On placement today, thanks to Iain my partner, I got to witness the coolest thing I've seen in a very long time. The picture above sorta gives a clue... It was SO amazing.

The chosen sperm was initially just swimming around (and yes, I saw it swim!! well, on the screen ofcourse magnified like a trillion times)

Then came this needle that rips off the flagella to stop it moving before sucking it up..

Then suddenly this blob of what I was told was the ovum appeared on screen. It was rotated a bit to get the right position then held in place by something (that huge looking thing on the right)

Then the needle with the sperm head in it came into view, pierces the ovum and then sperm head injected!

Then we wait..

It's amazing that with all this human technology, there's no guarantee that the egg will be fertilised even with the sperm nucleus obviously inserted in. We can just wait... and wait... for nature to run its course.. for Allah to permit that little egg to grow into a human being.. or not.

So whoever claimed that IVF is humans playing god, I don't think that's true. Human can do all we can but in the end, nothing will happen if God doesn't will it to happen. And that's that.