What is fertility treatment?
Many couples fail to conceive baby by having sex regularly. This could be due to infertility problems in male or female, which holds almost equal chances to occur.
Some fertility problems are easier to treat than others. In general, as a woman ages, especially after 35 years of age, her chances of getting pregnant keeps decreasing. But her risk of miscarriage goes up.
If you are 35 or older, your doctor may recommend that you to skip some of the steps younger couples usually take. That's because your chances of having a baby decrease with each passing year.
It's important to understand that even if you are able to get pregnant, no treatment can guarantee a healthy baby.
What are the treatments for fertility?
Treatments for fertility problems in women depend on the reason of infertility and sometimes the cause isn't known.
- MEDICINES OR DRUGS: Treatment may include taking medicine, such as:
Clomiphene. It stimulates your ovaries to release eggs.
Metformin. It's used to treat polycystic ovary syndrome.
- IVF: In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process by which an egg is fertilised by sperm outside the body: in vitro ("in glass"). The process involves monitoring and stimulating a woman's ovulatory process, removing an ovum or ova (egg or eggs) from the woman's ovaries and letting sperm fertilise them in a laboratory. The fertilised egg (zygote) is cultured for 2–6 days in a growth medium and is then transferred to the same or another woman's uterus, with the intention of establishing a successful pregnancy.
- IUI: Intrauterine insemination (IUI) is a fertility treatment that involves placing sperm inside a woman's uterus to facilitate fertilization.
- ICSI: Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is an in vitro fertilization procedure in which a single sperm is injected directly into an egg.
- IMSI: IMSI (Intracytoplasmic Morphological Sperm Injection) is a modification of the ICSI technique where sperm samples are examined under a microscope that is almost 6000 times more powerful to better assess their “morphology”. It assess the structure of the sperm and exclude the sperm with suspected abnormalities from being injected into the available eggs
- SURGICAL SPERM RETRIEVAL: When the release of sperm is prevented by a blockage in the vas deferens, or by a vasectomy, several techniques can be used to retrieve the large numbers of sperm that remain inside the testes.
Type of Technique:
- TESA (using needles or tubes)
- PESA (using needles or tubes)
- Perc biopsy (using needles or tubes)
- MESA (open surgical)
- EGG DONATION: Egg donation is the process by which a woman donates eggs to enable another woman to conceive as part of an assisted reproduction treatment. Egg donation typically involves in vitro fertilization technology
- SPERM DONATION: This involves using sperm from a donor to artificially inseminate a woman at the most fertile part of her cycle, so that she has a chance of getting pregnant
- SURROGACY: Surrogacy is an arrangement or agreement whereby a woman agrees to carry a pregnancy for another person or persons, who will become the newborn child's parent(s) after birth. It takes place when an embryo created by in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology is implanted in a surrogate, sometimes called a gestational carrier. Gestational surrogacy may take a number of forms, but in each form the resulting child is genetically unrelated to the surrogate.