life Fertility and IVF Centre was the brain-child of the celebration.         Not stopping with this, the hospital also, as part of the celebration and as a New Year gesture, saw the undertaking of a noble project involving distribution of free sarees to destitute women by New Life Fertility and Inner Wheel Club of Nanganallur.         President of Madras Flying Club Rotarian Jacob Selvaraj was the chief guest on the occasion.

Children (Test Tube Babies) born in IVF Centre taking part in the get-together.

        Firstly, it is called IVI - Intrauterine insemination or artificial insemination. In this case motile spermatozoa of the husband is injected into the womb of the wife. And many bore children through this procedure.

        Secondly, IVF & ET method involves taking of the sperm and the wife's egg by scan and then copulated and preserved in incubator for two days and embryo is grown in the wife's womb.

        ICSI is another method (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection). In men if there is just one or two spermatazoa they are separated and treated and injected into the womb.

        In surrogate, a woman cannot give birth to a child grows the eggs in another woman's womb. In this case the egg of the mother and the sperm of the father are clubbed and grown in another woman's womb who helps as a surrogate mother.

        In the donor egg programme where certain mothers are unable to bear a child due to non-growth of egg or absence of the same, eggs are donated by other women (with their permission) and test tube baby is got.