retrieving the eggs is called hyperstimulation. I only have a vague idea as to how this works. I think the doctor walks in, says “Coochie, coochie!,” and then she has like 40 eggs. (Sorry to get so technical.) The best way to explain the difference between natural pregnancy and in vitro fertilization is by looking at them like a junior high school dance.7 (Personally, I refuse to use the term middle school. It’s junior high, a junior version of senior high. It’s not middle school. There are no Hobbits