World IVF Day: From Isha Ambani to Farah Khan, 5 Indian celebs who welcomed babies through IVF

World IVF Day or World Embryologist Day is celebrated every year on 25th July to commemorate the birth of the world's first test tube baby, Louise Brown, in 1978. The day marks an important event highlighting the advancements made in fertility medicine. If you are struggling with infertility, understand you aren't the only one! Let's delve deeper into what is IVF and learn more about 5 celebrity couples who proudly expanded their families and welcomed IVF babies.

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What is IVF?

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In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is a complex set of medical procedures that involve fertilizing an egg with sperm in a laboratory. IVF is actually one of the most popular and widely known forms of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) that helps infertile couples or individuals with fertilization, embryo development, and implantation so that they can get pregnant.

IVF procedure entails using a combination of medicines to induce numerous eggs, mature and ready for fertilization, from a woman's ovaries, followed by their fertilization with sperm in a controlled setting. The final step involves putting the resultant fertilized eggs or embryos inside the uterus.

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Indian celeb couples who welcomed IVF babies

1) Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani

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Nita and Mukesh Ambani welcomed their children Isha and Akash Ambani through IVF treatment after she was having trouble conceiving. In an interview, Nita shared how a doctor told her that she would never be able to give birth at the age of 23. It was then the couple chose the IVF route to welcome their twins.

2) Farah Khan and Shirish Kunder

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In 2008, Farah Khan and her husband Shirish Kunder embraced IVF technology to expand their family and became the proud parents of their triplets. One of the very first Bollywood celebs to be open about her struggles to conceive naturally, Farah said, ¡°When the choice is between being childless or IVF, there is no room for doubts. I was 43 when I had my kids and my biological clock had stopped ticking a long time ago.¡±

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3) Isha Ambani and Anand Piramal

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In a recent interview for Vogue magazine, Isha revealed how she and her husband Anand Piramal welcomed their twins, Aadiya and Krishna, through IVF in 2022. During the interview, she also highlighted the taboo and stigma that still persists around IVF and added, ¡°I¡¯m very quick to say that my twins were conceived via IVF because that¡¯s how we¡¯ll normalize it, right?¡±

4) Fardeen Khan and Natasha Madhwani

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Fardeen Khan recently made a comeback in the world of cinema after 14 years and during an interview shared the challenges he and his wife Natasha Mandhwani faced when trying to have kids and how they went down the IVF route. Fardeen also talked about how in 2011 the couple lost their six-month-old twins in one of their initial pregnancies before finally welcoming their daughter in 2013 and later went on to have a son in 2017.

5) Gurmeet Choudhary and Debina Bonnerjee

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Nearly 11 years after getting married, Gurmeet and Debina welcomed their first daughter Lianna through IVF in 2022. Sharing her pregnancy journey with fans through social media posts, Debinna shared how she initially started with Intrauterine insemination (IUI) and when that did not work the duo chose to go for IVF. Elaborating on her choice during an interview, Debinna stated," When people ask ¡®Why IVF transfer¡¯, I would say when something doesn¡¯t happen over a period of time, I can¡¯t waste time thinking why it is not happening. Rather I tried and after 5 years I was blessed with Lianna.¡±

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