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1 April 2020
What is a follicle and how many follicles do you need?
You might never have heard of ovarian follicles before, nor expected them to be of such importance to you and your fertility. However, follicles are perhaps one of the most intrinsic parts of a woman’s reproductive system, and how many follicles you have is often a straightforward way of determining how likely you could be… View Article
31 March 2020
Can you freeze eggs at 40? Advantages and disadvantages
The technology that allows for freezing of eggs rather than embryos has only been with us for a relatively short time, since 1986. During that brief period, egg freezing has increased dramatically, by around 460% in the six years from 2010 to 2016. Why is this? One simple answer is that in a world… View Article
27 March 2020
Different assisted reproduction techniques
From simple prayer and totemic rituals to ancient herbal remedies, spells and incantations, we humans have a long history of searching for a cure for infertility. Since the urge to procreate is one of life’s primal forces, this is not surprising. In the 21st century, although we may have moved on from magical concoctions… View Article
27 March 2020
Endometriosis: when your period paralyses your life
Endometriosis affects 10% of women and some of them are unaware of it Its symptoms include painful periods that become incapacitating on a day-to-day basis: missing school, being off work… It is a chronic disease, there is no cure, but its effects can be alleviated We know that we are in troubled times. Suddenly… View Article
24 March 2020
What is ovarian stimulation?
Every month as part of the regular menstrual cycle, a woman’s body naturally produces hormones which stimulate her ovaries to produce a single egg and to release it for its fertilization in the familiar process known as ovulation. In the context of assisted fertility treatments, various hormones are administered which either mimic or increase… View Article
24 March 2020
Is possible to be a single mother?
In today’s comparatively open and flexible social climate, the old-fashioned stigma which used to surround single mothers simply no longer exists. The concept of the nuclear family has changed in all sorts of ways so that now it is possible for more and more people to make conscious decisions about their lives and living arrangements,… View Article
18 March 2020
Coronavirus and Assisted Reproduction: Next steps
We continue to fight the spread of COVID-19 as we know best: with good judgement, common sense and always prioritizing the health and safety of our patients and society in general. And a fundamental factor in achieving this is information, the key to defining the best way to act and respond to the uncertainty that… View Article
10 March 2020
COVID-19: Coronavirus and pregnancy
Dr. Antonio Requena, general medical director of IVI, appeals for calm at the evolution of the coronavirus. The Lancet magazine published the first study between coronavirus and pregnancy: there is no evidence of mother-child infection. The spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) has generated a global social alert for different population groups, arousing in pregnant women… View Article
4 March 2020
How to interpret a pregnancy test: are there any false positives?
For anyone taking a pregnancy test, the results are bound to be important, and in some cases, life changing. Whatever your personal reason for taking a test, you need to know that you can interpret the result correctly and that you can rely on its accuracy. So how accurate are the sorts of tests that… View Article
27 February 2020
Similar birth weight between babies born via AR and by natural conception
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that every year more than 20 million babies are born weighing less than 2,500 grams, many of them coming into the world in developing countries. For many years it was believed that reproductive treatments were related to low birth weight babies, but a recent study carried out at IVI… View Article
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