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When and how to tell your child they were born through IVF

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IVF is not about creating a human in a lab; it’s just helping the egg and sperm to meet successfully.

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When Pamela Mactolo appeared on NTV’s Fixing the Nation on Feb 19, 2026, she didn’t expect the conversation to follow her home.

Later, seated with her two children, she tried to explain what many adults still struggle to understand about in vitro fertilisation (IVF).