Currently and due to different circumstances such as delayed childbearing, one in five couples find it difficult to achieve pregnancy through natural reproduction.
In these cases, it is advisable to carry out an evaluation of the couple to try to identify the cause of the difficulty.
Contrary to what was the case years ago and what many people think, the diagnostic evaluation has been greatly simplified and is completed in a maximum of two visits.
Effective treatment for infertility
Assisted reproductive treatment may be indicated at this time. Although there are many procedures, most of them are based on in vitro fertilization.
Basically, it consists in the stimulation of the ovaries (through a treatment that lasts between 10 and 12 days) after which oocytes are extracted and fertilized in the laboratory.
Finally, an embryo is transferred into the uterus (a very simple procedure, the discomfort of which is comparable to that of a cytology). The entire procedure is completed in two weeks. After another twelve days the woman will know if she has achieved pregnancy.
We are therefore talking about simplification of the diagnostic evaluation and more comfortable and, more importantly, more effective treatments. One of the pillars of such efficiency lies in the fact that the embryos obtained after in vitro fertilization are kept in special incubators (generically called “video-time lapse”) which allow, in addition to optimal growth conditions, exhaustive monitoring of embryonic development. That is why the most advanced centers with the best results have some of the video-time lapse systems currently available.
In addition to having the most advanced technology, it is important that the reproduction center has an advanced embryo preservation program that allows the transfer of embryos one at a time, avoiding one of the negative consequences of assisted reproduction such as multiple pregnancies.
Therefore, every couple should know the results of a center not in terms of pregnancy but in terms of healthy, full-term, singleton (singleton pregnancies).