Fertility

The age at which a woman can consider preserving fertility is from the age of 35, and some do so by freezing or vitrifying eggs. But what moves a woman to freeze her eggs? Now there is a study that focuses on these cases and provides interesting conclusions about it.

We can find several reasons that lead someone to want to be an egg donor or sperm donor, fundamentally having a knowledge about their own reproductive health, altruism and financial compensation. Precisely this last factor explains that with the crisis the donation of sperm and ovules has skyrocketed.

Would the birth rate and our way of planning maternity change anything if women knew their deadline to conceive? A new test has been developed that will indicate to women the age limit from which they will not be able to conceive a child. Thanks to a blood test that measures the hormones of the ovaries you can predict how many fertile years the woman has left.

Ovarian stimulation is a process that involves inducing multiple ovulation through hormonal medications, a process that is carried out to achieve assisted reproduction, either by artificial insemination or in vitro. In order for these techniques to proceed with a higher percentage of pregnancy chances, more than one oocyte is attempted per cycle, and thus be able to achieve in the uterus or transfer more than one embryo.

With the striking motto of "Do you have balls?" English authorities have launched a campaign to get more sperm donors. The phrase makes sense because it is going to be displayed primarily in sports clubs that use the balls for their team games. It is the athletes and fans of Manchester who are being the subject of this campaign that aims to help couples trying to conceive.

These days we have been talking about different methods to know what are the fertility days of women to try to get pregnant. It is a few days a month in which ovulation occurs, when the ovum is mature and ready to be fertilized. The basal temperature is one of the methods that can help us know when the fertile days are, which requires annotation for several cycles of the woman's temperature.

Cancer is a disease that due to its aggressive treatment can compromise the possibility of being a mother of the woman who suffers causing premature menopause. A new technique has brought hope to many women, as it has done with a 27-year-old Danish woman who has managed to be the mother of two babies after cancer.

If we already commented that obese women have more problems conceiving, new research ensures that obesity in men also hinders fertility. The proven fact is that the sperm of obese men tend to have less mobility than those of thinner men.

When we seek pregnancy, it is essential to know when the woman's fertile days are. There are different methods to approach those dates, and one of these methods is the basal temperature but, how to correctly take the basal temperature to know what my fertile days are? By controlling the basal temperature we will be able to detect ovulation and we will be able to know which are the most favorable days to achieve pregnancy.

We know that the use of marijuana during pregnancy seriously affects the health of the fetus, but also before pregnancy we should avoid using this drug if we are trying to stay in condition. Marijuana use reduces both male and female fertility. In the case of women, the frequent use of this drug in the long term could significantly increase the chances of infertilid due to menstrual problems.

Ovodonation recipients have in common the need to receive an egg from another woman in order to be mothers. To reach this point they have gone through a deep process of reflection and have decided to make this decision in order to fulfill their dream of being mothers. They will carry in their womb and give life to a child who will be their son in an unquestionable way both before the laws and in the heart.

Fertility restoration treatments for women who were diagnosed with cancer and wanted to have children once the disease was over are increasingly being used for other people, for the same purpose. These are women who, reached a certain age, want to ensure the possibility of having children later.

When a woman undergoes in vitro fertilization to fulfill her dream of being a mother, it is normal for her to feel worried, however the experts recommend controlling anxiety because it influences the success of the treatment. A study in Israel determined that women who cope better with stress during the process are almost twice as likely to get pregnant.

Low sperm quality is the most common fertility problem among men. Therefore, if you are looking for a baby it is important that the man take into account some tips to improve the quality of his sperm. The conception of a baby is a matter of two, in which both the reproductive health of women and that of men influence, for whose sperm the biological clock, stress and an unhealthy lifestyle also take their toll.

In this simple and pedagogical video the form and function of the female reproductive organs are taught. We already studied them in school, but it is not bad to give them a review and learn more about such an important part of our anatomy. The external part of the female reproductive organs is called vulva.

Stem cell research brings more and more hope to the medical field, and the case of assisted reproduction also seems to be included. As seen in the event of the meeting "Stem cells: another step in assisted reproduction", stem cells are a potential source for obtaining oocytes and sperm, thus acquiring a promising role in the field of reproductive medicine.

Mexican scientists say they are very close to getting a drug that would cause men to ejaculate without sperm, that is, a kind of birth control pill for men. It would be a revolution in the world of contraceptives and could change the history of birth control, even if we don't think that "change" has arrived.

According to a study by the University of California in San Francisco (United States), men who are sterile appear to have an increased risk of developing testicular cancer. The authors point out that infertility treatment is unlikely to be the risk factor, since assisted reproduction techniques are used instead of medical or surgical treatments in man.

Today, the Director General of Advanced Therapies and Transplants of the Ministry of Health announced that a Royal Decree is being prepared that will create a National Registry of donors of ovules and sperm, that is, of gametes. This record will be prepared in 2010 and will collect, with personal data, donors including the pregnancy rates achieved with their eggs and sperm.

The current pace of life, the delay in the time of having children, the decrease in semen quality and possibly some other factors cause between 15% and 18% of Spanish couples to have fertility problems. The passage of time and the failure to get a pregnancy lead many couples to opt for fertility treatments, however success is not assured and these are arduous and often unsuccessful.